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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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Music labels and Spotify sue shadow library Anna’s Archive for copyright infringement and secure a default. AI Lawsuits hit 77 in US.
Read more: Music labels and Spotify sue shadow library Anna’s Archive for copyright infringement and secure a default. AI Lawsuits hit 77 in US.The music labels led by Atlantic Recording Corp. and Spotify sued the shadow library Anna’s Archive earlier in January 2026. This is AI copyright lawsuit No. 77 in the United States. This lawsuit follows Anna Archive’s reported scraping of tracks from Spotify: They already have secured a default because Anna’s Archive failed to respond after…
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Complaint in Lyon v. Adobe Copyright suits hit 68 in U.S. v. AI.
Read more: Complaint in Lyon v. Adobe Copyright suits hit 68 in U.S. v. AI.As we close out 2025, the copyright lawsuits against AI companies continue unabated. We have now hit Copyright Lawsuit No. 68. It’s the 30th copyright lawsuit filed in 2025 against AI companies. LYON V. ADOBE Earlier this week, book author Elizabeth Lyon, who writes about how to get published, sued Adobe for training its slim…
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Judge Garnett denies Bloomberg’s motion to dismiss Huckabee book author copyright case. Court cites Bloomberg’s research paper that allegedly “stated Bloomberg used the data in Books3 to train BloombergGPT”
Read more: Judge Garnett denies Bloomberg’s motion to dismiss Huckabee book author copyright case. Court cites Bloomberg’s research paper that allegedly “stated Bloomberg used the data in Books3 to train BloombergGPT”The relatively quiet lawsuit Huckabee v. Bloomberg L.P. suddenly saw activity the day before Thanksgiving. Judge Garnett rejected Bloomberg’s motion to dismiss the Huckabee book author copyright lawsuit. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE OPINION
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Book authors chomping at the bit to get more discovery of OpenAI’s alleged use of shadow libraries
Read more: Book authors chomping at the bit to get more discovery of OpenAI’s alleged use of shadow librariesAfter scoring a major victory in getting additional discovery related to OpenAI’s alleged use of shadow libraries, the book authors in the MDL litigation are chomping at the bit. Book authors are salivating to get their hands on the documents now. But OpenAI said it would take until early December. If Judge Stein follows Judge…
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Magistrate Judge Wang allows discovery related to OpenAI’s alleged use of Library Genesis, shadow library
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang allows discovery related to OpenAI’s alleged use of Library Genesis, shadow libraryThe fallout from Judge Stein’s decision to allow the Class Plaintiffs to pursue a separate copyright claim based on OpenAI’s alleged downloading of book copies from shadow libraries, such as Library Genesis, continues. Magistrate Judge Wang just allowed the Plaintiffs discovery related to OpenAI’s alleged use of Library Genesis. The Plaintiffs will milk the Shadow…
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List of Cases in which Authors adopt the Shadow Library Strategy v. AI companies.
Read more: List of Cases in which Authors adopt the Shadow Library Strategy v. AI companies.UPDATED on Nov. 7, 2025: We posted an updated graphic compiling all the U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies in which the authors are advancing the Shadow Library Strategy against the AI companies. The Shadow Library Strategy is to raise a separate theory of infringement–apart from the training of AI models–based on the AI company’s…
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NVIDIA files opposition to Nazemian’s attempt to reverse Magistrate Judge’s decision rejecting discovery of datasets outside of Complaint
Read more: NVIDIA files opposition to Nazemian’s attempt to reverse Magistrate Judge’s decision rejecting discovery of datasets outside of ComplaintNVIDIA just filed its opposition in response to Nazemian’s motion to reverse Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim’s denial of the plaintiffs’ motion to compel discovery of other datasets (from “shadow libraries”) not included in the Complaint.
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Judge Breyer grants Mosaic ML’s partial motion to dismiss copyright claims based on bare allegation that Databricks used shadow libraries with pirated books
Read more: Judge Breyer grants Mosaic ML’s partial motion to dismiss copyright claims based on bare allegation that Databricks used shadow libraries with pirated booksJudge Breyer just granted Mosaic ML’s partial motion to dismiss the newly added copryight claim in the First Amended Complaint against Databricks based on its DBRX large language models. And the Judge did so without further leave to amend. Judge Breyer held that the plaintiffs’ general allegation that, upon information and belief, Databricks used pirated…