Category: Bartz et al. v. Anthropic
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OpenAI fails to strike output, pirate library arguments from copyright infringement class action
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…
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EXCLUSIVE: lead counsel Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey on $1.5B Anthropic settlement
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…
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‘That is theft, it’s pure theft’: an interview with Susman Godfrey AI lawyer Justin Nelson, co-lead counsel in $1.5B Anthropic matter
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.
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“Fair settlement”: federal judge allows book authors’ $1.5B ($3K/book) agreement with Claude AI maker Anthropic to be implemented
Judge William H. Alsup of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California is now in favor of the largest-ever copyright class-action settlement.
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$1.5B Anthropic-book author settlement: approval postponed, should never be taken for granted, but trial still appears unlikely
Approval of the record $1.5B AI copyright settlement between book authors and Anthropic has been postponed. and still appears very likely.
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Anthropic’s record $1.5B+ copyright settlement is a great deal for book authors that doesn’t sound the death knells on Generative AI
Book authors get $3,000 for each copyright work that Anthropic had obtained illegally, a very good deal for writers, but no threat to the future of AI.
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BREAKING: Anthropic settles book authors’ copyright class action — win for lawyer who got Fox to pay $800M for falsehoods about voting machines
Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey settled Dominion v. Fox in 2023 and has now struck the next major settlement representing book authors against Anthropic.
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Anthropic draws judge’s ire in book authors’ multi-billion-dollar copyright case: “if Anthropic loses big it will be because what it did wrong was also big”
Judge Alsup has denied Anthropic’s motion for a stay and seized the opportunity to set the record straight on what the case is about and what his objective is.
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New Anthropic motion wants book authors’ copyright case to become first AI fair use appeal on U.S. West Coast (Ninth Circuit)
Anthropic won summary judgment against a class of book authors on whether LLM training constitutes fair use, but wants to appeal its loss over using pirated works.
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Claude AI maker Anthropic bags key “fair use” win for AI platforms, but faces trial over damages for millions of pirated works
Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson’s class action against Anthropic will proceed to trial, despite the Northern District of California finding most of the AI platform’s use of the book authors’ works was “fair”.