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Meta says Kadrey’s motion to certify downloading ruling doesn’t meet standard for interlocutory appeal

Meta has filed its opposition to the book authors Kadrey’s motion asking Judge Chhabria to certify his ruling on Meta’s downloading of book copies from so-called shadow libraries for an interlocutory appeal to the Ninth Circuit. Meta says Kadrey has not met the requirements for an interlocutory appeal. Excerpts: DOWNLOAD’S META’S OPPOSITION Related Story
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Parallel litigation in 100-plus copyright suits v. AI companies produces litigation quagmire. Resolution looks far off.

Today, we are launching the AI Status Copyright Cases Tracker. It depicts all 118 copyright lawsuits against AI companies in the United States by the stage of litigation: pre-discovery, discovery, summary judgment, interlocutory and direct appeals, and Supreme Court. It also depicts how the same AI companies are commonly facing multiple lawsuits filed by different…
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Magistrate Judge Richlin mostly denies Midjourney’s motion to compel discovery re: Disney’s own use or development of AI and prompts used to generate examples from Midjourney not used in Complaint

Magistrate Judge Richlin mostly denied Midjourney’s attempt to get discovery of Disney’s own use or development of AI. Judge Richlin found such use irrelevant to Midjourney’s fair use defense, citing a similar ruling in the In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation. The judge also ruled that Disney’s prompts used to generate allegedly infringing outputs on…
Read more: Magistrate Judge Richlin mostly denies Midjourney’s motion to compel discovery re: Disney’s own use or development of AI and prompts used to generate examples from Midjourney not used in Complaint
Shakespeare sues Anthropic & Dario Amodei for copyright infringement. New suit filed by 100 authors. Plaintiffs seek up to $71.4 million from Anthropic.

As Anthropic’s valuation as a company grows so do the number of copyright lawsuits against it. Today, Thomas William Shakespeare from London, along with 99 other authors, sued Anthropic, CEO Dario Amodei, and co-founder Benjamin Mann in the Northern District of California. All 100 authors allegedly opted out of the Bartz class settlement (with Laura…
Read more: Shakespeare sues Anthropic & Dario Amodei for copyright infringement. New suit filed by 100 authors. Plaintiffs seek up to $71.4 million from Anthropic.
Book publishers sue WeLib, “a free digital library platform offering over 43 million books and 98 million academic papers”

After getting a default judgment against Anna’s Archive, Apress Media and other big book publishers are suing WeLib, “a free digital library platform offering over 43 million books and 98 million academic papers.” This is copyright lawsuit No. 116. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT:
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Proposed-Intervenor Dr. Kenneth Saladin loses bid to intervene in Elsevier v. Meta to represent subclass of textbook authors v. publishers

Judge Castel denied, without prejudice and subject to a possible renewed motion when class certification is considered, the motion of Proposed-Intervenor Dr. Kenneth Saladin, a distinguished professor emeritus of biology at Georgia College & State University. Saladin proposed to represent a subclass of textbook authors in the copyright suit mainly publishers filed against Meta and Mark…
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UMG Recordings files reply in support of leave to file 2d Amended Complaint v. Suno

UMG Recordings filed its reply in support of its motion for leave to file a Second Amended Complaint, adding more than 60,000 works to the scope of the copyright infringement claim. Suno’s opposition is here: The case is before Judge Saylor in the District of Massachusetts. Excerpt of UMG Recordings’ reply: DOWNLOAD THE REPLY OF…
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New York Times’ contributory infringement claims fails under Supreme Court’s standard set forth in Cox Communications, says OpenAI

The Supreme Court’s recent clarification in Cox Communication v. Sony Music Entertainment that claims for contributory infringement under copyright law requires proof of intentional conduct by a provider of a service has now entered the picture in one of the most important set of cases, In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation. As we predicted, Cox…
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Audio of Oral argument in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence

Today the Third Circuit heard oral argument in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence. Here is the audio: Related Story:
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Kadrey asks Judge Chhabria to certify for interlocutory appeal to 9th Circuit the Judge’s 2025 summary judgment re: Meta’s downloading from shadow libraries for the purpose of AI training

As they indicated at a recent hearing, the Kadrey plaintiffs are asking Judge Chhabria to certify a part of his June 2025 partial summary judgment order. At the hearing, Judge Chhabria said they can file a motion and he’d consider it, but cautioned that the 9th Circuit seldom grants interlocutory appeal. Kadrey presents this question…
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