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Adam Eisgrau

@adameisgrau
12 posts
2025-11-04
BREAKING IN THE UK: @GettyImages, @MLex reports, has lost its remaining © claims v @StabilityAI in Britain's High Court. Fair Use, a US construct, doesn't apply but the idea of “transformativeness” may de facto figure in the ruling, though not by that name or by statute...🧵⏬... [image]
2025-11-04 View on X
Reuters

The UK's High Court rules against Getty in its lawsuit against Stability AI over its image generator; the judge calls the ruling “extremely limited in scope”

Getty Images largely lost its landmark lawsuit against artificial intelligence company Stability AI over its image generator at London's High Court on Tuesday.

2025-10-23
It's odd for a plaintiff to sue an AI developer *only* for DMCA breaches, but that's what a new SDNY case, @Reddit v @PerplexityAI and several 3d party data scrapers, is about calling @PerplexityAI's scraping of @Google search results “akin to a 'North Korean hacker"'s MO: 🧵⤵️ [image]
2025-10-23 View on X
New York Times

Reddit files a lawsuit against Perplexity and three data scraping companies, accusing them of illegally stealing its data by scraping Google search results

comparing them to “bank robbers” and accusing them of sidestepping its controls to scrape its data and get rich off the AI gravy train. https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Andrew ...

2025-09-07
FOUR KEY TAKEAWAYS from the newly unveiled Bartz v @AnthropicAI proposed settlement include: 1) Plaintiffs see themselves as underdogs in the case, staring down the specter of past cases in which fair use prevailed on trial: [image]
2025-09-07 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books

Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the AI company's downloading …

2025-09-06
FOUR KEY TAKEAWAYS from the newly unveiled Bartz v @AnthropicAI proposed settlement include: 1) Plaintiffs see themselves as underdogs in the case, staring down the specter of past cases in which fair use prevailed on trial: [image]
2025-09-06 View on X
Bloomberg

Filing: Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5B plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books

Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the AI company's downloading …

2025-08-27
2) @AnthropicAI's decision to settle the case doesn't settle a big point contested in it: whether fair use can only be made of material lawfully obtained. As the 2d Circ's Judge Leval wrote in 1990, that's not the function of © law and fair use. https://www.jstor.org/...
2025-08-27 View on X
Bloomberg Law

Filing: Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded

Anthropic PBC reached a settlement with authors in a high-stakes copyright class action that threatened the AI company with potentially billions of dollars in damages.

JUST IN: Judge Alsup has just cancelled Thursday's previously scheduled hearing and ordered argument for what will presumably be pro forma approval of the Bartz settlement for Monday, September 8: [image]
2025-08-27 View on X
Bloomberg Law

Filing: Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded

Anthropic PBC reached a settlement with authors in a high-stakes copyright class action that threatened the AI company with potentially billions of dollars in damages.

The Bartz settlement raises two points that bear emphasis: 1) the Copyright Act's excessive statutory damages (up to $150k per work/per use) are innovation killers and clearly produce settlements under duress, especially as magnified by overbroad class certification; and . . .
2025-08-27 View on X
Bloomberg Law

Filing: Anthropic reached a settlement in a copyright class action brought by authors whose works were included in two pirate databases Anthropic downloaded

Anthropic PBC reached a settlement with authors in a high-stakes copyright class action that threatened the AI company with potentially billions of dollars in damages.

2025-06-25
BIG AND BREAKING: @Anthropic wins its Motion for Summary Judgment on fair use grounds, Judge Alsup rules, but a trial will follow on potential damages for the use of “pirated” material from the internet Details to follow, but here's the literal bottom line: [image]
2025-06-25 View on X
ai fray

A US judge rules Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train AI was fair use, but its storage of pirated books in a central library for training LLMs was not

but it's still in trouble for stealing books Blake Brittain / Reuters : Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit Jason Koebler / 404 Media : Judge ...

2025-01-10
The warning comes in restrained language at the very end of a brief but blistering Order issued yesterday denying @Meta's efforts to seal docs ahead of a hearing today on heavily briefed motions and counter-filings re plaintiffs' request to file a 3d Amended Complaint: [image]
2025-01-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg approved the Meta team that trains AI Llama models to use data from LibGen, a “links aggregator” to pirated, copyrighted material

Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light …

The Order, while preserving @Meta rights to file a renewed but more limited request to seal material, also pointedly said that any overreach in doing so would result in all disputed docs being summarily unsealed by the Court! [image]
2025-01-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg approved the Meta team that trains AI Llama models to use data from LibGen, a “links aggregator” to pirated, copyrighted material

Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light …

JUDGE THREATENS @META W/ SANCTIONS IN KADREY CASE! —NDCA Judge V. Chhabria is fed up with what he clearly considers abusive delay tactics by @Meta in seeking to seal discovery docs, calling their requests “preposterous” and obliquely, but unmistakably, warning it to stop now... [image]
2025-01-10 View on X
TechCrunch

Court docs: Mark Zuckerberg approved the Meta team that trains AI Llama models to use data from LibGen, a “links aggregator” to pirated, copyrighted material

Counsel for plaintiffs in a copyright lawsuit filed against Meta allege that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg gave the green light …

2024-11-24
Deconstructing @TheIntercept Dismissal Order - We'll have to wait for Judge Rakoff's opinion for his reasoning, but his Order taking @Microsoft out of the case and narrowing claims against @OpenAI makes the following implicitly clear: https://www.courtlistener.com/ ... [image]
2024-11-24 View on X
The Intercept

A federal court allows a claim by The Intercept that DMCA prevents OpenAI from stripping a story's title or byline but throws out its claims against Microsoft

Shawn Musgrave / The Intercept :