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Judge Bibas sets pretrial conference for April 9 in Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence.

ORAL ORDER: The April 9 pretrial conference will take place beginning at 9 a.m. EDT in Wilmington, Delaware. I order the parties to confer and propose a joint stipulation and order setting pretrial deadlines by March 6 at 5 p.m. EST. Remark: The Pretrial Conference that is scheduled for April 9, 2025 at 9:00 am…
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Meta adds legal firepower to its AI defense: Supreme Court litigators Kannon Shanmugam, William T. Marks of Paul Weiss

Meta is adding Kannon K. Shanmugam and William T. Marks, Supreme Court litigators from Paul Weiss, to its defense team in the Kadrey book authors’ copyright lawsuit filed against Meta. Paul Weiss says: Kannon Shanmugan “has argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court, including 31 cases in private practice. He has also argued over 150…
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Meta submits final letter re: missed 18,000 documents in Kadrey suit

The Meta outside attorneys submitted a short letter telling Judge Chhabria that it is prepared to discuss the inadvertently sequestered 18,000 documents that it has now reviewed and produced where responsive. Judge Chhabria told the parties to be prepared to discuss this issue at the motion to dismiss hearing on February 27. At least on…
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Meta files reply to support motion to dismiss Kadrey complaint

After a tumultuous few weeks, Meta filed its reply to support its motion to dismiss the Kadrey book authors’ Third Amended Consolidated Complaint. Hearing before Judge Vince Chhabria is February 27, 2025.
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Status of all 39 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Feb. 18, 2025): Judge Bibas rejects fair use in AI training in stunning reversal.

It’s been a hot minute since our last update. Here’s the latest on all 39 copyright lawsuits against AI companies. New cases Significant rulings Upcoming Hearings Visit our Master List of all copyright cases with attorneys and claims listed. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence…
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei opposes deposition as non-party in book authors, Authors Guild suit

Dario Amodei, Anthropic CEO, has filed his opposition as a non-party to his deposition in the In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation as well as the Authors Guild suit against OpenAI. To download Amodei’s brief: Related Stories
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Calendar for Copyright Cases v. AI Companies

We finally had time to compile a master calendar for the copyright cases against AI companies to track the key hearings and other events in the cases. Here’s our calendar for the next 3 months. We will update if we find things we are missing. Download a PDF of this calendar:
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Adding Cohere lawsuit, updated Map of all 39 copyright suits v. AI

Download the PDF of all 39 copyright lawsuits against AI companies in the United States. The new lawsuit this week is Advance Local Media v. Cohere filed in the Southern District of New York. Related posts
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Boies attorneys allege “damning” documents of Meta related to illegal torrenting

We will soon find out if Judge Chhabria rules that the crime-fraud exception applies to attorney-client communications between Meta and Meta’s counsel regarding the downloading of the controversial LibGen dataset using torrenting. The David Boies law firm, representing the Kadrey book authors, alleges that they just received additional documents from the tranche of 18,000 documents…
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Cohere sued by Condé Nast, Atlantic, Forbes, Guardian, McClatchy, others. 39th copyright suit in U.S. v. AI companies.

Condé Nast, McClatchy, and other publishers sued Cohere, an AI company, for alleged copyright infringement in its training of its model and the outputs of its model. The complaint also alleges trademark infringement based on “hallucinated” outputs. The plaintiffs are: Advance Local Media LLC, Advance Magazine Publishers Inc. d/b/a Conde Nast, Forbes Media LLC, Guardian…
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