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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,…
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Anthropic files motion to dismiss Concord Music’s first amended complaint
Read more: Anthropic files motion to dismiss Concord Music’s first amended complaintIn Concord Music v. Anthropic, Anthropic filed a motion to dismiss the First Amended Complaint. The hearing is set for July 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM in San Jose, Courtroom 7, 4th Floor before Judge Eumi K Lee.
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Parties in Concord Music v. Anthropic dispute sampling protocol for Claude prompts and outputs
Read more: Parties in Concord Music v. Anthropic dispute sampling protocol for Claude prompts and outputsInteresting battle over the sample size related to getting Claude prompts and outputs related to the music publishers’ copyrighted lyrics. Plaintiffs: “Publishers’ proposed 24.5-million-record sample will better allow the Parties to analyze both frequent and infrequent occurrences alike, ensuring any conclusions derived from the sample are more reliable and precise.” Anthopic: Proposes a random sample…
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Concord Music, Anthropic disagree over sealing parts of First Am. Complaint
Read more: Concord Music, Anthropic disagree over sealing parts of First Am. ComplaintThe parties in Concord Music v. Anthropic dispute whether parts of the First Amended Complaint should sealed. DOWNLOAD THE BRIEFS: