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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
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Status of all 35 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Nov. 24, 2024): Concord Music v. Anthropic injunction hearing on Nov. 25; Thomson Reuters SJ hearing on Dec. 5. Standing becomes an issue. Cases march on.
Here’s the latest on all 35 copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Lots going on. Significant rulings Other developments Upcoming Hearings New developments since last week’s report are indicated with an asterisk*. Visit our Master List of all 35 copyright cases with attorneys and claims listed. Case name Jurisdiction Judge Latest status Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et Read more
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Magistrate Judge Wang denies OpenAI’s discovery motion seeking New York Times’ use of AI
In a major ruling in the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI, Magistrate Judge Ona Wang denied OpenAI’s motion to compel discovery of information relevant to New York Times’s own use of AI. OpenAI sought from the New York Times information related to “(1) the Times’s use of nonparties’ generative artificial intelligence (“Gen AI”) tools; Read more
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Judge Rakoff grants Microsoft’s motion to dismiss in full, but OpenAI’s motion in part. DMCA 1202(b)(1) claim v. OpenAI survives.
In The Intercept v. OpenAI, Judge Rakoff just issued his order granting Microsoft’s motion to dismiss the complaint in full with prejudice. But Judge Rakoff granted OpenAI’s motion only in part, allowing the DMCA Section 1202(b)(1) claim for intentional removal of CMI, but dismissing the Section 1202(b)(3) claim for “distribute, import for distribution, or publicly Read more