Allegation: News publishers ask the court to give the Justice Department's fair-use statement no weight, saying it ignored the case record and the Copyright Office

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Court ruling: Kadrey v. Meta: judge rules training Llama on these thirteen authors' books was fair use, on a record with no evidence of market harm

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Court ruling: Kadrey v. Meta, 2023: judge dismisses every claim except the one for copying the authors' books to train LLaMA

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Court order: Two individual defendants, Guillaume Lample and Joelle Pineau, are dismissed without prejudice from Hobbs v. Meta

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Company filing: Meta's answer in Hobbs v. Meta admits downloading LibGen by direct download and by torrent, and that some data was uploaded

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Reported: ROSS Intelligence reportedly plans to ask the Supreme Court to review the Third Circuit ruling that its AI training was not fair use

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Company filing: Joint filing: authors who opted out of the Bartz settlement and Anthropic agree to private mediation, to be held by June 14, 2027

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Court order: Magistrate judge denies bid by authors and publishers suing Meta to get torrenting, licensing and market evidence from OpenAI and Anthropic

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Defendant's filing (argument): Dario Amodei asks the court to dismiss the music publishers' direct torrenting claim against him; Anthropic moves against the output and CMI claims only

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Allegation: Music publishers file a second suit against Anthropic, Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann, alleging they torrented books of lyrics and sheet music from LibGen and PiLiMi

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Court order: Judge denies music publishers' request to add BitTorrent claims to their first suit against Anthropic

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Court order: Magistrate judge orders Anthropic to give music publishers the text and metadata of its LibGen and PiLiMi datasets and the unredacted Bartz briefs

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Court order: Judge lets authors amend their complaint against Meta to add claims tied to its alleged torrenting of LibGen, and orders Meta to give testimony on seeding

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Company filing: Joint letter: authors in Hobbs v. Meta agree to transfer their suit to the Northern District of California, following the Elsevier transfer

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Allegation: Authors who opted out of the Bartz settlement oppose Anthropic's motion to dismiss, arguing the BitTorrent uploads were part of the same downloads Bartz litigated

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Company filing: Meta's interrogatory answers: it downloaded LibGen directly as well as by torrent, and later bought and scanned the plaintiffs' books to train its Muse models

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Allegation: Authors suing OpenAI drop a market-dilution study from their case, while denying their lawyers funded it

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Allegation: Authors suing OpenAI drop a market-dilution study from their case, while denying their lawyers funded it

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Court order: Magistrate judge: authors and publishers suing Meta need not spell out, book by book, their market harm, which right was infringed, or the facts of Meta's torrent uploading

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Court order: Magistrate judge: authors and publishers suing Meta need not spell out, book by book, their market harm, which right was infringed, or the facts of Meta's torrent uploading

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