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Status of all 20 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Mar. 22, 2024)

Here’s the latest on all 20 copyright lawsuits against AI companies. The wheels of justice turn slowly. Notable developments: Please visit our Master List of all lawsuits organized by jurisdictions. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. D. Del. Bibas Trial on the copyright issues…
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Joseph Saveri law firm files response to Sur-reply of Authors Guild Plaintiffs Opposing Tremblay Plaintiffs’ motion to intervene, dismiss, stay, or transfer actions

There is a turf battle between the Tremblay plaintiffs, who filed their copyright lawsuit in the Northern District of California, and the Authors Guild and Alter plaintiffs, who filed their copyright lawsuit in the Southern District of New York. The Tremblay plaintiffs, represented by the Joseph Saveri law firm, wants to intervene in the Authors…
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Status of all 20 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Mar. 15, 2024)

Here’s the latest status report of the copyright lawsuits against AI companies as of March 15, 2024. We have two new lawsuits brought by three book authors (Stewart O’Nan, Abdi Nazemian, and Brian Keene), one against Nvidia and the other against Mosaic ML and Databricks. That brings the total copyright lawsuits filed against AI companies…
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Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI (Mar. 12, 2024)

Here’s the latest status report of the copyright lawsuits against AI companies as of March 12, 2024. We have a new lawsuit against Nvidia brought by three book authors in Abdi Nazemian v. NVIDIA Corp. That brings the total lawsuits filed to 19, 18 of which are pending (Huckabee’s lawsuit was voluntary dismissed by stipulation).…
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Judge Martínez-Olguín rejects Plaintiffs’ motion in California case to enjoin OpenAI from defending different lawsuit in New York

The Joseph Saveri Law Firm, representing the book author plaintiffs in In re ChatGPT Litigation in the Northern District of California, filed a curious motion to enjoin OpenAI from defending itself in the different case, Authors Guild v. OpenAI, filed in the Southern District of New York. The Joseph Saveri Law Firm appeared to be…
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The Ultraman problem: China court rules AI company liable for infringing images of superhero

As reported by the Global Times, the Guangzhou Internet Court has ruled that an AI company that provided a text-to-image generator to paid subscribers was liable for copyright infringement based on the generation of the comic character Ultraman or similar figures. The AI generated images violated the reproduction and adaptation rights of the author. The…
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Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI (Feb. 29 , 2024)

Here’s the latest status report of the copyright lawsuits against AI companies as of Feb. 29, 2024. Highlights of this week: Also, please visit our Master List of all cases, which we just reorganized by juridisctions. Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI Cos. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH…
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OpenAI sued again, now by The Intercept, Raw Story, AlterNet. (Complaints)

The copyright lawsuits keep coming. This time, the Internet news sites Raw Story, AlterNet, and The Intercept have sued OpenAI in two lawsuits in the Southern District of New York. (First reported by The Daily Beast.) Very surprisingly, the two complaints allege only claims for removal of copyright management information under Section 1202 of the…
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Must reads: Timothy Lee, Grimmelmann, Sag on AI lawsuits; Samuelson on remedies, destruction of AI models

For those of you following the 16 copyright lawsuits against AI companies, including OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and Meta, plus several AI text-to-image generators, three very insightful articles were recently published by some of the leading copyright experts in the field. Timothy B. Lee and James Grimmelmann wrote an article in ars technica, provocatively titled: Why…
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Status of all copyright lawsuits v. AI (Feb. 18 , 2024)

Here’s the latest status report of the U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies as of Feb. 18, 2024. The biggest development was Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin’s granting in part OpenAI’s motion to dismiss the vicarious infringement claims, Section 1202 copyright management information claims, and some state law claims. Status of U.S. Copyright Lawsuits v. AI Cos.…
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