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Adobe files Answer to Lyon’s consolidated complaint
Read more: Adobe files Answer to Lyon’s consolidated complaintAdobe filed its Answer to Lyon’s Consolidated Complaint. The suit relates to its small language model SlimLM. No surprises in the Answer. Adobe faces two other lawsuits, Tanzer and SEIU Pension Plan, related to its AI training. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE ANSWER:
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UMG Recordings seeks to file 2d Amended Complaint adding
Read more: UMG Recordings seeks to file 2d Amended Complaint addingUMG Recordings and Sony Music Entertainment are seeking leave to file a Second Amended Complaint to add 61,026 more works to the list of works Suno allegedly infringed, plus a claim for circumvention of technological protection measures under the DMCA, Section 1201. The plaintiffs contend they obtained relevant information of works infringed from discovery of…
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Hobbs v. Meta: book authors sue Meta’s former AI research scientists Joelle Pineau & Guillaume Lampler, in addition to Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
Read more: Hobbs v. Meta: book authors sue Meta’s former AI research scientists Joelle Pineau & Guillaume Lampler, in addition to Meta and Mark ZuckerbergWell, it was bound to happen. The 113th U.S. copyright lawsuit against an AI company now is going after the AI research scientists allegedly involved in the training of AI models. The only other one, Concord Music v. Anthropic II, at least was limited to co-founders of the company Anthropic, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann.…
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Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 112 (May 22, 2026)
Read more: Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI cos. Total = 112 (May 22, 2026)We added 12 lawsuits since our last map. We also reorganized some of the lawsuits in the Northern District of California, clustering some of them by defendants. DOWNLOAD THE PDF with links to each docket:
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Magistrate Judge Cisneros asks Midjourney to answer further questions, all redacted
Read more: Magistrate Judge Cisneros asks Midjourney to answer further questions, all redactedMagistrate Judge Cisneros has ordered Midjourney to answer further questions related to a discovery dispute in the lawsuit filed by Sarah Andersen. But all the questions are redacted from public view. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE ORDER
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Concord Music v. Anthropic I Second Amended Complaint after secondary liability claims dismissed with prejudice
Read more: Concord Music v. Anthropic I Second Amended Complaint after secondary liability claims dismissed with prejudiceConcord Music v. Anthropic I is in a temporary 90-day stay. Concord Music got its wishes in the voluntarily dismissal of its claims for contributory infringement and vicarious infringement. Now Concord Music filed its Second Amended Complaint, removing the secondary liability claims: Related Stories
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Suno sued again, this time by Poseidon Wave Media. 4th US suit and 6th suit worldwide.
Read more: Suno sued again, this time by Poseidon Wave Media. 4th US suit and 6th suit worldwide.Poseidon Wave Media filed a copyright suit against Suno on May 12, 2026. It raises a single claim of direct copyright infringement. The suit was filed by Garbarini Fitzgerald law firm in the Southern District of New York. Judge Castel has been assigned the case. It’s the 4th copyright suit against Suno in the United…
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Google opposes David Greene’s motion to remand case to state court
Read more: Google opposes David Greene’s motion to remand case to state courtGoogle opposes Dadid L. Greene’s motion to remand the case back to state court. Green alleges Google misappropriated and used recordings of his voice to train its Notebook LM model. Google argues Greene’s state law claims are equivalent to a copyright claim and preempted by the Copyright Act. DOWNLOAD GOOGLE’S OPPOSITION
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Courts set Aug. 20 hearing for Darius James’ motion for leave to file First Amended Complaint
Read more: Courts set Aug. 20 hearing for Darius James’ motion for leave to file First Amended ComplaintIn James v. Cerebras Systems, The Clerk has scheduled a hearing on August 20, 2026, at 2:00 PM in San Francisco, Courtroom 10, 19th Floor before Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin. James has asked the court leave to file a First Amended Complaint that adds a claim for contributory infringement related to Cerebras Systems’ alleged creation and…