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Summary Judgment Calendar for AI copyright cases
Read more: Summary Judgment Calendar for AI copyright casesHere’s the latest schedule for summary judgment motions in the AI copyright cases that have deadlines from 2026 to Feb. 2027: Date Case Event Judge Notes July 8, 2026 In re Google Generative AI Litigation SJ motions due Lee (N.D. Cal.) Schedule currently stayed pending decision on outstanding motions July 15, 2026 Concord Music v.…
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Summary judgment in UMG Recordings v. Suno pushed back to Jan. 8, 2027
Read more: Summary judgment in UMG Recordings v. Suno pushed back to Jan. 8, 2027UMG Recordings v. Suno was once next in line for summary judgment motions on fair use in AI training. But, after a series of extensions, the last one granted yesterday, the case has dropped behind several others for the next opportunity for a ruling on fair use, as shown below:
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Judge Oetken grants extension to discovery in Lerhman v. Lovo
Read more: Judge Oetken grants extension to discovery in Lerhman v. LovoORDER granting 60 Letter Motion for Extension of Time to Complete Discovery: Granted. The parties’ joint request for an extension of time to complete discovery is granted. The Court adopts the parties’ discovery schedule as follows: (a) the deadline for the completion of all fact discovery is extended to May 5, 2026; (b) the deadline…
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Summary judgment, trial gets pushed back in Concord Music v. Anthropic. Next fair use decision in AI training might not be until Fall 2026
Read more: Summary judgment, trial gets pushed back in Concord Music v. Anthropic. Next fair use decision in AI training might not be until Fall 2026It will likely be well over a year since the fair use decisions of Judge Alsup and Judge Chhabria before we have another federal judge weigh in on fair use. Their decisions came on June. 23 and June 25, 2025, respectively. Judge Lee, upon the stipulation of the parties in Concord Music v. Anthropic, just…
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Trump orders federal government agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI. Anthropic opposed military’s use of AI for autonomous warfare or mass surveillance.
Read more: Trump orders federal government agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI. Anthropic opposed military’s use of AI for autonomous warfare or mass surveillance.The controversy related to the U.S. military’s contract with Anthropic for the use of its AI escalated. After a couple days of intense negotiations between Anthropic and the Department of War, President Trump ordered all federal agencies to stop using Anthropic’s AI, Claude, with a phase out in the next 6 months: How Did We…
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Judge Thompson recuses herself from John Carreyrou v. Google. Anthropic adds its own motion to sever Carreyrou’s omnibus copyright lawsuit v. the AI industry.
Read more: Judge Thompson recuses herself from John Carreyrou v. Google. Anthropic adds its own motion to sever Carreyrou’s omnibus copyright lawsuit v. the AI industry.Book author John Carreyrou’s bold attempt to pursue an omnibus copyright lawsuit against the U.S. AI industry appears possibly splintering apart. Google already filed a motion to sever. And today Anthropic followed suit (see below). We can expect the same motions to sever from Meta, Perplexity AI, and xAI. The case against OpenAI has already…
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Will Judge Lee certify a class action v. Google in AI suit? Hearing on Feb. 20. Judge Lee stays discovery pending her decision.
Read more: Will Judge Lee certify a class action v. Google in AI suit? Hearing on Feb. 20. Judge Lee stays discovery pending her decision.Wow. Judge Lee has stayed discovery in In re Google Generative AI Litigation, pending her decision on class certification. The hearing on class certification is tomorrow, February 20, 1 PM PDT in San Jose federal court. Not to read too much into it, but the stay of discovery could be a good sign for Google.…
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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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English translation of Munich Local Court rejetion of authorship in prompt-engineered logos. Court leaves open door for authorship in other prompt-engineered works made with human creative influence or personality
Read more: English translation of Munich Local Court rejetion of authorship in prompt-engineered logos. Court leaves open door for authorship in other prompt-engineered works made with human creative influence or personalityThe Munich Local Court ruled against authorship under German copyright law for three logos generated by a person using AI using prompts. But the Court left open the door for authorship in other works where the human has made sufficient creative influence over the output manifesting the personality of the author: “Copyright protection is therefore…