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Judge Chhabria consolidates Kadrey, Farnsworth suits v. Meta. David Boies firm lead counsel, Lieff Cabraser as additional counsel.

Judge Chhabria granted the motion to consolidate the two book author lawsuits against Meta Platforms, Kadrey v. Meta and the recently filed Farnsworth v. Meta. David Boies’s firm is appointed interim lead counsel with Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein serving as additional counsel. Somewhat unclear what role the Joseph Saveri Law Firm, which had originally Read more

October 18, 2024
Judge Hixson grants Kadrey plaintiffs 21 more depositions if 2/3 completed in November and all by Dec. 13. Meta gets 8 more depositions.

Magistrate Judge Thomas Hixson gave the Kadrey plaintiffs most, but not all, of the additional depositions they requested. The plaintiffs requested 31 additional depositions, but received 21 by Judge Hixon’s grant. Meta got its 8 additional depositions (but did not prevail on limiting the plaintiffs to 16 total as well). But Judge Hixson made it Read more

October 16, 2024
Meta seeks stay of Farnsworth “copycat” case, opposes consolidation with Kadrey

After David Boies’ law firm representing the book author plaintiffs in Kadrey v. Meta and lawyers from Lieff Cabraser representing the plaintiff in the newly filed Farnsworth v. Meta asked Judge Chhabria to consolidate the two cases, Meta’s attorneys just filed their opposition. Bobby Ghajar of Cooley LLP and fellow Meta’s lawyers write to Judge Read more

October 15, 2024
New York Times sends Perplexity, AI search, cease and desist letter to stop scraping NYT content

In a report by the Wall Street Journal, the AI search engine Perplexity received a cease and desist letter from the New York Times, which alleges that Perplexity is using NYT content without permission: “Perplexity and its business partners have been unjustly enriched by using, without authorization, The Times’s expressive, carefully written and researched, and Read more

October 15, 2024
David Boies firm asks to be interim lead counsel, with Lieff Cabraser assisting in consolidated cases before Judge Chhabria

The law firms of Boies Schiller Flexner and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP submitted a letter in the Kadrey v. Meta and Farnsworth v. Meta lawsuits asking Judge Chhabria to consolidate the two requested class action lawsuits brought by book authors against Meta Platforms. In their letter, David Boies’s firm states that the two Read more

October 14, 2024
ROSS Intelligence, Thomson Reuters briefs on fair use. Download PDFs.

In Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence, a case involving the latter’s AI model for legal decisions, the parties filed their respective motions of summary judgment. Probably the key issue will involve whether ROSS’s use of some of Thomson Reuter’s copyrighted headnotes for uncopyrightable judicial decisions is a fair use. Of course, the parties have diametrically Read more

October 11, 2024