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The shadowy allegations v. Google asserted by book authors, now publishers. Did Google use shadow libraries or not — when it has its own Google Books database?
Read more: The shadowy allegations v. Google asserted by book authors, now publishers. Did Google use shadow libraries or not — when it has its own Google Books database?As part of their motion to intervene, book publishers Cengage Learning and Hachette Book’s proposed complaint against Google alleges “Google first illegally copied Plaintiffs’ and the Class’s copyrighted books—downloading them from pirated sources and extracting them from behind legitimate paywalls—to amass a massive corpus of source material.” The nature of Google’s alleged downloading appears to…
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OpenAI, represented by SCOTUS litigator Lisa Blatt, seeks to stop string of discovery losses and stave off loss of attorney-client privilege. Oral argument on Friday, Jan. 16 is the most important one OpenAI has faced.
Read more: OpenAI, represented by SCOTUS litigator Lisa Blatt, seeks to stop string of discovery losses and stave off loss of attorney-client privilege. Oral argument on Friday, Jan. 16 is the most important one OpenAI has faced.The oral argument in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation tomorrow, Friday, Jan.16, 2026 at 02:00 PM in Courtroom 23A, 500 Pearl Street, New York, NY 10007 before Judge Sidney H. Stein, is the most important one OpenAI has faced in all the copyright lawsuits against it. At issue is OpenAI’s appeal of Magistrate Judge…
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Book author Darius James goes on offensive v. shadow libraries, filing 3 copyright suits v. Snowflake, Together Computer, Cerebras Systems. Total AI copyright suits hit 74.
Read more: Book author Darius James goes on offensive v. shadow libraries, filing 3 copyright suits v. Snowflake, Together Computer, Cerebras Systems. Total AI copyright suits hit 74.Book author Darius H. James filed three class action copyright suits since last November: (1) one against Snowflake Inc. for its alleged training of its LLMs using RedPajama and Books3 dataset; (2) one against Together Computer for its infringement when it allegedly “orchestrated and assembled the RedPajama dataset, a dataset comprised of a mixture of publicly available…
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Judge Garnett allows discovery in Huckabee v. Bloomberg, sets schedule
Read more: Judge Garnett allows discovery in Huckabee v. Bloomberg, sets scheduleThe Huckabee v. Bloomberg is moving into discovery, now that the court rejected Bloomberg’s motion to dismiss. After a conference yesterday, Judge Garnett issued the following order: ORDER: As discussed on the record at the conference on January 13, 2026, the Court hereby LIFTS the stay on discovery (Dkt. No. 85) and ADOPTS the below…
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Has actor Matthew McConaughey really trademarked himself? WSJ suggests so.
Read more: Has actor Matthew McConaughey really trademarked himself? WSJ suggests so.As I was preparing to teach trademark class today, I was struck by the Wall Street Journal‘s provocatively titled article, “Matthew McConaughey Trademarks Himself to Fight AI Misuse.” The title of the article was only more shocking than one I read about the proposed law in Denmark that would allow people to “copyright themselves” as…
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AI backlash: 3 open ChatGPT tabs spark allegations of AI use for Stranger Things show
Read more: AI backlash: 3 open ChatGPT tabs spark allegations of AI use for Stranger Things showJust to show you how triggering AI usage can be, Internet sleuths are running wild almost conspiracy theories that the Duffer Brothers relied on ChatGPT when creating Stranger Things Season 5. What’s the evidence? Apparently, a shot from the documentary about Stranger Things showing 3 open ChatGPT tabs on the brower while one of the…
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Databricks, Mosaic file surreply to Plaintiffs’ request to file 2d Amended Complaint
Read more: Databricks, Mosaic file surreply to Plaintiffs’ request to file 2d Amended ComplaintDatabricks and Mosaic filed their surreply opposing the Plaintiffs’ request to file a 2d Amended Complaint. The hearing is set before Judge Breyer on Jan. 16, 10 AM PDT. For past briefing: Excerpt:
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Plaintiffs seek to exclude William Patry’s expert testimony on issues relevant to class certification in Google AI suit
Read more: Plaintiffs seek to exclude William Patry’s expert testimony on issues relevant to class certification in Google AI suitPlaintiffs are seeking to exclude the expert testimony of two experts proffered by Google: William Patry and Ryan Sullivan. Of course, as Plaintiffs say, “Patry formerly served as Google’s Senior Copyright Counsel for over 17 years and now works at Quinn Emanuel, where he represents other large technology companies in litigation involving the use of…
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Judge Stein upholds disovery of 20M ChatGPT chat logs of users
Read more: Judge Stein upholds disovery of 20M ChatGPT chat logs of usersJudge Stein upheld Magistrate Judge Wang’s order that OpenAI must produce 20 million ChatGPT chat logs to the plaintiffs in the MDL litigation. OpenAI’s pending Rule 72(a) objection to Magistrate Judge Wang’s decision finding that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege related to deletion of Books 1, 2 datasets remains before Judge Stein. OpenAI, represented by…