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Judge Chhabria denies Kadrey book authors’ motion to seek an interlocutory appeal of downloading part of ruling in fair use decision

Judge Chhabria denied the request of the Kadrey book authors to certify for interlocutory appeal to the Ninth Circuit the judge’s ruling on the initial downloading of copies of books used to train Meta’s AI models. The order states: The motion for leave to file an interlocutory appeal is denied. To be sure, the issue…
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Judge Chhabria will issue ruling on interlocutory appeal request of Kadrey without a hearing

Judge Chhabria vacated the July 16 hearing on Kadrey’s motion to certify for interlocutory appeal his ruling on Meta’s downloading of copies of books, which the judge treated as for the purpose to train Meta’s AI models. The court order says: “The Court will issue a written ruling based on the motion and responsive briefs.”
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AI copyright cases hit 125 on 250th birthday of United States. New infographic.

On the 250th birthday of the United States of America, the copyright lawsuits filed against AI companies hit 125. A fitting number. This number shows, not only that the U.S. is the global epicenter of copyright litigation against AI companies, but also that the United States is the land of litigation. To commemorate this moment,…
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Hugging Face open-source AI platform dragged into AI Copyright Wars in suit by EVOX Productions v. Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art. Suits hit 125 v. AI cos. in U.S. on its 250th birthday

The AI Copyright Wars are escalating. EVOX Productions, which has already sued Stanford University for the creation of the ImageNet dataset, has now turned its litigation attention to Hugging Face, the open-source platform for AI developers. Hugging Face’s alleged infringement includes: “the ‘Stanford Cars’ dataset, contains 8,144 images of automobiles for public download, including 225…
Read more: Hugging Face open-source AI platform dragged into AI Copyright Wars in suit by EVOX Productions v. Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art. Suits hit 125 v. AI cos. in U.S. on its 250th birthday
Michael Sullivan and textbook authors sue Mark Zuckerberg, Meta for copyright infringement

Meta just get hit with its 16th AI copyright lawsuit. Mark Zuckerberg was named, too. Zuckerberg is named in three such lawsuits: Elsevier, Hobbs, and this one. Michael Sullivan and other textbook authors have alleged similar allegations of torrenting and training with their copyrighted works as alleged in other book author lawsuits, including Kadrey v.…
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Suno sued again. 5th copyright suit in U.S. and 7th total worldwide.

Similar to its copyright suit filed against NVIDIA, S.A. Jamendo sued Suno for copyright infringement in its alleged use of Jamendo’s open-source music dataset. This is the 5th copyright suit against Suno in the United States and 7th worldwide. EXCERPT: * * * DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT: Related Story
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Daily News plaintiffs follow New York Times’ strategy in seeking to drop contributory infringement claims v. OpenAI and trademark dilution claims as well

The legal claims are dropping like hot potatoes in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation. The Daily News and other news plaintiffs are following the New York Times’ strategy in asking Judge Stein to allow them to abandon, with prejudice, their claims for contributory infringement against OpenAI, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in…
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New York Times abandons contributory infringement claim v. OpenAI in light of Supreme Court’s Cox decision

After OpenAI filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings that the New York Times could not meet the intent standard for contributory infringement set forth by the Supreme Court in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, we wrote: “OpenAI’s brief seems quite strong in its explanation of the Supreme Court’s decision in Cox.“ The New…
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35 Local & Regional Newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement. 26th suit v. OpenAI and 11th v. Microsoft.

35 local and regional newspaper publishers just sued OpenAI and Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement in the training of their AI models with content of plaintiffs scraped from the web. The Complaint alleges: (1) direct infringement, (2) vicarious infringement, and (3) DMCA CMI removal. Most likely, this lawsuit will be stayed pending the resolution of…
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Judge Anderson assigned Das v. Meta copyright suit in South Carolina

The just filed copyright lawsuit Das v. Meta has been assigned to Judge Joseph Anderson in the District of South Carolina, Columbia Division. Here is the docket.
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