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Anthropic raises 20 affirmative defenses, including fair use, innocent infringement, copyright misuse, and due process violation for damages
Read more: Anthropic raises 20 affirmative defenses, including fair use, innocent infringement, copyright misuse, and due process violation for damagesNow that Judge Lee rejected Concord Music’s belated motion to amend the complaint (to include use of shadow libraries), Anthropic has filed its answer to the already filed first amended complaint. Anthropic includes most of the same defenses it raised in the Bartz case, including fair use and innocent infringement. But it has added 6…
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New suit: Independent artists sue Uncharted Labs in Illinois. Suit No. 54 in US. Woulard v. Uncharted Labs
Read more: New suit: Independent artists sue Uncharted Labs in Illinois. Suit No. 54 in US. Woulard v. Uncharted LabsThe lawsuits are now coming fast and furious, with the third copyright lawsuit filed this week. But this one, Woulard v. Uncharted Labs, was filed in the Northern District of Illinois, the first copyright lawsuit against an AI company filed there. This suit brings the total number of U.S. copyright suits filed against AI companies…
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No Bartz II: Anthropic wins bar on deposition questions on torrenting and acquisition of copies from “pirate libraries.”
Read more: No Bartz II: Anthropic wins bar on deposition questions on torrenting and acquisition of copies from “pirate libraries.”The ramifications of Anthropic’s major victory last week are still playing out. Anthropic defeated Concord Music’s motion to amend its complaint to add a new claim based on the use of “pirate” shadow libraries that were revealed in the unrelated lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic. Because discovery is set to end this month and because Concord…
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Judge Stein holds 4 hour hearing for OpenAI’s motion to dismiss
Read more: Judge Stein holds 4 hour hearing for OpenAI’s motion to dismissThe MDL litigation against OpenAI and Microsoft is trudging along. Judge Stein held oral argument on various motions, including motions to dismiss the output claims. The hearing lasted nearly 4 hours! Adam Eisgrau was at the hearing and summarized it below. It sounds like Eisgrau thinks that OpenAI may get some of the claims dismissed.…
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No Bartz II. Judge Lee rejects Concord Music’s request to amend complaint to add Bartz-style piracy claim based on bittorrenting from shadow libraries
Read more: No Bartz II. Judge Lee rejects Concord Music’s request to amend complaint to add Bartz-style piracy claim based on bittorrenting from shadow librariesJudge Eumi Lee denied Concord Music’s request to amend the complaint to add a new claim of copyright infringement based on Anthropic’s alleged bittorenting of files of their musical works allegedly from shadow libraries. Concord Music alleged, in its motion, that Anthropic’s bittorrenting involving downloading fit within its existing claims of willful infringement, while it…
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OpenAI loses yet another discovery motion as Magistrate Judge Wang orders OpenAI to produce “Slack messages between Adam Nace, Alex Paino, Bob McGrew, Matt Knight, Nick Ryder, Lilian Weng, Jeff Wu, Jakub Pachocki, Jason Kwon , and Che Chang about deleting Library Genesis”
Read more: OpenAI loses yet another discovery motion as Magistrate Judge Wang orders OpenAI to produce “Slack messages between Adam Nace, Alex Paino, Bob McGrew, Matt Knight, Nick Ryder, Lilian Weng, Jeff Wu, Jakub Pachocki, Jason Kwon , and Che Chang about deleting Library Genesis”Library Genesis, the notorious shadow library, is back in the news. Last week, Magistrate Judge Wang handed another (partial) discovery loss to OpenAI. The most significant part of the ruling allows the plaintiffs in the In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation to discover “Slack messages between Adam Nace, Alex Paino, Bob McGrew, Matt Knight, Nick…
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Judge Lee rejects Anthropic’s motion to dismiss parts of Concord Music’s complaint
Read more: Judge Lee rejects Anthropic’s motion to dismiss parts of Concord Music’s complaintNo surprise: Judge Lee rejected Anthropic’s motion to dismiss parts of Concord Music’s First Amended Complaint. Judge Lee will decide whether to grant Concord Music’s motion for leave to file a Second Amended Complaint to add DMCA anti-circumvention claim for Anthropic’s alleged “stream ripping” of music tracks from YouTube videos. 1. Contributory infringement: As described…
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Briefing in 9th Circuit in Doe 1 v. Github
Read more: Briefing in 9th Circuit in Doe 1 v. GithubWe created a dedicated page for the briefing in the Doe 1 v. Github interlocutory appeal in the Ninth Circuit. Check it out here.
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More amici briefs for ROSS Intelligence. Foundation for American Innovation. Abraham Kang & Kunal Patel.
Read more: More amici briefs for ROSS Intelligence. Foundation for American Innovation. Abraham Kang & Kunal Patel.ROSS Intelligence received a couple more late amici brief filings. One by the Foundation for American Innovation. The other by Abraham Kang and Kunal Patel. DOWNLOAD AMICUS BRIEF OF FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAN INNOVATION DOWNLOAD AMICI BRIEF FOR ABRAHAM KANG & KUNAL PATEL
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Judge Hellerstein grants extension of discovery in UMG v. Uncharted Labs
Read more: Judge Hellerstein grants extension of discovery in UMG v. Uncharted LabsAs stipulated jointly by the parties, Judge Hellerstein granted an extension to the scheduling order. Currently, UMG is seeking leave to amend to add an anti-circumvention violation under the DMCA due to alleged “stream ripping” of sound recordings on YouTube videos. Expect Judge Hellerstein to grant this motion. The parties requested 2 months more of…