Category: Judge Chhabria

With summary judgment pending, Kadrey, Bartz plaintiffs cite Pre-Publication version of Copyright Office Report on fair use and AI training as Supplemental Authority, despite its non-final status.

Wasting no time, the book author plaintiffs in the two copyright lawsuits with summary judgment motions on fair use pending, Kadrey v. Meta and Bartz v. Anthropic, have now cited the Pre-Publication version of the U.S. Copyright Office’s Report on AI training and fair use as Supplemental Authority. The Kadrey plaintiffs even cite to another…
Read more: With summary judgment pending, Kadrey, Bartz plaintiffs cite Pre-Publication version of Copyright Office Report on fair use and AI training as Supplemental Authority, despite its non-final status.
At hearing before Judge Chhabria, Meta appeared one step away from prevailing on fair use defense

On May 1, 2025, Judge Vincent Chhabria held a hearing on the respective summary judgment motions of the parties in Kadrey v. Meta, a copyright infringement suit brought by book authors against Meta. If there’s one AI lawsuit to watch, this is it. Forget about the New York Times’ case, at least for now. The…
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Today Judge Chhabria is the most important judge in the AI copyright lawsuits

With dueling summary judgment motions on illegal file sharing and fair use fully briefed, Judge Vince Chhabria is today the most important federal judge in all of the 41 lawsuits against AI companies in the United States. Given the timing, Judge Chhabria is poised to be the first federal judge to make a ruling on…
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Expressing skepticism of both sides’ arguments, Judge Chhabria poses 12 Questions on fair use & pirated books

Ahead of Thursday’s hearing on the summary judgment motions, Judge Chhabria issued an order at 3 PM PT for the parties’ lawyers to be prepared to answer. These are all excellent questions–showing the Judge has dissected the parties’ arguments with probing scrutiny. If I were a lawyer doing the argument, I would not be getting…
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Judge Chhabria orders unsealing of Meta financial spending & projections re AI

Today, we will get to see Meta’s financial information related to spending and projections on AI related revenue. Judge Chhabria just ordered the unsealing of that information, although he has allowed the parties to keep sealed the “names of other parties engaged in licensing deals” with Meta or with which Meta was negotiating such deals.…
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Kadrey objects to Meta’s reply evidence as improper

Kadrey objected to Meta’s reply evidence cited in its reply brief. Related Stories
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Meta reply in support of fair use in AI training, including torrenting of “pirated” books datasets. Meta also opposes Kadrey book authors’ motion for summary judgment on infringement based on torrenting books.

Meta filed its reply in support of its motion for summary judgment on fair use in AI training, including the torrenting of “pirated” copies of books datasets online. This brief is well-written. Will have more to say about it and Kadrey’s briefs, also well-written, in a subsequent post. Judge Chhabria will have much to ruminate…
Read more: Meta reply in support of fair use in AI training, including torrenting of “pirated” books datasets. Meta also opposes Kadrey book authors’ motion for summary judgment on infringement based on torrenting books.
Kadrey files unredacted opposition brief to Meta’s motion for summary judgment on fair use. Kadrey alleges Meta destroyed torrenting upload logs related to torrenting of pirated books datasets.

Kadrey filed the unredacted opposition brief to Meta’s motion for summary judgment on fair use. Among the sentences unredacted were ones about the books datasets excerpted below. One new revelation is that Meta apparently destroyed (through allowing overwriting of logs) the files that were seeded to third parties during the process of torrenting of the…
Read more: Kadrey files unredacted opposition brief to Meta’s motion for summary judgment on fair use. Kadrey alleges Meta destroyed torrenting upload logs related to torrenting of pirated books datasets.
Copyright Alliance, American Publishers Assn. file amicus briefs v. Meta, to support Kadrey book authors

Two other organizations filed amicus briefs against Meta to support the Kadrey book authors. Both the Copyright Alliance and American Publishers Association filed briefs, bringing the total on the side of the Kadrey book authors to 4 amici compared to only 2 amici on Meta’s side. If we focus on the total extra pages of…
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Amicus Int’l Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers blasts Meta for file sharing stolen books from notorious “illegal websites”

Ten days ago, Harvard Law Professor Rebecca Tushnet filed an amicus brief on behalf of her and other copyright scholars in support of Meta’s defense of fair use in Kadrey v. Meta. That opened the door to other amicus briefs to be filed. After Tushnet’s motion for leave to file an amicus brief, Judge Chhabria…
Read more: Amicus Int’l Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers blasts Meta for file sharing stolen books from notorious “illegal websites”