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John Carreyrou, book authors file copyright suit v. entire AI industry: Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI (of Elon Musk), and Perplexity. Copyright suits hit 70. (Could have been 75.)

John Carreyrou and 5 other book authors (Lisa Barretta, Philip Shishkin, Jane Adams, Matthew Sacks, and Michael Kochin) ho opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic with the encouragement of ClaimsHero, an Arizona-based law firm that has specialized in claims aggregation, have filed today a copyright lawsuit against nearly the entire U.S. AI industry: The…
Read more: John Carreyrou, book authors file copyright suit v. entire AI industry: Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI (of Elon Musk), and Perplexity. Copyright suits hit 70. (Could have been 75.)
Judge Alsup finds major flaws with Bartz Class Website, “steered away from opting out” with no button to opt out. Court orders class website IMMEDIATELY disabled until fixes made.

Late Thursday night, Judge Alsup issued his third order on the Bartz class notice. The order is the most scathing critique of the Bartz class’s process for class members. Judge Alsup found that (1) the class website lacks a button for class members to opt out while presenting a button to file a claim for…
Read more: Judge Alsup finds major flaws with Bartz Class Website, “steered away from opting out” with no button to opt out. Court orders class website IMMEDIATELY disabled until fixes made.
Judge Alsup orders all parties and enlisted class help including Association of American Publishers, Authors Guild to preserve all communications re opt out, claims to class members

Just when Bartz book authors’ Class Counsel prevailed in securing an interim order against ClaimsHero from making misleading overtures to members of the class to opt out, Class Counsel may have inflamed a new controversy over the opt out process. ClaimsHero has modified its website as Judge Alsup ordered. But, on Sunday, Judge Alsup raised…
Read more: Judge Alsup orders all parties and enlisted class help including Association of American Publishers, Authors Guild to preserve all communications re opt out, claims to class members
ClaimsHero modifies webpage for Anthropic case to comply with Judge Alsup’s interim order

I found the revised webpage for the Anthropic case on ClaimHero’s website: Let’s how it complies with Judge Alsup’s interim order below:
Read more: ClaimsHero modifies webpage for Anthropic case to comply with Judge Alsup’s interim order
Bartz Class Counsel answers Judge Alsup’s questions about opt out timing and process

Bartz Class Counsel filed an answer to Judge Alsup’s request for information and concern about the early opt out process before class notice has been sent. Class Counsel says: (1) “The answer is Section 2 of the Plan of Allocation and Distribution (POA&D), Dkt. 401-1. That section expressly provides that ‘[o]pt-out requests and Claim Forms…
Read more: Bartz Class Counsel answers Judge Alsup’s questions about opt out timing and process
Judge Alsup raises new concerns about class members filing claims for 60,000 works before (i) direct notice and (ii) claims form lacking info on right to opt out. Asks Bartz Class Counsel if they informed court many class claims would occur before direct notice sent.

Judge Alsup issued an order Sunday afternoon expressing more concerns with how Bartz Class Counsel has implemented the claims process for people within the class. Today’s concern is with how already 60,000 works in the class, or over 12%, have been subject to claims. Usually that decent percentage of class participation would be a positive…
Read more: Judge Alsup raises new concerns about class members filing claims for 60,000 works before (i) direct notice and (ii) claims form lacking info on right to opt out. Asks Bartz Class Counsel if they informed court many class claims would occur before direct notice sent.
Judge Alsup blasts ClaimsHero attempt to “trick” class authors to opt out in “a fraud of immense proportions.” Warns of case referral to the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Things went horribly for Devin “Velvel” Freedman, counsel for ClaimsHero at today’s hearing. As we predicted before the hearing, things woulldn’t–and didn’t–end well for ClaimsHero. From the start of ClaimsHero’s argument, Judge Alsup excoriated Freedman, a lawyer from Freedman Normand Friedland LLP, for ClaimsHero’s “misleading” interference with the claims and opt out process approved by…
Read more: Judge Alsup blasts ClaimsHero attempt to “trick” class authors to opt out in “a fraud of immense proportions.” Warns of case referral to the U.S. Attorney’s office.
ClaimsHero offers vigorous defense of its overtures to Bartz class members. Disputes Bartz Class Counsel’s allegations.

ClaimsHero, an Arizona law firm that specializes in aggregating claims for class actions, gave a full-throated defense of its overtures to Bartz class members who potentially choose to opt out of the class recovery and pursue their own claims against Anthropic separately. When the Bartz Class Counsel had contacted ClaimsHero about Class Counsel’s concerns with…
Read more: ClaimsHero offers vigorous defense of its overtures to Bartz class members. Disputes Bartz Class Counsel’s allegations.
Anthropic agrees with Bartz’s motion to limit ClaimsHero’s overtures to class members. Anthropic also suggests ClaimsHero is using Anthropic’s trademarks in way likely to cause confusion.

As invited by Judge Alsup, Anthropic has officially weighed in on the controversy brewing over a third-party firm named ClaimsHero’s overtures to Bartz class members. For more about this controversy, visit here: Anthropic agrees with Bartz book authors that the court should issue an order limiting ClaimsHero’s overtures to class members (apparently seeking to represent…
Read more: Anthropic agrees with Bartz’s motion to limit ClaimsHero’s overtures to class members. Anthropic also suggests ClaimsHero is using Anthropic’s trademarks in way likely to cause confusion.
Judge Alsup denies and criticizes Bartz book authors’ Counsel for changes to class notice. Also denies Theodore Cheng as special master, finding his $1K per hour rate too high.

The Bartz v. Anthropic copyright lawsuit has faced more twists and turns than Odysseus. After Judge Alsup preliminarily approved the historic $1.5 billion class settlement (only after declining to approve it due to concerns the Judge raised at the first hearing), the claims process seemed to be moving along swimmingly. Bartz Class Counsel’s “Status Report”…
Read more: Judge Alsup denies and criticizes Bartz book authors’ Counsel for changes to class notice. Also denies Theodore Cheng as special master, finding his $1K per hour rate too high.

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