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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…
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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…