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Anthropic asks Judge Lee to stay Concord Music v. Anthropic II (involving Shadow Library Strategy) until she resolves key issues in Concord Music v. Anthropic I
Read more: Anthropic asks Judge Lee to stay Concord Music v. Anthropic II (involving Shadow Library Strategy) until she resolves key issues in Concord Music v. Anthropic IAnthropic is asking Judge Eumi Lee to stay Concord Music v. Anthropic II, which involves additional claims related to Anthropic’s alleged downloading (through torrenting) of content from shadow libraries, until the Judge resolves key issues in Concord Music v. Anthropic I. Concord Music had tried to amend the complaint in Anthropic I, but the Judge…
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Summary judgment, trial gets pushed back in Concord Music v. Anthropic. Next fair use decision in AI training might not be until Fall 2026
Read more: Summary judgment, trial gets pushed back in Concord Music v. Anthropic. Next fair use decision in AI training might not be until Fall 2026It will likely be well over a year since the fair use decisions of Judge Alsup and Judge Chhabria before we have another federal judge weigh in on fair use. Their decisions came on June. 23 and June 25, 2025, respectively. Judge Lee, upon the stipulation of the parties in Concord Music v. Anthropic, just…
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Will Judge Lee certify a class action v. Google in AI suit? Hearing on Feb. 20. Judge Lee stays discovery pending her decision.
Read more: Will Judge Lee certify a class action v. Google in AI suit? Hearing on Feb. 20. Judge Lee stays discovery pending her decision.Wow. Judge Lee has stayed discovery in In re Google Generative AI Litigation, pending her decision on class certification. The hearing on class certification is tomorrow, February 20, 1 PM PDT in San Jose federal court. Not to read too much into it, but the stay of discovery could be a good sign for Google.…
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Judge Lin gets assigned Concord Music v. Anthropic II for now. Other new cases assigned.
Read more: Judge Lin gets assigned Concord Music v. Anthropic II for now. Other new cases assigned.Some of the recent AI copyright lawsuits have been assigned. They are listed below. 1. Judge Rita F. Lin was assigned Concord Music Group v. Anthropic II. But there’s a pending motion for Judge Eumi Lee to consider relating the case to Concord Music v. Anthropic I. If Judge Lee does so, the second case…
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Judge Lee instructs Plaintiffs in AI copyright suit v. Google to define the proposed classes ahead of Feb. 20 class certification hearing
Read more: Judge Lee instructs Plaintiffs in AI copyright suit v. Google to define the proposed classes ahead of Feb. 20 class certification hearingJudge Lee wants the plaintiffs in In re Google Generative AI Litigation to provide the precise definition of the classes they are seeking certification of. Apparently, in their briefing, the plaintiffs have shifted the definition over the course of the litigation. The hearing is Feb. 20, 2026, 1 PM PDT in San Jose.
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Concord Music, Anthropic debate whether court should relate 2d lawsuit filed in 2026 to 1st lawsuit filed in 2024 with Judge Lee presiding
Read more: Concord Music, Anthropic debate whether court should relate 2d lawsuit filed in 2026 to 1st lawsuit filed in 2024 with Judge Lee presidingConcord Music Group and Anthropic have raised whetherConcord Music Group v. Anthropic II should be a related case to Concord Music Group v. Anthropic I. If Judge Lee deems the case related, the Concord Music Group II case would be assigned to her. She already presides over the first case. The irony is that Judge…
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Shadow Library Strategy strikes again: Concord Music & music publishers file 2d music suit v. Anthropic seeking more than $3 billion. Copyright lawsuit No. 76 v. AI cos.
Read more: Shadow Library Strategy strikes again: Concord Music & music publishers file 2d music suit v. Anthropic seeking more than $3 billion. Copyright lawsuit No. 76 v. AI cos.As news of Anthropic’s latest $10 billion funding round broke, with the company valued at $350 billion, Concord Music and a slew of other music publishers were finalizing their copyright lawsuit against Anthropic. In a statement to Billboard, the plaintiffs say they are seeking more than $3 billion from Anthropic. The complaint copies the Shadow…
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The shadowy allegations v. Google asserted by book authors, now publishers. Did Google use shadow libraries or not — when it has its own Google Books database?
Read more: The shadowy allegations v. Google asserted by book authors, now publishers. Did Google use shadow libraries or not — when it has its own Google Books database?As part of their motion to intervene, book publishers Cengage Learning and Hachette Book’s proposed complaint against Google alleges “Google first illegally copied Plaintiffs’ and the Class’s copyrighted books—downloading them from pirated sources and extracting them from behind legitimate paywalls—to amass a massive corpus of source material.” The nature of Google’s alleged downloading appears to…