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  • September 12, 2025

    Google AI Copyright Case Proceeds As Court Preps For AI Metadata Discovery Issue

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge on Sept. 11 dismissed with prejudice claims involving certain Google LLC artificial intelligence models and vicarious liability claims against parent company Alphabet Inc. but otherwise denied a motion to dismiss.  Earlier a magistrate judge said she would not take up artificial intelligence copyright plaintiffs’ request to appoint a special master but would hold a hearing on a motion to compel after plaintiffs complained that discovery lacked metadata critical to identifying copyrighted material.  Google LLC filed its response to the motion on Sept. 10, saying it had “gone above and beyond” what was required of it.

  • September 12, 2025

    Federal Trade Commission Opens Investigation Into Chatbot Safety

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In the wake of lawsuits accusing artificial intelligence chatbots of improper conduct, including contributing to children’s deaths by suicide, the Federal Trade Commission announced Sept. 11 that it was launching an investigation into the measures seven artificial intelligence chatbot companies take to monitor how children and teens use the technology.

  • September 11, 2025

    Designers, Shein Settle Claims Retailer Used AI To Misappropriate Works

    LOS ANGELES — A federal judge in California dismissed a case after eight independent designers reported having reached a binding settlement with Shein Distribution Corp. and related entities over claims that the retailer used an artificial intelligence algorithm to identify popular styles and then misappropriated copyrighted works.

  • September 11, 2025

    No Special Master, But Judge Will Hear AI Metadata Discovery Issue

    SAN JOSE, Calif. — A federal judge said she would not take up artificial intelligence copyright plaintiffs’ request to appoint a special master but would hold a hearing on a motion to compel after plaintiffs complained that discovery lacked metadata critical to identifying copyrighted material.  Google LLC filed its response to the motion on Sept. 10, saying it had “gone above and beyond” what was required of it.

  • September 10, 2025

    Judge: OnlyFans Class Must Show Why AI Errors Don’t Require Sanctions

    LOS ANGELES — Plaintiffs in a California unfair competition law and advertising class action challenging the use of professional chatters on the OnlyFans site must show why they shouldn’t be sanctioned after their counsel submitted a quartet of briefs with artificial intelligence-created errors, a federal judge in California said in an order to show cause.

  • September 10, 2025

    Superman, Tweety Bird Owners Sue Midjourney Over AI’s Outputs

    LOS ANGELES — Midjourney Inc. knowingly trains its artificial intelligence on copyrighted works and allows users to generate unauthorized reproductions despite having the technological prowess to prevent it, the owners of characters such as Batman, Superman, Bugs Bunny and Tweety Bird allege in a lawsuit filed in California federal court.

  • September 10, 2025

    Judge Questions Completeness Of $1.5B Settlement Between Authors, Anthropic

    SAN FRANCISCO — The federal judge overseeing the artificial intelligence copyright class action against Anthropic PBC questioned the completeness of the $1.5 billion settlement, expressing concerns that important questions remained that could not be answered in the timeframe proposed by the parties.  The judge postponed preliminary approval of the agreement until the parties could submit clarifying information.

  • September 10, 2025

    Woman Opposes Sanctions After Allegations Lawyers’ Use Of AI Led To Errors

    PHOENIX — A woman in an employment suit opposing a motion for sanctions based on various errors in court filings told a federal judge in Arizona that the mistakes were clerical in nature and not the result of using artificial intelligence and that it is the defendant’s litigation tactics that required sanctions.

  • September 10, 2025

    Pro Se Plaintiff Must Explain Fake Citations In Default Judgement Case

    BEAUMONT, Texas — A woman who admitted to using artificial intelligence must explain why her objection to a magistrate judge’s report contains false statements about serving the defendant in the case and case law that appears to be made up, a federal judge in Texas said.

  • September 08, 2025

    Authors, Anthropic Reach $1.5 Billion Settlement Of AI Copyright Class Action

    SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic PBC has agreed to pay no less than $1.5 billion to resolve claims it improperly pirated nearly half a million books while obtaining data for use in training its Claude artificial intelligence, a class of authors says in a Sept. 5 motion for preliminary settlement approval.

  • September 03, 2025

    Divided En Banc Court Bars Nonbidder’s Challenge to Federal AI Contract

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — The interested party provision in federal law allowing challenges to government contracts applies only to actual bidders and bars a prospective subcontractor from seeking to undo an artificial intelligence image and geospatial data contract, a divided en banc Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals affirmed.

  • September 03, 2025

    Judge Says Google Not Required To Divest Chrome In DOJ Antitrust Remedies Ruling

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a suit in which a District of Columbia federal judge determined that Google LLC violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act, the judge on Sept. 2 issued an opinion outlining remedies, including not requiring the divestiture of Google Chrome.  The judge accepted with modifications Google’s proposed remedies “in full” and adopted in part the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) and states’ proposed remedies.

  • September 02, 2025

    NetChoice Opposes Sanctions Over AI Allegations In Withdrawn Expert Report

    BATON ROUGE, La. — No sanctions are warranted for a motion targeting an expert report that has since been withdrawn and where a simple meet and confer would have eliminated the need for the filing at all, an internet trade association told a Louisiana federal judge.

  • September 02, 2025

    Disqualifying Lawyers Over Expert’s AI Misuse Too Harsh, Plaintiff Says

    SALT LAKE CITY — Mistakes are inevitable in any long-running litigation, and since neither the plaintiff nor his attorneys are responsible for the artificial intelligence-generated errors in an expert’s report, disqualification would be an unnecessarily drastic remedy, attorneys told a federal judge in Utah in opposing a motion for sanctions.

  • August 22, 2025

    COMMENTARY: International Arbitration And The EU AI Act

    By Natasha Tardif and Alexandre Shamloo

  • August 29, 2025

    Point Of Robots.txt Focus In Publishers’ AI Copyright Suit

    WILMINGTON, Del. — Whether the robots.txt file instructions barring bot scraping of websites constitutes a binding technical measure or simply directions that can be ignored came before a federal judge in New York, as OpenAI Inc. entities and a publisher of 45 media brands brief a motion to dismiss.

  • August 29, 2025

    AI Hotel Pricing Appellants Seek Rehearing After Court Finds No Antitrust Violation

    SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs in a proposed class action asked the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for additional time to seek rehearing of a ruling affirming dismissal of antitrust claims on the grounds that Las Vegas hotels’ adoption of algorithmic pricing software constituted parallel conduct and not an antitrust law violation.

  • August 28, 2025

    Parents Claim Intentional ChatGPT Design Choices Led To Son’s Suicide

    SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI entities intentionally designed ChatGPT to emotionally engage with users but without implementing sufficient safeguards, leading the AI to encourage a teenager to isolate from his family and commit suicide, his parents say in a California lawsuit alleging strict liability, negligence, wrongful death and violation of California’s unfair competition law (UCL).

  • August 28, 2025

    Filmmaker, Meta Dismiss Suit Claiming AI Falsely Parroted Jan. 6 Accusations

    WILMINGTON, Del. — A filmmaker who claimed that Meta Platforms Inc.’s Llama artificial intelligence incorrectly identified him as a participant in the Jan. 6 riot and that the company’s slow and ineffectual responses did little to correct the problem agreed to dismissal of the suit with prejudice, according to documents filed in Delaware court.

  • August 27, 2025

    Copyright Suit Parties Debate Relevance Of Newspaper’s AI Use

    NEW YORK — The New York Times Co., Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI entities sparred over whether the newspaper’s use of an in-house ChatGPT tool could constitute evidence of fair use defense in a copyright case or whether such use is noninfringing and not relevant to the claims in the New York federal court case.

  • August 27, 2025

    Anthropic, Authors Reach Agreement On AI Copyright Claims

    SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic PBC and authors told a federal judge in California on Aug. 26 that they reached an agreement in principle resolving claims that the company pirated copyrighted works during the process of obtaining material to train its artificial intelligence.

  • August 26, 2025

    Musk Entities Sue Apple, OpenAI For Antitrust Violations

    FORT WORTH, Texas — Apple Inc. and OpenAI entities struck an exclusive arrangement to dominate the smartphone and artificial intelligence markets and took steps to suppress competitors from appearing in Apple’s app store, two Elon Musk entities say in an Aug. 25 complaint in Texas federal court alleging violations of antitrust law.

  • August 20, 2025

    COMMENTARY: A Survey Of State Laws Regulating Third-Party Litigation Funding

    By Mark A. Behrens and Christopher E. Appel

  • August 22, 2025

    Judge: News Outlet’s Copyright Suit Against AI Search Engine Proceeds

    NEW YORK — A federal judge in New York found sufficient contacts between Perplexity AI Inc. and the state for jurisdiction, even if California would qualify as an equally viable jurisdiction, and declined to dismiss infringement claims involving 10 works that Dow Jones copyrighted after the filing of the suit.

  • August 22, 2025

    Individual Defendants Push Jurisdiction Flaws In AI Product Liability Suit

    ORLANDO, Fla. — A federal judge in Florida denied an immediate appeal of a ruling allowing product liability and other claims against artificial intelligence chatbots to proceed, while two AI cofounders argue in motions to dismiss that they have no connection to the state and there is no reason to pierce the corporate veil to create one.