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Court grants extension of time, until Feb. 4, 2025, for Elon Musk, Tesla, Warner Bros. Discovery to reply to Alcon Entertainment’s complaint
Judge Wu granted Elon Musk, Tesla, and Warner Brothers Discovery until Feb. 4, 2024 to respond to the complaint filed by Alcon Entertainment for the defendants’ alleged use of still image from the plaintiffs’ movie Blade Runner 2049 after being denied a license for it. Read more
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Getty Images says Stability AI refuses to commence discovery in Getty Images v. Stability AI
The docket in Getty Images v. Stability has been dormant for over 2 months. Now we may know why. Getty Images submitted a letter to Judge Jennifer Hall, alleging that “Defendants have refused to participate in a Rule 26(f) conference or to otherwise commence merits discovery.” The letter doesn’t indicate Stability’s position, but it presumable Read more
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Magistrate Judge Van Keulen defins “Claude” for discovery in Concord Music v. Anthropic
Similar to an issue that arose in terms of the scope of the injunction sought by Concord Music at the hearing this week, Magistrate Judge Van Keulen resolved a discovery dispute by defining what the AI model “Claude” is for the purposes of discovery. Read more
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Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) sues Caseway AI in Canada
Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII), a provider of a legal database to cases, statutes, and legal commentary, sued the AI company Caseway AI on November 9 for alleged copyyright infringement in scraping CanLII’s content, about 3.5 million records, to train Caseway AI’s model. This case sounds similar to the U.S. lawsuit Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Read more
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Judge Lee holds marathon hearing re: preliminary injunction motion in Concord Music v. Anthropic
Yesterday, Judge Eumi Lee held a marathon hearing to hear arguments regarding the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction in Concord Music v. Anthropic, a copyright suit filed by music publishers against Anthropic for alleged infringement in the training and alleged regurgitated lyric outputs of Anthropic’s AI model, Claude. And by marathon I mean it Read more