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Youngblood v. Meta, Youngblood v. NVIDIA Complaints. 2 new DMCA suits v. AI companies. Total hits 80 cases v. AI cos. in US.
Devin Youngblood, Nicole Chmura, and Chris Rice, YouTube video creators, sued Meta and Devin Youngblood alone sued NVIDIA in separate lawsuits last week for alleged violations of the DMCA anti-circumvention provision, Section 1201(a). For whatever reason, Youngblood already voluntarily dismissed his lawsuit against NVIDIA. DOWNLOAD COMPLAINT IN YOUNGBLOOD v. META DOWNLOAD COMPLAINT IN YOUNGBLOOD v. Read more
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Judge Stein reverses Magistrate Judge’s ruling on OpenAI’s attorney-client privilege to deletion of Books 1, 2 datasets. Judge Stein: no waiver by OpenAI. Lisa Blatt secures huge win for OpenAI.
Judge Stein issued the long-awaited decision on OpenAI’s appeal of Magistrate Judge Wang’s ruling that OpenAI waived its attorney-client privilege as to the deletion of Books 1, 2 datasets. It’s a complete reversal and a major win for OpenAI, who hired Supreme Court litigator Lisa Blatt to brief the appeal. Trial attorney Robert Van Nast Read more
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Music labels and Spotify sue shadow library Anna’s Archive for copyright infringement and secure a default. AI Lawsuits hit 77 in US.
The music labels led by Atlantic Recording Corp. and Spotify sued the shadow library Anna’s Archive earlier in January 2026. This is AI copyright lawsuit No. 77 in the United States. This lawsuit follows Anna Archive’s reported scraping of tracks from Spotify: They already have secured a default because Anna’s Archive failed to respond after Read more
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Judge Wu allows copyright suit v. Elon Musk to proceed. Alcon Entm’t alleges Musk infringed copyright for Bladerunner 2049 movie.
After a hearing, Judge Wu adopted his tentative ruling as his final ruling, rejecting Elon Musk and Tesla’s motion to dismiss the copyright suit filed by the movie studio Alcon Entertainment. This was no surprise. Read more
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Judge Wu’s tentative ruling rejects Elon Musk’s motion to dismiss copyright claim related to Bladerunner 2049 scene
Alcon Entertainment v. Tesla and Elon Musk appears about to get past the motion to dismiss stage. Finally. We are on the Third Amended Complaint. Judge Wu issued his tentative ruling: the movie studio behind Bladerunner 2049 has made sufficient allegations that Elon Musk and Tesla infringed the studio’s copyright by using an image substantially Read more
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Sam Altman calls Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercials funny but “clearly dishonest”
Sam Altman took to X to say that he thought Anthropic’s Super Bowl commercials were funny but “clearly dishonest.” It didn’t sound like he was happy about the portrayal of OpenAI’s decision to use ads in chats, which Altman says was misleading — portraying exactly what OpenAI “won’t do.” Read more