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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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With WilmerHale at the helm, Anthropic opposes Concord Music’s request for extension of schedule
Read more: With WilmerHale at the helm, Anthropic opposes Concord Music’s request for extension of scheduleConcord Music is seeking to amend their complaint and extend the scheduling order. Concord Music is seeking to add a separate copyright infringement claim for Anthropic’s alleged use of shadow libraries. Concord Music is copying the winning strategy of the book authors, who secured a $1.5 billion class action settlement with Anthropic. With new law…
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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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Concord Music seeks 2 months extension of discovery in lawsuit v. Anthropic
Read more: Concord Music seeks 2 months extension of discovery in lawsuit v. AnthropicConcord Music is asking Judge Lee for a 2 months extension of discovery from the time she rules on the pending motion for leave to file a Second Amended Complaint to include allegations related to Anthropic’s torrenting files from shadow libraries. Anthropic opposes the extension. “Fact discovery is currently scheduled to close on Oct. 21,…
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Concord Music fact discovery closes in a month. Judge Van Keulen orders Concord Music to supplement disclosures re damages calcluation 7 days after discovery ends
Read more: Concord Music fact discovery closes in a month. Judge Van Keulen orders Concord Music to supplement disclosures re damages calcluation 7 days after discovery endsConcord Music’s case against Anthropic is humming along. Fact discovery closes in a month. Magistrate Judge van Keulen just ordered Concord Music to supplement its disclosures re: damages calculations 7 days after discovery closes. But she warns Anthropic to avoid gamesmanship and use common sense.
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Concord Music tries to use Bartz book author tactic to get discovery of BitTorrenting by Anthropic and file 2d amended complaint re: shadow libraries
Read more: Concord Music tries to use Bartz book author tactic to get discovery of BitTorrenting by Anthropic and file 2d amended complaint re: shadow librariesConcord Music is champing at the big (no pun intended) to be able to discover information related to Anthropic’s use of BitTorrenting to download copies of works from shadow libraries. There’s a pending motion for leave to add, in a proposed 2d amended complaint, a new theory of copyright infringement based on Anthropic’s alleged downloading…
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Judge Lee moves hearing on Anthropic’s motion to dismiss from Jul. 30 to Sept. 3
Read more: Judge Lee moves hearing on Anthropic’s motion to dismiss from Jul. 30 to Sept. 3Judge Lee just moved the hearing on Anthropic’s motion to dismiss the first amended complaint filed by music publishers from July 30 to Sept. 3, 10 AM in San Jose, Courtroom 7, 4th floor. Not a big deal but probably not the best of news for Anthropic, which is facing potentially existential liability in statutory…
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Code Red: Facing potential business-ending liability, Anthropic adds trial attorney Daralyn Durie & 6 attorneys from MoFo to defense team in Bartz. Plus, adds trial attorney Louis Tompros & 5 attorneys from Wilmer to defense v. Concord Music.
Read more: Code Red: Facing potential business-ending liability, Anthropic adds trial attorney Daralyn Durie & 6 attorneys from MoFo to defense team in Bartz. Plus, adds trial attorney Louis Tompros & 5 attorneys from Wilmer to defense v. Concord Music.It’s a code red at Anthropic. The company is fighting for its very existence now. Within 24 hours of Judge Alsup’s certification of a class of potentially several million works, Anthropic hired two new law firms, with teams of 13 new trial attorneys total, including prominent trial attorneys Daralyn Durie of Morrison Foerster and Louis…
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Magistrate Judge van Keulen grants Anthropic’s request to seal names of 2 datasets used to train Claude
Read more: Magistrate Judge van Keulen grants Anthropic’s request to seal names of 2 datasets used to train ClaudeAnthropic scored a big discovery victory last week. Magistrate Judge van Keulen granted Anthropic’s request to seal the names of 2 datasets it used to train its AI model, Claude. AI companies are guarding the names of the datasets they used to train like their crown jewels, especially after the copyright lawsuits started. Excerpt from…
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Magistrate Judge van Keulen strikes part of Anthropic’s Olivia Chen’s declaration that had AI-generated citation; it “undermines the overall credibility of Ms. Chen’s written declaration.”
Read more: Magistrate Judge van Keulen strikes part of Anthropic’s Olivia Chen’s declaration that had AI-generated citation; it “undermines the overall credibility of Ms. Chen’s written declaration.”In Concord Music v. Anthropic, Magistrate Judge van Keulen ruled on the parties’ dispute over several discovery items. The most controversial relates to the dispute over the amount of prompts and outputs that Anthropic must provide to respond to “Publishers’ requests for prompts and outputs from Claude products that relate to song lyrics, for which…