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No Bartz II. Judge Lee rejects Concord Music’s request to amend complaint to add Bartz-style piracy claim based on bittorrenting from shadow libraries
Read more: No Bartz II. Judge Lee rejects Concord Music’s request to amend complaint to add Bartz-style piracy claim based on bittorrenting from shadow librariesJudge Eumi Lee denied Concord Music’s request to amend the complaint to add a new claim of copyright infringement based on Anthropic’s alleged bittorenting of files of their musical works allegedly from shadow libraries. Concord Music alleged, in its motion, that Anthropic’s bittorrenting involving downloading fit within its existing claims of willful infringement, while it…
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Status of all 51 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 8, 2025): no more decisions on fair use in 2025.
Read more: Status of all 51 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 8, 2025): no more decisions on fair use in 2025.It’s been a hot minute since our last status report. Right now, we are in the doldrums of discovery. We do not expect any other summary judgment decisions on fair use in AI training until summer 2026 at the earliest. So far, 3 judges ruled on fair use, 2 for and 1 against. But their…
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Judge Lee rejects Anthropic’s motion to dismiss parts of Concord Music’s complaint
Read more: Judge Lee rejects Anthropic’s motion to dismiss parts of Concord Music’s complaintNo surprise: Judge Lee rejected Anthropic’s motion to dismiss parts of Concord Music’s First Amended Complaint. Judge Lee will decide whether to grant Concord Music’s motion for leave to file a Second Amended Complaint to add DMCA anti-circumvention claim for Anthropic’s alleged “stream ripping” of music tracks from YouTube videos. 1. Contributory infringement: As described…
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Should Concord Music be able to add shadow libraries claim to suit v. Anthropic. Judge Lee sets hearing for Oct. 8
Read more: Should Concord Music be able to add shadow libraries claim to suit v. Anthropic. Judge Lee sets hearing for Oct. 8Judge Lee set a hearing on Concord Music’s motion for Leave to File Second Amended Complaint and Modify Scheduling Order. The hearing is set for Oct. 8, 2025, at 11:00 AM in San Jose, Courtroom 7, 4th Floor.
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Microsoft partners w/ Anthropic to hedge bets w/ OpenAI
Read more: Microsoft partners w/ Anthropic to hedge bets w/ OpenAIIn 2023, Microsoft launched its Co-Pilot with OpenAI’s models and appeared to take a lead over Google in AI. Today, that lead has evaporated. And now Microsoft is hedging its bets with OpenAI and striking a deal with Anthropic. If the AI arms race doesn’t become a Netflix series, a big fail.
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Will Anthropic’s announced settlement of book authors’ class action copyright suit have domino effect on other lawsuits? Reasons yes and no.
Read more: Will Anthropic’s announced settlement of book authors’ class action copyright suit have domino effect on other lawsuits? Reasons yes and no.After two and a half years since the first lawsuit against AI companies was filed in January 2023, we had in 1 week the first 2 announced settlements (pending court approval). First, the parties in the copyright suit filed by voice actors Vacker against ElevenLabs announced a settlement after mediation (the role of ADR we…
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Bartz book authors gear up for class action trial v. Anthropic. Add legal firepower and ask Judge Alsup to approve class notice.
Read more: Bartz book authors gear up for class action trial v. Anthropic. Add legal firepower and ask Judge Alsup to approve class notice.The Bartz book author plaintiffs are trying to strike while the iron is hot. They added more legal firepower to their team including Samuel Issacharoff, the Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of Constitutional Law at the New York University School of Law and the reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of Aggregate Litigation, who…