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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…
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Concord Music opposes Anthropic’s sealing request re 2 datasets and user prompts’ information
Read more: Concord Music opposes Anthropic’s sealing request re 2 datasets and user prompts’ informationConcord Music filed its opposition to Anthropic’s request to seal the names of 2 datasets it used to train its model Claude, and user prompt-related information.
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Anthropic’s Tempest in a Teapot: Concord Music asks judge to strike Olivia Chen declaration on statistical sampling due to AI-generated fake citation
Read more: Anthropic’s Tempest in a Teapot: Concord Music asks judge to strike Olivia Chen declaration on statistical sampling due to AI-generated fake citationA tempest in a teapot is brewing for Anthropic. After Concord Music called out the declaration of Anthropic’s data scientist Olivia Chen for including a citation to a source that doesn’t exist (based on the putative authors and the putative article title), Magistrate Judge Susan van Keulen ordered Anthropic to provide an explanation. Anthropic’s attorney,…
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Anthropic’s attorney from Latham: fictitious source was “an honest mistake” due to Latham’s using Claude to format the citations.
Read more: Anthropic’s attorney from Latham: fictitious source was “an honest mistake” due to Latham’s using Claude to format the citations.Ivana Dukanovic, an associate from Latham & Watkins, the attorney for Anthropic in the lawsuit filed by Concord Music, is taking the blame for the erroneous citation of an article that does not exist, to support the analysis of Anthropic’s own data scientist, Olivia Chen. That article was cited as [bold added to indicate the…
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Anthropic’s own data scientist submits declaration apparently with hallucinated citation. Oh my.
Read more: Anthropic’s own data scientist submits declaration apparently with hallucinated citation. Oh my.Apparently, the hallucinations keep rolling. At today’s discovery hearing in Concord Music v. Anthropic, the lawyer for the plaintiffs informed the court of their suspicion that Anthropic’s declaration on statistical sampling from their own data scientist Olivia Chen contained a citation to a fake source on p. 3, as highlighted below: According to Annelise Levy,…