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Status of all 28 copyright suits v. AI (Jul. 14, 2024)
Read more: Status of all 28 copyright suits v. AI (Jul. 14, 2024)Here is the latest status report for all U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Given the July 4th holiday, the week was quieter. Highlights: New developments from last week’s report are indicated below with an asterisk*. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. D. Del.…
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Download updated Map of Copyright Lawsuits v. AI (July 2024)
Read more: Download updated Map of Copyright Lawsuits v. AI (July 2024)Download our updated map of all 28 copyright lawsuits against AI companies. The PDF below has clickable links to dockets for each case. Notice how the lawsuits are now all on the coasts after the Concord Music v. Anthropic lawsuit was transferred to the N.D. California.
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Judge Tigar dismisses DMCA claims for CMI in Doe 1 v. GitHub, again
Read more: Judge Tigar dismisses DMCA claims for CMI in Doe 1 v. GitHub, againAfter the parties agreed no redactions were necessary, Judge Tigar’s order dismissing the second amended complaint’s(SAC’s) DMCA claims for copyright management information under 1202(b)(1) and (b)(3) is now available. No surprise, Judge Tigar dismissed the claims again (after having dismissed them once before). Applying Ninth Circuit law, Judge Tigar ruled that the DMCA claims for…
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Status of all 27 copyright suits v. AI (Jul. 5, 2024): Huckabee suit revived. Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman to drop out of Meta suit.
Read more: Status of all 27 copyright suits v. AI (Jul. 5, 2024): Huckabee suit revived. Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman to drop out of Meta suit.Here’s the latest status report of all 27 copyright suits–soon to be 28 suits—against AI companies. Even with the July 4th holiday, there was plenty activity. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. D. Del. Bibas *Plaintiffs’ opposition to filtration hearing due on Jul. 5,…
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ROSS brief argues for filtration hearing conducted by Judge Bibas before trial to identify uncopyrightable elements
Read more: ROSS brief argues for filtration hearing conducted by Judge Bibas before trial to identify uncopyrightable elementsThe redacted version of ROSS Intelligence’s brief is now available. It argues that the court should conduct a pretrial filtration hearing on the copyrightability of Westlaw’s headnotes and legal topics. Headnotes are short summaries of points that Westlaw has drawn from a court decision. The legal topics are like topics in an index to a…
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Complaints in copyright suit by UMG Recordings, 11 other music v. AI music generators Suno & Udio. Copyright suits v. AI hits 26 in U.S.
Read more: Complaints in copyright suit by UMG Recordings, 11 other music v. AI music generators Suno & Udio. Copyright suits v. AI hits 26 in U.S.On Monday, two new copyright lawsuits were filed against AI companies. This time, the music labels led by UMG Recordings sued two AI music generators, Suno and Unchartered Labs d/b/a Udio. The suit against Suno was filed in the District of Massachusetts; the one against Udio in the Southern District of New York. The 12…
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Judge Bibas agrees to consider whether to hold a pretrial filtration hearing on copyrightability of West works
Read more: Judge Bibas agrees to consider whether to hold a pretrial filtration hearing on copyrightability of West worksJudge Stephanos Bibas granted the parties’ request to allow briefing on whether the court should conduct a filtration hearing to determine if some elements of West’s works are not copyrightable as a matter of law. The defendant ROSS Intelligence supports a filtration hearing, but Thomson Reuters, the plaintiff, opposes it. The briefing schedule is: Entertaining…
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Status of all 24 copyright lawsuits v. AI companies (Jun. 14, 2024): 1st trial in AI cases nears, Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence
Read more: Status of all 24 copyright lawsuits v. AI companies (Jun. 14, 2024): 1st trial in AI cases nears, Thomson Reuters v. ROSS IntelligenceHere’s the latest news in all 24 copyright lawsuits against AI companies. We have exciting news: The new developments from last week’s report are indicated with an asterisk*. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. D. Del. Bibas *Joint Letter to The Honorable Stephanos Bibas…
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Judge Rakoff order grants The Intercept Media leave to amend complaint to add specific factual allegations of OpenAI’s infringement of its works
Read more: Judge Rakoff order grants The Intercept Media leave to amend complaint to add specific factual allegations of OpenAI’s infringement of its worksJudge Rakoff didn’t dismiss The Intercept’s complaint, but issued an order granting leave to the plaintiff to amend its complaint to “rectify some of the seeming lack of specificity in its current complaint.” The Intercept Media has until Friday, June 21, to amend its complaint.
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Status report on all 24 copyright lawsuits v. AI companies (Jun. 6, 2024): J.L. v. Alphabet dismissed; Nvidia hires Neal Katyal
Read more: Status report on all 24 copyright lawsuits v. AI companies (Jun. 6, 2024): J.L. v. Alphabet dismissed; Nvidia hires Neal KatyalHere’s the latest status report on all 24 copyright lawsuits against AI companies. The new developments from last week’s report are indicated with an asterisk (*). Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. D. Del. Bibas Trial on the copyright issues will begin on August 26, 2024,…