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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…
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Briefing on class certification complete in Google AI case. Huge issue for hearing on Feb. 4 before Judge Lee.
Read more: Briefing on class certification complete in Google AI case. Huge issue for hearing on Feb. 4 before Judge Lee.The Plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Google recently filed their reply in support of class certification. Outside of summary judgment, there’s no more important issue in the proposed class action lawsuits against AI companies than class certification. The hearing is set for February 4, before Judge Eumi Lee. Past briefing: (1) Plaintiffs Motion for Class…
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Plaintiffs seek to exclude William Patry’s expert testimony on issues relevant to class certification in Google AI suit
Read more: Plaintiffs seek to exclude William Patry’s expert testimony on issues relevant to class certification in Google AI suitPlaintiffs are seeking to exclude the expert testimony of two experts proffered by Google: William Patry and Ryan Sullivan. Of course, as Plaintiffs say, “Patry formerly served as Google’s Senior Copyright Counsel for over 17 years and now works at Quinn Emanuel, where he represents other large technology companies in litigation involving the use of…
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Magistrate Judge van Keulen issues order re: expert reports in Concord Music v. Anthropic
Read more: Magistrate Judge van Keulen issues order re: expert reports in Concord Music v. AnthropicThe Concord Music v. Anthropic is marching along. Magistrate Judge van Keulen just issued the order governing expert reports. All eyes will be on this case as it most likely will present the next opportunity for a judge to rule on fair use in AI training. Judge Lee presides.
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Anthropic reply re: protective order
Read more: Anthropic reply re: protective orderAnthropic filed its reply in the Concord Music lawsuit in support of its motion for clarification of the protective order. Related Stories
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Should Anthropic get discovery of Concord Music’s investigatory prompts and outputs it generated on Claude? Seems relevant to normal use of Claude and its guardrails
Read more: Should Anthropic get discovery of Concord Music’s investigatory prompts and outputs it generated on Claude? Seems relevant to normal use of Claude and its guardrailsAn important discovery dispute is brewing in Concord Music v. Anthropic. Anthropic is seeking discovery of the prompts Concord Music used to investigate for potentially infringing outputs, plus the outputs Concord derived. “Because Publishers’ contentions can only be properly tested and rebutted with a granular understanding of their undisclosed prompts and outputs, Anthropic, Judge Lee,…
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Google aggressively seeks sanctions v. Plaintiffs in AI lawsuit for allegedly shifting alleged class involved again
Read more: Google aggressively seeks sanctions v. Plaintiffs in AI lawsuit for allegedly shifting alleged class involved againGoogle is seeking sanctions against the plaintiffs in the In re Google Generative AI Litigation. Google alleges that the plaintiffs are now belatedly changing their definitions of the class for the potential class action lawsuit, after already once having Judge Lee strike their “fail-safe” class definition. Google says it will seek to strike the class…