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With summary judgment pending, Kadrey, Bartz plaintiffs cite Pre-Publication version of Copyright Office Report on fair use and AI training as Supplemental Authority, despite its non-final status.
Read more: With summary judgment pending, Kadrey, Bartz plaintiffs cite Pre-Publication version of Copyright Office Report on fair use and AI training as Supplemental Authority, despite its non-final status.Wasting no time, the book author plaintiffs in the two copyright lawsuits with summary judgment motions on fair use pending, Kadrey v. Meta and Bartz v. Anthropic, have now cited the Pre-Publication version of the U.S. Copyright Office’s Report on AI training and fair use as Supplemental Authority. The Kadrey plaintiffs even cite to another…
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Bartz book authors oppose Anthropic’s summary judgment motion on fair use, citing Anthropic’s downloading pirated books
Read more: Bartz book authors oppose Anthropic’s summary judgment motion on fair use, citing Anthropic’s downloading pirated booksThe Bartz book authors filed their opposition to Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment on fair use. Like the Kadrey book author plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Meta, the Bartz book authors argue that the downloading of digital copies of “pirated” books from illegal online sources is a separate use by Anthropic that cannot be fair…
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Anthropic challenges class certification in heavily redacted brief concealing information related to datasets used
Read more: Anthropic challenges class certification in heavily redacted brief concealing information related to datasets usedOn April 17, Anthropic filed its opposition to the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification. A large portion of Anthropic’s brief is redacted. One intriguing argument by Anthropic is that the plaintiffs cannot identify a class due to the inability to ascertain whose books were used by Anthropic in their books datasets. The plaintiffs are proposing…
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Anthropic asks Judge Alsup to seal parts of hearing transcript related to training datasets used by Anthropic
Read more: Anthropic asks Judge Alsup to seal parts of hearing transcript related to training datasets used by AnthropicAnthropic is seeking to seal parts of the discovery hearing transcript related to the training datasets Anthropic used. Explains Anthropic: “As set forth in the Gillotte Sealing Declaration, the information that Anthropic seeks to redact reveals the name, source and contents of Anthropic’s datasets for Anthropic’s non- commercial and commercial models of Claude. (Gillotte Sealing…
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Judge Alsup ask parties to address 5 hypothetical cases probing whether fair use analysis is affected by pirated book
Read more: Judge Alsup ask parties to address 5 hypothetical cases probing whether fair use analysis is affected by pirated bookJudge Alsup has asked the parties in Bartz v. Anthropic to address 5 hypothetical cases. These questions appear to be testing whether the fair use analysis is affected if the source of the work used by the defendant is a pirated source, in Judge Alsup’s Case 2, the “notorious counterfeiter knowns as Books ‘R” Cheap.…
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Anthropic files summary judgment motion on fair use in case by Bartz and other writers
Read more: Anthropic files summary judgment motion on fair use in case by Bartz and other writersIn addition to Meta’s motion for partial summary judgment on fair use, we now have a second motion, this one brought by Anthropic, in the lawsuit filed by Andrea Bartz and other writers. Here’s a preview of the arguments by Anthropic: Download the brief below: Related Stories:
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Judge Alsup changes scheduling order, but makes fair use summary judgment motion simultaneous with motion for class certification.
Read more: Judge Alsup changes scheduling order, but makes fair use summary judgment motion simultaneous with motion for class certification.Judge Alsup granted in part the defendant Anthropic’s request to alter the scheduling order, but rejected its request to make the summary judgment motion on fair use defense come before the potential class certification. Instead, Judge Alsup made them simultaneous: “Court ordered the following deadlines, modifying 49 Case Management Scheduling Order:Motion for Class Certification, opening…
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Bartz v. Anthropic battle over change to scheduling order, whether fair use should be decided before class certification
Read more: Bartz v. Anthropic battle over change to scheduling order, whether fair use should be decided before class certificationJudge Alsup is holding a hearing today to consider Anthropic’s motion to change the scheduling order to consider fair use before any certification of a class. That sounds like a logical sequence, but we will have to wait and see how Judge Alsup rules because he apparently was originally against it.
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Judge Alsup to hear arguments re changing scheduling order to hear fair use before class certification in Bartz v. Anthropic
Read more: Judge Alsup to hear arguments re changing scheduling order to hear fair use before class certification in Bartz v. AnthropicJudge Alsup instructed the parties to be prepared to discuss changing the scheduling as requested by the defendant Anthropic at the hearing at 10:30 A.M., February 25, 2025 in Courtroom 12 in San Francisco.
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Bartz, Anthropic propose order re: discovery of training data
Read more: Bartz, Anthropic propose order re: discovery of training dataHere’s the proposed order (by joint stipulation of the parties in Bartz v. Anthropic) on how the training data and source code should be made accessible during discovery.