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Judge Lin gets assigned Concord Music v. Anthropic II for now. Other new cases assigned.
Read more: Judge Lin gets assigned Concord Music v. Anthropic II for now. Other new cases assigned.Some of the recent AI copyright lawsuits have been assigned. They are listed below. 1. Judge Rita F. Lin was assigned Concord Music Group v. Anthropic II. But there’s a pending motion for Judge Eumi Lee to consider relating the case to Concord Music v. Anthropic I. If Judge Lee does so, the second case…
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Hollywood studios roiled by Seedance AI video pitting Brad Pitt v. Tom Cruise
Read more: Hollywood studios roiled by Seedance AI video pitting Brad Pitt v. Tom CruiseSimilar to what happened when Midjourney released its new video generator that enabled users to create videos with Hollywood studios’ animated characters, the video generator Seedance, owned by Chinese-based Bytedance, has roiled Hollywood studios. The AI-generated video that caused the greatest uproar was one pitting Brad Pitt against Tom Cruise: Disney swiftly sent a cease-and-desist…
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Google seeks to spoil author John Carreyrou’s omnibus copyright suit v. the AI industry for improper joinder under Federal Rules
Read more: Google seeks to spoil author John Carreyrou’s omnibus copyright suit v. the AI industry for improper joinder under Federal RulesLeave it to Google to spoil the potential omnibus copyright lawsuit author John Carreyrou, who opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement, against nearly the entire AI industry in the United States: OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Perplexity AI, xAI, and Google. Google brings up the pesky Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 20. Google contends the…
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Judge Stein reverses Magistrate Judge’s ruling on OpenAI’s attorney-client privilege to deletion of Books 1, 2 datasets. Judge Stein: no waiver by OpenAI. Lisa Blatt secures huge win for OpenAI.
Read more: Judge Stein reverses Magistrate Judge’s ruling on OpenAI’s attorney-client privilege to deletion of Books 1, 2 datasets. Judge Stein: no waiver by OpenAI. Lisa Blatt secures huge win for OpenAI.Judge Stein issued the long-awaited decision on OpenAI’s appeal of Magistrate Judge Wang’s ruling that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege as to the deletion of Books 1, 2 datasets. It’s a complete reversal and a major win for OpenAI, who hired Supreme Court litigator Lisa Blatt to brief the appeal. Trial attorney Robert Van Nast…
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Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercial throws shade at OpenAI for ads in ChatGPT. VIDEOS
Read more: Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercial throws shade at OpenAI for ads in ChatGPT. VIDEOSAnthropic is throwing off the gloves. It plan on airing a commercial during the Super Bowl throwing shade at OpenAI for its plan to allow ads in ChatGPT chats. The first video is reportedly (per WSJ) the one that will air: But this one is my favorite: Also clever: Love it: Brilliant!
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Judge Gonzalez-Rogers appoints book author Hendrix’s lawyers William Dreher of Keller Rohrback LLP and Rohit Nath of Susman Godfrey LLP as Interim Co-Lead Counsel in consolidated suits v. Apple
Read more: Judge Gonzalez-Rogers appoints book author Hendrix’s lawyers William Dreher of Keller Rohrback LLP and Rohit Nath of Susman Godfrey LLP as Interim Co-Lead Counsel in consolidated suits v. AppleWilliam Dreher of Keller Rohrback LLP, and Rohit Nath from Susman Godfrey LLP, who represent the book authors Hendrix in Hendrix v. Apple, were appointed Interim Co-Lead Counsel in the now consolidated case involving also Alexander v. Apple and Martinez-Conde v. Apple. After briefing and a hearing this week, Judge Gonzalez-Rogers picked Rohrback and Nath over the lawyers…
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Bloomberg files Answer in Huckabee book author suit
Read more: Bloomberg files Answer in Huckabee book author suitBloomberg recentLy filed its Answer in the copyright suit filed by book authors Huckabee. The Answer mainly denies the allegations or says it “lacks knowledge or information sufficient to admit or deny the allegations of this paragraph about Plaintiff.” DOWNLOAD BLOOMBERG’S ANSWER
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Magistrate Judge Wang gives OpenAI until midnight tonight to object to Plaintiffs’ request for Ilya Sutskever memos and all depositions from Musk v. Altman suit
Read more: Magistrate Judge Wang gives OpenAI until midnight tonight to object to Plaintiffs’ request for Ilya Sutskever memos and all depositions from Musk v. Altman suitMagistrate Judge Wang just gave OpenAI until midnight tonight to file any objection to the Plaintiffs’ request for 2 memos written by Ilya Sutskever and all deposition transcripts from the Musk v. Altman lawsuit (which itself is headed to trial) in April). ORDER re: (1178 in 1:25-md-03143-SHS-OTW) Letter, filed by The New York Times Company.…
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George Noble, ex-Fidelity manager and now financial bubble siren, says “OPENAI IS FALLING APART IN REAL TIME”
Read more: George Noble, ex-Fidelity manager and now financial bubble siren, says “OPENAI IS FALLING APART IN REAL TIME”George Noble, the former Fidelity manager of its highly successful Overseas Fund and now vocal siren of financial bubbles, has a new target for his bubble skepticism: OpenAI. In a viral X post that has generated nearly 2 million views in less than 24 hours, Noble wrote: OPENAI IS FALLING APART IN REAL TIME I’ve…
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Elon Musk deposition testimony: he “started to suspect that he was being swindled” by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman in 2017
Read more: Elon Musk deposition testimony: he “started to suspect that he was being swindled” by Sam Altman, Greg Brockman in 2017Elon Musk testified in his deposition in Musk v. Altman: he “started to suspect that he was being swindled” by Sam Altman and Greg Brockman in 2017, and the he “felt that he was being tricked.” Judge Gonzalez Rogers quoted this deposition testimony of Musk in his lawsuit against Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI.…