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Elsevier v. Meta transferred to ND California and likely Judge Chhabria
Read more: Elsevier v. Meta transferred to ND California and likely Judge ChhabriaHere’s the newly filed complaint in Elsevier v. Meta, fresh from a transfer from the SDNY. Hobbs v. Meta is on its way, too. Both will likely be assigned to Judge Chhabria as related cases to the Kadrey cluster of cases. Complaint:
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Hobbs v. Meta also transferred to ND California, likely to Judge Chhabria
Read more: Hobbs v. Meta also transferred to ND California, likely to Judge ChhabriaFollowin the transfer of Elselvier v. Meta, Hobbs v. Meta is also being transferred to the Northern District of California, likely to Judge Chhabria. ORDER:
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Book authors dismiss claims against former Meta AI researchers Guillaume Lample, Joelle Pineau, who live outside US
Read more: Book authors dismiss claims against former Meta AI researchers Guillaume Lample, Joelle Pineau, who live outside USThe Hobbs book authors decided to drop their copyright claims against former Meta AI researchers Guillaume Lample and Joelle Pineau, who live outside the United States (France and Canada, respectively). Not worth the expense of trying to serve them with the complaint under the Hague Service Convention.
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Adding Hobbs v. Meta, latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 113
Read more: Adding Hobbs v. Meta, latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 113Whenever we share an updated map of the copyright suits against AI companies, another lawsuit is filed. Sure enough, yesterday, another book author suit was filed against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, similar to the Elsevier lawsuit. But this suit also names two former Meta research scientists, Joelle Pineau and Guillaume Lampler. This may be a…
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Hobbs v. Meta: book authors sue Meta’s former AI research scientists Joelle Pineau & Guillaume Lampler, in addition to Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
Read more: Hobbs v. Meta: book authors sue Meta’s former AI research scientists Joelle Pineau & Guillaume Lampler, in addition to Meta and Mark ZuckerbergWell, it was bound to happen. The 113th U.S. copyright lawsuit against an AI company now is going after the AI research scientists allegedly involved in the training of AI models. The only other one, Concord Music v. Anthropic II, at least was limited to co-founders of the company Anthropic, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann.…