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Month: October 2025

OpenAI fails to strike output, pirate library arguments from copyright infringement class action

October 29, 2025

Judge Sidney H. Stein of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York has allowed plaintiffs to proceed with a multidistrict copyright infringement class action against OpenAI, based on the arguments that it created infringing works in the outputs of OpenAI’s LLM products and that it downloaded copies from so-called shadow…
EXCLUSIVE: lead counsel Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey on $1.5B Anthropic settlement

October 28, 2025

In an exclusive interview with ai fray, Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey discussed the $1.5 billion settlement Bartz v. Anthropic copyright class action settlement that he was lead counsel for (on the plaintiff side), including why he decided to get involved in the case, the precedents it will set, and how authors can understand whether…
‘That is theft, it’s pure theft’: an interview with Susman Godfrey AI lawyer Justin Nelson, co-lead counsel in $1.5B Anthropic matter

October 28, 2025

Susman Godfrey’s Justin Nelson, first-chair trial counsel for a class of copyright holders in a $1.5 billion action against Claude AI maker Anthropic, sat down with ai fray to discuss his work on the settlement, how authors can find out if they are a member of the class, and the impending future of AI litigation.
German xAI/Grok injunction poses fundamental legal threat to all AI chatbots in Germany: liability for falsehoods

October 13, 2025

A preliminary injunction against Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok for spreading “falsehoods” could make it very difficult for AI chatbots to operate in Germany, given their level of hallucination.

Month: October 2025

OpenAI fails to strike output, pirate library arguments from copyright infringement class action

EXCLUSIVE: lead counsel Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey on $1.5B Anthropic settlement

‘That is theft, it’s pure theft’: an interview with Susman Godfrey AI lawyer Justin Nelson, co-lead counsel in $1.5B Anthropic matter

German xAI/Grok injunction poses fundamental legal threat to all AI chatbots in Germany: liability for falsehoods