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Magistrate Judge Cisneros grants Sarah Andersen’s discovery request for list of enterprise customers of Stability AI. “Information relevant to fair use,” including Factor 4.
Read more: Magistrate Judge Cisneros grants Sarah Andersen’s discovery request for list of enterprise customers of Stability AI. “Information relevant to fair use,” including Factor 4.In the visual artists’ lawsuit, Andersen v. Stability AI, Magistrate Judge Lisa Cisneros agreed with the plaintiffs that a list of all enterprise clients of Stability AI is relevant information to fair use, and market harm under Factor 4. “ORDER by Magistrate Judge Lisa J. Cisneros: The Court grants Plaintiffs’ request at ECF No. 454…
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Runway seeks discovery from Sarah Andersen, Jingna Zhang from Google GenAI case
Read more: Runway seeks discovery from Sarah Andersen, Jingna Zhang from Google GenAI caseIn Andersen v. Stability AI, Runway is asking Magistrate Judge Cisneros to order Plaintiffs Sarah Andersen and Jingna Zhang to produce discovery from another lawsuit in which they are involved, In re Google Generative AI Litigation. DOWNLOAD THE DISCOVERY LETTER
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Andersen, Midjourney ask Magistrate Judge to resolve 2 disputes over Midjourney’s filtering of training data, Artists’ trade dress
Read more: Andersen, Midjourney ask Magistrate Judge to resolve 2 disputes over Midjourney’s filtering of training data, Artists’ trade dressSarah Andersen Plaintiffs and Midjourney are asking Magistrate Judge Cisneros to resolve 2 discovery disputes: (1) Whether Midjourney has to provide further information related to its filtering of training data, (2) Whether Plaintiffs have to provide further information related to their alleged trade dress. DOWNLOAD LETTER RE: FILTERING OF DATA DOWNLOAD LETTER RE: ARTISTS’ TRADE…
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Sarah Andersen and DeviantArt dispute custodians
Read more: Sarah Andersen and DeviantArt dispute custodiansThe parties in Andersen v. Stability AI have raised a discovery dispute with Magistrate Judge Cisneros. Plaintiffs’ Position: Plaintiffs respectfully seek an order requiring DA to designate fourkey percipient witnesses as custodians: (1) Niran Lamay (Product Lead); (2) Nikolay Surovenko(Machine Learning Engineer); (3) Robert Woolfson (Head of Data); and (4) Sasha Lerner (VicePresident of Engineering),…
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Magistrate Judge Cisneros grants Plaintiffs’ request for 5 additional depositions on top of 10 in suit v. Mosaic
Read more: Magistrate Judge Cisneros grants Plaintiffs’ request for 5 additional depositions on top of 10 in suit v. MosaicORDER by Magistrate Judge Lisa J. Cisneros regarding 184 Discovery Letter Brief: Plaintiffs’ request at 184 is GRANTED. Plaintiffs may depose Dr. Trott, Mr. Sovine, and Mr. Veingalla for up to seven hours each, and Mr. Hartman and Ms. Uhlenhuth for up to four hours each. The Court agrees that exceeding the 10-deposition limit is…
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Parties in Mosaic LLM case dispute over 5 additional depositions
Read more: Parties in Mosaic LLM case dispute over 5 additional depositionsPlaintiffs in the Mosaic LLM case want 5 extra depositions on top of the presumptive 10 per side. The defendants oppose it.
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Magistrate Judge Cisneros denies, for now, plaintiffs’ request to depose Databricks CEO Ghodsi
Read more: Magistrate Judge Cisneros denies, for now, plaintiffs’ request to depose Databricks CEO GhodsiMagistrate Judge Cisneros denied the Mosaic LLM Litigation plaintiffs’ request to depose Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi. But the denial was without prejudice and plaintiffs could seek it again if they couldn’t get their information sought from other witnesses. Excerpt from Magistrate Judge Cisneros’s order DOWNLOAD THE ORDER
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Parties in In re Mosaic file letter for dispute over search terms and interrogatories for Plaintiffs
Read more: Parties in In re Mosaic file letter for dispute over search terms and interrogatories for PlaintiffsThe parties filed a letter with Magistrate Judge Cisneros about the search terms plaintiffs must use to check its own data (ESI) and lack of responses to interrogatories of the defendants. On first impression, what defendants seek sounds reasonable. But we shall see what Judge Cisneros thinks.
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Parties in Andersen v. Stability AI give status report on discovery, without immediate need for court intervention
Read more: Parties in Andersen v. Stability AI give status report on discovery, without immediate need for court interventionThe parties in Andersen v. Stability AI gave Magistrate Judge Cisneros a status report on production of datasets used to train AI models and responses to interrogatories. For the most part, discovery has proceeded along. The parties do not seek the court’s intervention, at least not yet. For the first filed copyright lawsuit against AI…
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Judge Cisneros allows book authors in Mosaic lawsuit to subpoena Microsoft for ” its communications with and documents regarding entities with which it entered licensing agreements for AI Training Data, where the communications or documents indicate potential or proposed terems for licensing”
Read more: Judge Cisneros allows book authors in Mosaic lawsuit to subpoena Microsoft for ” its communications with and documents regarding entities with which it entered licensing agreements for AI Training Data, where the communications or documents indicate potential or proposed terems for licensing”In In Re Mosaic LLM Litigation, Magistrate Judge Lisa Cisneros issued an important discovery ruling allowing the book author plaintiffs to subpoena Microsoft’s documents and communications that “indicate potential or proposed terms for licensing.” Microsoft had already produced the actual licenses it struck with 14 or 15 copyright owners. Although Judge Cisneros rejected the full…