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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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Book authors Josie Brown, Katia Lief, Jacinda Townsend Gides join Darius H. James in copyright suit v. Together Computer over assembling RedPajama books dataset
Read more: Book authors Josie Brown, Katia Lief, Jacinda Townsend Gides join Darius H. James in copyright suit v. Together Computer over assembling RedPajama books datasetBook authors Josie Brown, Katia Lief, and Jacinda Townsend Gides have joined book author Darius H. James in the copyright lawsuit against Together Computer. The lawsuit focuses on Together Computer’s alleged responsibility for the RedPajama books dataset used for AI training. DOWNLOAD THE REDLINED VERSION OF THE 1ST AMENDED COMPLAINT DOWNLOAD THE FIRST AMENDED COMPLAINT
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Anthropic scores minor win as Judge Lee deems Concord Music v. Anthropic II (alleged use of shadow libraries) is related to Concord Music v. Anthropic I. II gets reassigned to Judge Lee
Read more: Anthropic scores minor win as Judge Lee deems Concord Music v. Anthropic II (alleged use of shadow libraries) is related to Concord Music v. Anthropic I. II gets reassigned to Judge LeeAnthropic scored a minor victory today as Judge Lee agreed with Anthropic that Concord Music Group v. Anthropic II, recently filed and assigned to Judge Lin, is related to the originally filed case of Concord Music Group v. Anthropic I already before Judge Lee. That means Judge Lee will now get Concord Music Group v.…
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John Carreyrou, book authors file copyright suit v. entire AI industry: Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI (of Elon Musk), and Perplexity. Copyright suits hit 70. (Could have been 75.)
Read more: John Carreyrou, book authors file copyright suit v. entire AI industry: Anthropic, Google, Meta, xAI (of Elon Musk), and Perplexity. Copyright suits hit 70. (Could have been 75.)John Carreyrou and 5 other book authors (Lisa Barretta, Philip Shishkin, Jane Adams, Matthew Sacks, and Michael Kochin) ho opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic with the encouragement of ClaimsHero, an Arizona-based law firm that has specialized in claims aggregation, have filed today a copyright lawsuit against nearly the entire U.S. AI industry: The…
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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…