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David L. Greene opposes Google’s motion to dismiss complaint with state law claims related to alleged use of his voice
Read more: David L. Greene opposes Google’s motion to dismiss complaint with state law claims related to alleged use of his voiceFormer NPR host of “All Things Considered,” David L. Greene has filed his opposition to Google’s motion to dismiss his state law claims for alleged appropriation of his voice. Google argues his claims are preempted by the Copyright Act. Greene argues they are not. The suit is before Judge Breyer. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD GREENE’S OPPOSITION
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Darius H. James seeks to file First Amended Complaint v. Cerebras Systems after adding Lieff Cabraser lawyers
Read more: Darius H. James seeks to file First Amended Complaint v. Cerebras Systems after adding Lieff Cabraser lawyersAuthor Darius H. James has filed for leave to file a First Amended Complaint. James recently added lawyers from Lieff Cabraser law firm, who are heavily involved representing book authors in multiple suits against AI companies. The proposed First Amended Complaint adds a claim for contributory infringement. The claims relate to Cerebras Systems’ creation of…
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Anthropic cites Judge Chhabria’s relating new lawsuits filed v. Meta by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Carreyrou, Cognella to Kadrey v. Meta.
Read more: Anthropic cites Judge Chhabria’s relating new lawsuits filed v. Meta by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Carreyrou, Cognella to Kadrey v. Meta.Anthropic has cited Judge Chhabria’s decision to relate the recently filed lawsuits v. Meta by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cambronne, and Cognella, respectively. Anthropic has asked Judge Martínez-Olguín, who was assigned Bartz v. Anthropic following Judge Alsup’s retirement, to relate the recently filed lawsuits v. Anthropic by Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cambronne (aka…
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Musk v. Altman trial week 3: Ilya Sutskever provides captivating testimony favorable to OpenAI
Read more: Musk v. Altman trial week 3: Ilya Sutskever provides captivating testimony favorable to OpenAIWeek 3 of the Musk v. Altman trial started off big. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified about the company’s investment in OpenAI, initially $1 billion, of which Nadella said he was proud to be the first company to back OpenAI. Nadella also testified about the “chaos” ensuing the attempted firing of Sam Altman and Nadella’s…
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OpenAI faces most copyright lawsuits. But other AI companies face multiple lawsuits, too.
Read more: OpenAI faces most copyright lawsuits. But other AI companies face multiple lawsuits, too.Nearly four years into the AI Copyright Wars, more than 100 copyright lawsuits have been filed against AI companies. But the number of lawsuits by AI company is not equal. OpenAI faces the most lawsuits by far. Here’s a look at the Top 18 AI Companies by Number of Copyright Suits: Download a PDF of…
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Are university AI researchers now at risk of facing copyright suits for acquiring or using unlicensed materials, or models trained on them?
Read more: Are university AI researchers now at risk of facing copyright suits for acquiring or using unlicensed materials, or models trained on them?When I spoke at the NeurIPS conference a couple years ago, I prodded the audience full of AI researchers from universities to think about their roles in the ongoing debate over the acquisition and use of copyrighted materials to research, develop, and train AI models. I didn’t say it there but said it in my…
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Udio admits to using music from YouTube videos as training data
Read more: Udio admits to using music from YouTube videos as training dataOn April 29, 2026, Udio aka Uncharted Labs filed its Answer to Sony Music Entertainment’s First Amended Complaint. Noteworthy is Udio’s admission (long assumed) that it used the music files from YouTube videos to train its AI models: Although this admission received media attention, it was not surprising. Udio is filing its Answer now after…
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Anthropic asks Judge Martinez-Olguin to deem Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cognella lawsuits as related cases to Bartz v. Anthropic
Read more: Anthropic asks Judge Martinez-Olguin to deem Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cognella lawsuits as related cases to Bartz v. AnthropicAlthough Judge Martínez-Olguín expressed doubt of Anthropic’s earlier notice to seek a related case status between Carreyrou v. Anthropic and Bartz v. Anthopic, Anthropic has formally asked the Judge to consider related case status with two recently filed lawsuits Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Anthropic and Cognella, Inc. v. Anthropic. Presumably, because Judge Pitts…
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Judge Breyer agrees with Google and denies stay of its motion to dismiss in David L. Greene lawsuit
Read more: Judge Breyer agrees with Google and denies stay of its motion to dismiss in David L. Greene lawsuitJudge Breyer just agreed with Google and denied the stay request on Google’s motion to dismiss of plaintiff David L. Greene, former host of NPR’s All Things Considered. Greene was hoping Judge Breyer would decide his motion to remand the state law case back to state court first. But Judge Breyer wants briefing on that…