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Status of all 51 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 8, 2025): no more decisions on fair use in 2025.
Read more: Status of all 51 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 8, 2025): no more decisions on fair use in 2025.It’s been a hot minute since our last status report. Right now, we are in the doldrums of discovery. We do not expect any other summary judgment decisions on fair use in AI training until summer 2026 at the earliest. So far, 3 judges ruled on fair use, 2 for and 1 against. But their…
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Should Meta change its name to Superintelligence? Zuckerberg plays hardball in hiring AI researchers away from OpenAI with millions in bonuses
Read more: Should Meta change its name to Superintelligence? Zuckerberg plays hardball in hiring AI researchers away from OpenAI with millions in bonusesMark Zuckerberg is reportedly throwing millions of dollars in signing bonuses to lure the top AI researchers from OpenAI and other companies. Zuckerberg has formed a new Superintelligence Labs division within Meta, led by Alexandr Wang, formerly of Scale. The aggressive, scorched-earth strategy by Zuckerberg comes after a recent release of LlaMa that was a…
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Meta prevails on fair use in AI training in Kadrey v. Meta. But Judge Chhabria cautions a better record of dilution or market harm could prevail in other cases.
Read more: Meta prevails on fair use in AI training in Kadrey v. Meta. But Judge Chhabria cautions a better record of dilution or market harm could prevail in other cases.Judge Chhabria just issued his decision granting Meta partial summary judgment on fair use. But Judge Chabbira did so reluctantly, stating that the plaintiffs failed to present sufficient evidence of market dilution but expecting in other cases a better record of market dilution would have a different result. Indeed, on p. 1 of the opinion,…
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Today Judge Chhabria is the most important judge in the AI copyright lawsuits
Read more: Today Judge Chhabria is the most important judge in the AI copyright lawsuitsWith dueling summary judgment motions on illegal file sharing and fair use fully briefed, Judge Vince Chhabria is today the most important federal judge in all of the 41 lawsuits against AI companies in the United States. Given the timing, Judge Chhabria is poised to be the first federal judge to make a ruling on…
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Expressing skepticism of both sides’ arguments, Judge Chhabria poses 12 Questions on fair use & pirated books
Read more: Expressing skepticism of both sides’ arguments, Judge Chhabria poses 12 Questions on fair use & pirated booksAhead of Thursday’s hearing on the summary judgment motions, Judge Chhabria issued an order at 3 PM PT for the parties’ lawyers to be prepared to answer. These are all excellent questions–showing the Judge has dissected the parties’ arguments with probing scrutiny. If I were a lawyer doing the argument, I would not be getting…