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Suno sued again. This time by Gerencia 360 Music represented by same law firm as Round Hill Music
Read more: Suno sued again. This time by Gerencia 360 Music represented by same law firm as Round Hill MusicSuno just got sued again. Gerencia 360 Music filed a suit against Suno and Bright Data. This is the second AI copyright suit against Bright Data. Both Suno and Bright Data were sued last week by Round Hill Music, represented by the same law firms, Adams & Reese LLP and Skaggs Faucette. This is lawsuit…
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Daniel Benjamin Gilbert, pro se, ups ante in legal maneuvering v. Anthropic’s counterclaim. Gilbert unilaterally agrees not to sue Anthropic re: “training copies” except if from “pirated” source. Seeks partial dismissal of Anthropic’s counterclaim on fair use.
Read more: Daniel Benjamin Gilbert, pro se, ups ante in legal maneuvering v. Anthropic’s counterclaim. Gilbert unilaterally agrees not to sue Anthropic re: “training copies” except if from “pirated” source. Seeks partial dismissal of Anthropic’s counterclaim on fair use.Daniel Benjamin Gilbert, proceeding pro se in his suit against Anthropic, just upped the ante with a legal maneuver of his own. In response to Anthropic’s own maneuver of filing a counterclaim for a declaratory action of fair use against Gilbert above, Gilbert has unilaterally filed as an attachment to his answer to the counterclaim…
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Anthropic files amended Answer to Gilbert’s copyright complaint. Anthropic adds First Amendment defense & additional allegations for counterclaim of non-infringement based on fair use.
Read more: Anthropic files amended Answer to Gilbert’s copyright complaint. Anthropic adds First Amendment defense & additional allegations for counterclaim of non-infringement based on fair use.Anthropic just filed an Amended Answer to the complaint of Daniel Benjamin Gilbert, who opted out of the Bartz class settlement and who is the author of the book Hacking World of Warcraft. A lot of Anthropic’s Answer is standard fare for all the copyright litigation against AI companies. But I notice 2 significant differences…
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American Federation of Musicians drops its suit v. Warner, but not Universal Music Group
Read more: American Federation of Musicians drops its suit v. Warner, but not Universal Music GroupAmerican Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada dropped its lawsuit against Warner Music Group, but the case against Universal Music Group proceeds. Notice:
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Mark Zuckerberg will sit for 4 hour deposition in copyright suit
Read more: Mark Zuckerberg will sit for 4 hour deposition in copyright suitJudge Chhabria ruled that Mark Zuckerberg will sit for a 4 hour deposition in the cluster of copyright cases related to Kadrey. Meanwhile, Meta is on trial in the social media addiction lawsuit in Oakland before Judge Gonzalez Rogers. California and other states are seeking $200 billion from Meta. “Court clarified the amount of time…
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Anthropic sued again, this time by independent music publisher, label Round Hill Music. Total = 134 US suits v. AI cos.
Read more: Anthropic sued again, this time by independent music publisher, label Round Hill Music. Total = 134 US suits v. AI cos.Independent music publisher and record label Round Hill Music just sued Anthropic for copyright infringement for the alleged use of their musical compositions to train Anthropic AI models. The lawsuit was filed in the Northern District of California. This is the 12th copyright suit v. Anthropic and the 134th overall against AI companies in the…
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Disney attempts to salvage its contributory infringement claim v. Midjourney on inducement theory, post-Cox Communications
Read more: Disney attempts to salvage its contributory infringement claim v. Midjourney on inducement theory, post-Cox CommunicationsThe fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment continues. In response to Midjourney’s motion for a judgment on the pleadings that Disney’s contributory infringement claim based on “knowledge and material contribution” fails as a matter of law under Cox, Disney says its complaint also alleges an inducement theory that…
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Launch of BIPA Case Tracker, and Web Scraping & AI Agents Case Tracker
Read more: Launch of BIPA Case Tracker, and Web Scraping & AI Agents Case TrackerTo add to our portfolio of AI-related case trackers, we are launching today 2 new case trackers: We now have 6 AI case trackers. The other 4 trackers are below. You can find the links on the homepage and scrolling down. Looks like we’ve run out of AI cases to track.
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UMG Recordings asks to dismiss American Federation of Musicians’ complaint as foreclosed by the Sound Recording Labor Agreement
Read more: UMG Recordings asks to dismiss American Federation of Musicians’ complaint as foreclosed by the Sound Recording Labor AgreementFascinating dispute between the music labels and the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada over whether the musicians are entitled to compensation from the settlements struck thus far with AI companies. UMG Recordings says no based on the provisions of the Sound Recording Labor Agreement, at least UMG’s interpretation. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD…