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Chicken Soup for the Soul refiles lawsuit v. Anthropic after dismissal for improper joinder. Total = 106 copyright suits v. AI
Read more: Chicken Soup for the Soul refiles lawsuit v. Anthropic after dismissal for improper joinder. Total = 106 copyright suits v. AIChicken Soup for the Soul just refiled their complaint against Anthropic. This comes after Judge Chhabria dismissed their omnibus copyright lawsuit against 8 AI companies, while retaining the lawsuit v. Meta as a related case to Kadrey v. Meta. So far, Chicken Soup for the Soul has not re-filed against the 6 other AI companies…
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Are AI researchers at U.S. universities engaged in infringement by unlicensed acquisition and use of copyrighted works, or use of AI models trained on unlicensed works? We shall likely find out.
Read more: Are AI researchers at U.S. universities engaged in infringement by unlicensed acquisition and use of copyrighted works, or use of AI models trained on unlicensed works? We shall likely find out.It was bound to happen. With over 100 copyright lawsuits against nearly every AI company in the United States, the very broad infringement claims would eventually sweep in the practices of AI researchers, including at U.S. universities, generally. In fact, use of copyrighted works in AI training and development started first in academic research by…
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Mark Zuckerberg is sued for copyright infringement by Elsevier and book publishers. Total hits 105.
Read more: Mark Zuckerberg is sued for copyright infringement by Elsevier and book publishers. Total hits 105.Elsevier and other book publishers have filed today a copyright suit against Mark Zuckerberg as well as Meta. The suit was filed in the Southern District of New York. The publishers allege copyright infringement in torrenting of datasets from shadow libraries, web scraping, training AI models, along with contributory infringement and removal of CMI in…
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Cognella publisher, represented by same firm representing author John Carreyrou, sues Meta and Anthropic. But separately, not in omnibus suit. Total hits 104.
Read more: Cognella publisher, represented by same firm representing author John Carreyrou, sues Meta and Anthropic. But separately, not in omnibus suit. Total hits 104.Cognella, Inc., an academic publisher, just sued both Anthropic and Meta for alleged copyright infringement in training their AI models. Cognella is represented by the same law firms representing the plaintiffs in Carreyrou v. Anthropic and ChickenSoup for the Soul v. Meta. But this time, Stris & Maher and Freedman Normand Friedland LLP have decided…
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John Carreyrou’s copyright suit v. OpenAI now officially joined with MDL cases v. OpenAI
Read more: John Carreyrou’s copyright suit v. OpenAI now officially joined with MDL cases v. OpenAIJudge Stein now has the the lawsuit Carreyrou et al v. OpenAI, Inc. et al, at the new Docket No. 1:26-cv-03625. This case was once a part of the omnibus copyright lawsuit filed by Carreyrou against 8 different AI companies. The relevant parties stipulated to a severance and a transfer, which Judge Thompson had granted…
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Apress Media gets default v. Anna’s Archive
Read more: Apress Media gets default v. Anna’s ArchiveApress Media obtained a default against the controversial online “shadow library” Anna’s Archive. This is the second recent lawsuit against Anna’s Archive resulting in a default due to a lack of response from Anna’s Archive. The first, Atlantic Recordings v. Anna’s Archive, has already resulted in a default judgment. Both suits are before Judge Rakoff…
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Motion to dismiss briefing schedule set in Ted Entertainment v. Bytedance
Read more: Motion to dismiss briefing schedule set in Ted Entertainment v. BytedanceJudge Scott Corley issued the order, by joint stipulation of the parties in Ted Entertainment v. Bytedance, setting the schedule for the briefing on motion to dismiss. The initial case management conference won’t be until October 7, 2026.
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David L. Greene, former host of All Things Considered, seeks a remand back to state court in suit v. Google
Read more: David L. Greene, former host of All Things Considered, seeks a remand back to state court in suit v. GoogleDavid L. Greene has filed a motion to remand his suit against Google back to California state court after Google removed it to federal court in David L. Greene v. Google. Greene was the former host of NPR’s Morning Edition and current podcaster. He alleges various state law claims against Google for allegedly using recordings of…