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Anthropic desperate to stave off waiver of attorney-client privilege
Read more: Anthropic desperate to stave off waiver of attorney-client privilegeAnthropic filed its reply to support its position that it has not waived its attorney-client privilege for any communications containing advice regarding the legality of downloading copies from shadow libraries. What seems apparent is that Anthropic switched from downloading from shadow libraries to scanning copies of books it purchased (a la Google Books project) based…
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Anthropic supported by amici briefs in 9th Circuit in request for interlocutory appeal of Judge Alsup’s class certification
Read more: Anthropic supported by amici briefs in 9th Circuit in request for interlocutory appeal of Judge Alsup’s class certificationAnthropic’s bid to convince the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to grant, under Fed. R. Civ. P. 23(f), an interlocutory appeal of Judge Alsup’s certification of a class action of potentially millions of books just received support from several groups. You can download the amici briefs below: AUTHORS ALLIANCE, ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION, ASSOCIATION OF RESEARCH…
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Anthropic files reply in support of motion for interlocutory appeal of Judge Alsup’s fair use decision and treatment of library building as a separate use
Read more: Anthropic files reply in support of motion for interlocutory appeal of Judge Alsup’s fair use decision and treatment of library building as a separate useAnthropic reply
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Anthropic seeks stay of class action suit by Bartz book authors as class action case marches to Dec. 1 trial
Read more: Anthropic seeks stay of class action suit by Bartz book authors as class action case marches to Dec. 1 trialAnthropic filed a motion to stay the class action lawsuit filed by Bartz book authors. Judge Alsup immediately set a briefing schedule: Although Anthropic cannot bank on Judge Alsup granting a stay of the case, with a trial date of Dec. 1, Anthropic will be able to file an interlocutory appeal under Federal Rule Civil…
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Bartz scores discovery victory v. Anthropic to get discovery of financial info for executives and Board Meetings re: pirated books
Read more: Bartz scores discovery victory v. Anthropic to get discovery of financial info for executives and Board Meetings re: pirated booksAt yesterday’s discovery hearing, as reported by Annelise Levy of Bloomberg Law, Judge Alsup ruled largely in favor of the plaintiff Bartz book authors: Judge Alsup referred the plaintiffs and a lawyer from OpenAI to Judge Stein in the MDL Litigation to request the production of OpenAI documents and testimony for this litigation. Judge Alsup…
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Bartz adds class action specialist Jallé H. Dafa to legal team
Read more: Bartz adds class action specialist Jallé H. Dafa to legal teamThe Bartz book authors have added Jallé H. Dafa of Lieff Cabraser to their legal team in anticipation of the Dec. 1st trial. Dafa is a partner in the San Francisco office and specializes in class-action litigation. Dafa graduated from Berkeley Law and clerked for Judge Corley in the Northern District of California and Judge…
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Bartz seeks to compel Anthropic to produce financial statements, revenue projections, and minutes of Board of Directors
Read more: Bartz seeks to compel Anthropic to produce financial statements, revenue projections, and minutes of Board of DirectorsThe Bartz book authors, buoyed by Judge Alsup’s certification of a class action, are now asking the Judge to compel Anthropic to produce Board of Directors’ minutes related to “Concern or Relate to Your training data; Your intention to commercialize, monetize, or productize Your LLMs; or projections regarding revenues or profits for particular products or…
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Claude agrees with ChatGPT: Anthropic faces very high probability of statutory damages over $1 billion
Read more: Claude agrees with ChatGPT: Anthropic faces very high probability of statutory damages over $1 billionWe ran the same Monte Carlo simulation using largely the same assumptions as we did with ChatGPT, although we did specify with Claude 6 million as the max for works (even though it can theoretically be some number under 7 million). The results, not surprisingly, nearly the same. ChatGPT probabilities of damages amount in Anthropic…
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Facing business-ending liability, Anthropic adds another attorney to defense team
Read more: Facing business-ending liability, Anthropic adds another attorney to defense teamAnthropic is in a legal fight for its very existence. In a code red moment, Anthropic hired 2 new law firms and 13 new trial attorneys to defend the company in 2 copyright lawsuits. The more dire situation is the class action of book authors filed by Bartz. After Judge Alsup certified a class of…
Category: Bartz v. Anthropic
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Claude agrees with ChatGPT: Anthropic faces very high probability of statutory damages over $1 billion
Read more: Claude agrees with ChatGPT: Anthropic faces very high probability of statutory damages over $1 billionWe ran the same Monte Carlo simulation using largely the same assumptions as we did with ChatGPT, although we did specify with Claude 6 million as the max for works (even though it can theoretically be some number under 7 million). The results, not surprisingly, nearly the same. ChatGPT probabilities of damages amount in Anthropic…