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GW Law Professor Robert Brauneis & other copyright scholars file amicus brief v. Meta’s fair use defense in Kadrey book case

George Washington University Law School Professor Robert Brauneis and other copyright scholars submitted an amicus brief opposing Meta’s fair use defense. This brief can be read as a response to another copyright law scholars brief filed by Harvard Law Professor Rebecca Tushnet in support of Meta’s fair use defense (see Related Stories below). Here’s the Read more

April 11, 2025
Amicus Int’l Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers blasts Meta for file sharing stolen books from notorious “illegal websites”

Ten days ago, Harvard Law Professor Rebecca Tushnet filed an amicus brief on behalf of her and other copyright scholars in support of Meta’s defense of fair use in Kadrey v. Meta. That opened the door to other amicus briefs to be filed. After Tushnet’s motion for leave to file an amicus brief, Judge Chhabria Read more

April 11, 2025
Judge McMahon issues scheduling order in Advance Local Media v. Cohere

Judge McMahon issued the scheduling order for the Advanced Local Media v. Cohere case. Fact discovery to close on Feb. 27, 2026. All discovery including expert discovery to close on July 24, 2026. Related Stories Read more

April 11, 2025
OpenAI gains procedural advantage with transfer of all copyright suits to MDL court. Slows litigation.

OpenAI is taking full advantage of the transfer of all copyright litigation to Judge Stein, who presides as the MDL court over all the cases. Some of the plaintiffs are eager to close discovery on July 31, but OpenAI contends that’s premature under MDL procedure. OpenAI has already scored one victory with Magistrate Judge Wang’s Read more

April 11, 2025
Suno seeks same discovery from music labels as Udio: artist-label WMFH agreements and deposit copies of sound recordings. Music labels can’t be happy

Udio just scored a major discovery victory in the case against it filed by UMG Recordings. Judge Hellerstein granted Udio’s motion to compel UMG Recordings’ deposit copies of their sound recordings that underlie their copyright infringement claims against Udio. But, what’s even worse for the music labels, is that the order also grants Udio’s motion Read more

April 11, 2025
Judge Martinez denies Jason Allen’s attorney’s motion to withdraw. Lawsuit challenges U.S. Copyright Office view of AI-generated works and authorship through prompt engineering.

Out in the District of Colorado we finally have some recent news in the declaratory judgment action filed by Jason Allen, whose prompt-engineered visual work was denied copyright registration based on the Copyright Office’s strict view that “prompts alone” cannot generate a work of authorship based on the current AI generators. Allen seeks a federal Read more

April 10, 2025