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Judge Hellerstein orders record labels to produce deposit copies of registered works and artist-label agreements. The latter relevant to ownership. Udio scores major discovery win.
A major discovery victory for Udio, the AI music generator. Judge Hellerstein judge granted Udio’s motion to compel the Plaintiff recording labels to produce not only (1) deposit copies of their sound recordings relevant to their claims, but also (2) all artist-label agreements regarding ownership and work-made-for-hire for the works at issue in the case. Read more
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Kadrey book authors to Meta: Illegal file sharing of pirated book datasets is not fair use. File sharing is separate use from AI training.
The Kadrey Plaintiffs, represented by David Boies’ law firm, filed its reply in support of their own motion for partial summary judgment on the issue of Meta’s alleged infringement in engaging in putatively illegal file sharing (via torrenting) of “shadow libraries” consisting of millions of copies of “pirated books.” The Kadrey brief is well-written and Read more
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Judge Wu tentative ruling: Sufficient allegations Elon Musk committed copyright infringement in alleged use of Blade Runner 2049 image for Tesla promotion
Today, Judge Wu heard oral argument on Elon Musk’s, Tesla’s, and Warner Brother Discovery’s motions to dismiss the lawsuit filed by Alcon Entertainment. I haven’t heard what happened at the hearing today, but Judge Wu did issue a thorough 36-page opinion discussing his tentative rulings. For a summary of this fascinating dispute over an AI-generated Read more
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Is AI making us dumb?
Wall St. Journal writer Sam Schechner wrote an interesting article titled “How I Realized AI Was Making Me Stupid–and What I Do Now.” Schechner tapped into a fear that I have for my students and all students more generally: cognitive offloading, the process by which humans avoid critical thinking or tasks requiring complex thought by Read more
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Sparing no expense, ROSS Intelligence hires even more lawyers for its interlocutory appeal of Judge Bibas’s fair use denial to Third Circuit
Fresh off its successful motion for leave to seek interlocutory appeal of Judge Bibas’s denial of fair use, ROSS Intelligence hired even more lawyers to prepare the potential appeal. The lawyers are from Pillsbury: “Kayvan Ghaffari in San Francisco, who represented ROSS as lead counsel in the case at a prior firm, Silicon Valley partner Read more