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Category: Bartz v. Anthropic

Anthropic seeks stay of class action suit by Bartz book authors as class action case marches to Dec. 1 trial

Anthropic 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

At 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

The 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

The 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

We 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

Anthropic 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…
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Will Anthropic suffer “Napster-like” fate? We asked ChatGPT.

More and more it looks like December 1, 2025 will be a day of reckoning for Anthropic. After Judge Alsup certified a class action of authors’ whose books were downloaded by Anthropic in 2 shadow libraries of pirated books (Library Genesis and PiLiMi), and after the judge ruled that such downloading and storage by Anthropic…
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Will a jury in SF decide Anthropic’s business fate? Most likely yes.

September 1 and December 1, 2025. These dates may determine Anthropic’s business fate. And, by business fate, I mean Anthropic’s continued existence. Some readers may think I’m being hyperbolic. I wish I were. But the grim reality is that Anthropic now faces a class action (subject to the plaintiffs’ meeting the condition of preparing a…
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Anthropic faces potential business-ending liability in statutory damages after Judge Alsup certifies class action by Bartz

In practical terms, what class certification means is that Anthropic faces at least the potential for business-ending liability. It all depends on the number of works within the class (yet to be determined by the plaintiffs in compiling its list, as Judge Alsup instructed). But it also depends on the figure the jury picks within…
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Anthropic files motion to seek leave to file interlocutory appeal of Judge Alsup’s partial summary judgment

Here’s the entry on the docket: ENTRY FILED DESCRIPTION 241 Jul. 14, 2025 MOTION for Leave to Appeal Pursuant to 28 USC 1292(b), or in the Alternative, For Leave to Move for Reconsideration filed by Anthropic PBC. Motion Hearing set for 8/28/2025 08:00 AM in San Francisco, Courtroom 12, 19th Floor before Judge William Alsup.…
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