Allegation: Anthropic's reply: opt-out authors' claims are too late, eight works were released in Bartz, and the complaint describes what BitTorrent can do, not what Anthropic did
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@payauthors.bsky.socialAllegation: Anthropic's reply: opt-out authors' claims are too late, eight works were released in Bartz, and the complaint describes what BitTorrent can do, not what Anthropic did
@payauthors.bsky.socialCourt order: Judge Chhabria refuses to push back briefing on textbook authors' bid for their own interim class counsel in the Meta case; the hearing date stands
@developingprocess.bsky.socialARIA warns that weakening copyright laws for Big AI would turn Australia into a Trojan horse for copyright exploitation. #aicopyright
@payauthors.bsky.socialCourt order: Judge hears argument on Google's bid to move the publishers' Gemini suit from New York to California and reserves decision
@aeowire.bsky.socialUSA Today's parent and 13 affiliated papers sued OpenAI Oct. 8 for $250M+, the fifth publisher copyright suit against OpenAI logged here since mid-August. Via The Verge AI. #AIpolicy #AIcopyright
@payauthors.bsky.socialAllegation: Fox asks the court to shield its AI training license with Meta from authors and publishers, and to make them destroy unredacted copies Meta produced by mistake
@payauthors.bsky.socialCompany filing: ROSS Intelligence tells the Third Circuit it will petition for rehearing en banc of the ruling that its AI training was not fair use, and asks for until Nov. 3
@payauthors.bsky.socialCompany filing: Meta's verified answers name the executives who approved buying and scanning physical books under its "Project Vellum"
@payauthors.bsky.socialCompany filing: Meta's verified answers name who approved using LibGen and Anna's Archive data for Llama, and say it knows of no one who decided to upload
@payauthors.bsky.socialAllegation: Authors say Meta has produced no server command logs from its torrenting and ask the court to make it say whether any were deleted; Meta says it is still searching
@payauthors.bsky.socialAllegation: Publishers suing Meta oppose textbook authors' bid for their own interim class counsel, calling it premature and unnecessary
@payauthors.bsky.socialAllegation: Authors ask for more time to question Meta's corporate witness on torrenting, saying he could not answer basic questions
@payauthors.bsky.socialCourt order: Judge strikes the authors' supplemental expert report and bars them from relying on a market-dilution study in the OpenAI case
@payauthors.bsky.socialCompany filing: NVIDIA says its lawyers disclosed a further download made after the July 2024 discovery cutoff, and argues it does not justify reopening discovery
@payauthors.bsky.socialCourt order: Hobbs v. Meta is transferred out of New York after the judge signs the parties' transfer stipulation
@payauthors.bsky.socialCourt order: Magistrate judge sets a schedule in an opt-out author's solo suit against Anthropic: discovery through 2027, dispositive motions due Nov. 26, 2027
@payauthors.bsky.socialAllegation: Round Hill Music sues Anthropic, alleging the books it torrented from LibGen included hundreds containing Round Hill's lyrics and compositions
@payauthors.bsky.socialCourt order: Bartz v. Anthropic settlement: first round of payments expected on or before November 15, 2026, under a court-approved website update
@payauthors.bsky.socialCompany filing: Anthropic says it halted a 2022 training run to remove LibGen and PiLiMi books, and asks a court to declare its copying of an opt-out author's book fair use
@payauthors.bsky.socialAllegation: An author who opted out of the Bartz settlement sues Anthropic on his own in Massachusetts over the LibGen copy of his book