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Magistrate Judge denies Tremblay plaintiffs’ motion to compel third-party Reuters to produce information re any licensing deal with Meta, another non-party
Read more: Magistrate Judge denies Tremblay plaintiffs’ motion to compel third-party Reuters to produce information re any licensing deal with Meta, another non-partyIn Tremblay v. OpenAI, Magistrate Judge Illman denied the plaintiffs’ motion to compel discovery from third-party Reuters to produce information relevant to any licensing deal with Meta. Tremblay argued that this information is relevant to whether a licensing market for content existed at the time OpenAI engaged in its unauthorized use of the plaintiffs’ works.…
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Hearing on Benjamin Mann’s motion to quash subpoena in Tremblay v. OpenAI rescheduled to Feb. 11
Read more: Hearing on Benjamin Mann’s motion to quash subpoena in Tremblay v. OpenAI rescheduled to Feb. 11Due to a change in his attorneys, Benjamin Mann, co-founder of Anthropic and former employee of OpenAI, was able to reschedule the hearing on his motion to quash the subpoena for his deposition. By the court’s order states: “The hearing on the Motion to Quash in In re OpenAI Litigation be continued until February 11,…
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Magistrate Judge Illman sets Zoom hearing re: Microsoft’s motion to quash subpoena as nonparty
Read more: Magistrate Judge Illman sets Zoom hearing re: Microsoft’s motion to quash subpoena as nonpartyMotion Hearing dkt. 248 and discovery letter brief dkts. 267 and 269 set for 2/4/2025 11:00 AM [PDT] in McKinleyville before Magistrate Judge Robert M. Illman. This proceeding will be held via a Zoom webinar. Webinar Access: All counsel, members of the public, and media may access the webinar information at https://www.cand.uscourts.gov/rmi Court Appearances: Advanced…
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OpenAI ordered to turn over “English Colang Dataset” to book authors in Tremblay case
Read more: OpenAI ordered to turn over “English Colang Dataset” to book authors in Tremblay caseIn the Tremblay v. OpenAI case, Magistrate Judge Illman granted the book authors’ request to compel OpenAI to turn over one of the datasets that it used: “English Colang Dataset.” It apparently was difficult to navigate under the data-inspection rules set for discovery by agreement of the parties, as reported by Aruni Soni of Bloomberg…
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Magistrate Judge Illman orders party to try to work out solution to deposing former OpenAI employee Robert Mann, co-founder of Anthropic
Read more: Magistrate Judge Illman orders party to try to work out solution to deposing former OpenAI employee Robert Mann, co-founder of AnthropicMagistrate Judge Illman wants the parties to meet and confer to resolve the dispute raised by non-party Robert Mann, whom the plaintiffs subpoenaed for a deposition: ORDER re 248 MOTION to Quash Plaintiffs’ Third-Party Deposition Subpoena or, in the Alternative, for a Protective Order filed by Benjamin J. Mann. All discovery disputes in this case…
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Benjamin Mann, co-founder of Anthropic, opposes deposition in Tremblay v. OpenAI re: the work he did for OpenAI in past
Read more: Benjamin Mann, co-founder of Anthropic, opposes deposition in Tremblay v. OpenAI re: the work he did for OpenAI in pastWe are beginning to see some discovery skirmishes in the In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation. Benjamin Mann filed a motion to quash the subpoena lodged by the plaintiffs for his deposition. Mann points out that he doesn’t work for OpenAI and doesn’t have any special knowledge that current OpenAI employees wouldn’t know themselves. And, yet,…
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Tremblay plaintiffs seek discovery re: torrents from OpenAI
Read more: Tremblay plaintiffs seek discovery re: torrents from OpenAIMagistrate Judge Illson denied several discovery motions of the Tremblay book author plaintiffs. Yet, one interesting revelation from the order is that the plaintiffs are seeking discovery related to the word “torrents” from OpenAI. Here’s the Judge’s discussion: As to RFP No. 45 (Use of Torrents), Plaintiffs concede that OpenAI did not and is not…
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David Boies & lawyers from his firm added to book authors in Tremblay v. OpenAI
Read more: David Boies & lawyers from his firm added to book authors in Tremblay v. OpenAIDavid Boies and lawyers from his firm, Jesse Panuccio and Maxwell Pritt, have joined the lawyers from Joseph Saveri Law Firm in representing the book authors in the Tremblay v. OpenAI lawsuit. This follows the unceremonious addition of Boies to another book authors’ case, Kadrey v. Meta lawsuit, after Judge Chhabria said he would not…