At their request, Plaintiffs' cases have been consolidated in @TedEntertain.com and Chmura v @Snap.com under the Ted docket number. Co-Lead Counsel in the action also have been approved:

@UMG.com v @SunoMusic.com Plaintiffs just flagged the SDNY's ruling this week in @sonymusic.com v @udiomusic.com that a DMCA §1201 claim may proceed re whether tech "circumvented" to scrape works barred access (protected) or copying (not). @UMG wants that count added to its suit: 🧵

Co-defendant @Perplexity.com has been granted a June 30 oral argument on its mid-March Motion to Dismiss @Reddit.com's First Amended Complaint alleging violation of DMCA §1201 in three ways.

With @astmintl.bsky.social v @upcodes.bsky.social now back at the District Court in the wake of the 3d Circ's fair use-favorable interlocutory ruling, Judge Kenney's approved the parties' joint 60-day deadline bump request filed just yesterday: www.courtlistener.com/docket/68500...

@ThomsonReuters.com has rebutted @ROSS.com's citation of @ASTMIntl.com v @Upcodes.com, filed 4/7 with the 3d Cir., claiming the case supports them on: transformativeness, commerciality, nature of the work & market effect. 3d Cir argument on the merits is set for June 11.

Plaintiffs @GracenoteData.com and @Britannica.com & @MerriamWebster.com, by stipulation, just asked that their cases be stayed in In Re: @OpenAI.com, Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation, SDNY Judges Stein and Wang's multi-district action, until decision on pending summary judgment motions.

I recently spotlighted @UMG.com's claims of market dilution by gen AI works nothwithstanding trumpeting their own proof of just the opposite to shareholders. natlawreview.com/article/uni.... On that data, a new @AnthropicAI.com Motion wants @UMG's dilution "expert"'s input tossed. It's solid:🧵

@UdioMusic.com's bid to get @UMG.com's DMCA §1201 claims of "circumventing" an "effective technological protection measure" dismissed have failed in the the required presumption that plaintiffs' factual allegations are true. The Court thus held them "plausible" but TBD at trial:🧵

The coming fair use showdown in Concord v @AnthropicAI.com just got more consequential as Judge Lee has ruled @BMGrights.com Management's mid-March suit against the company to be formally related to it. Amicus filings for @AnthropicAI.com are due 4/27; summary judgment argument's 7/15/26. 🧵

30 years ago, 126 nations forged the 1996 WIPO Copyright Treaty. The US fought for & won America's right to evolve fair use in the digital age & the world rejected © maxing arguments being made again v gen AI makers. Now, it's our courts' turn to say no: progresschamber.org/insights/co...

Looks like @YouTube.com's picking up where Sora left off. "Reimagine" turns single frames into 8 second videos (with original content producer attribution, not incidentally)... www.instagram.com/p/DXEjHl2gCQ7/

SCOTUS' opinion on 2dary © liability in Cox v Sony is an instant landmark. As Aaron Moss assesses for @copyrightlately.com, we're already seeing its influence in two actions by @Disney v defendants Nanoble and Minimax + "SXJT," who now seek dismissal:🧵 x.com/copyrightla...

BREAKING... apart, that is. Judge Chhabria, noting that "defendants...are obviously improperly joined," has just dismissed all remaining defendants save @Meta.com from Chicken Soup for the Soul v @AnthropicAI.com (previously severed), ordering plaintiffs to refile separate Complaints anew:

Precedent is powerful. SCOTUS just applied Cox v Sony to flip the 5th Circuit’s finding of secondary ISP liability in the Grande case: arstechnica.com/tech-policy...

Kudos and *thanks* to @edleeprof.edu and his team @SantaClaraLaw.edu on their new searchable gen AI case tracker. With 100 domestic, and many more international, cases pending it'll be a great tool for gen AI case nerds (and real people) everywhere: chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/aicopyright...

Late last year, Both @Suno and @UdioMusic.com were named in separate "kitchen sink" ©/DMCA/state law class actions by David Woulard and other musicians/songwriters. Both moved to dismiss or transfer the cases to the SDNY. That's now fully briefed with Udio's latest filing:

In an unusual move near year's end, and in a single Complaint, author John Carreyrou sued six major gen AI developers for direct © infringement during model training. Plaintiff's now his publisher (the © owner) + the suit added Apple and @Nvidia.com, which now seeks to sever its case:

BIG: The 3d Circuit has ruled in @ASTMIntl.com v UPCODES that publication of ASTM building codes subsequently adopted in law is likely transformative fair use. The opinion could hint at its pending ruling in @thomsonreuters.com v @ROSSIntel.com and precedentially interprets Warhol....🧵

@Nvidia.com has moved to dismiss the first of now 7 pending DMCA-only cases brought by @TedEntertain.com against a host of gen AI developers, all of which will turn per the DMCA on whether the tech used to protect ©d works scraped for gen AI training controlled "access" or copying.

BREAKING: Sanctions deferred, not denied rules Judge Ona Wang in the OpenAI © Infringement MDL, finding a key technical witness for @OpenAI.com wasn't prepared to be deposed on the crucial issue of model "memorization." She ordered another 3.5hr depo and could yet levy sanctions:

MA Magistrate Judge Levenson has decided a dozen discovery dust-ups in UMG v @Suno.com, denying 10 requests: UMG won't get to collect docs from a broader date range or probe Suno's Warner settlement and neither side gets additional doc custodians, but @Suno.com lost on 8 requests:

Plaintiffs have amended their Complaint in Concord II, the follow-on suit v. Anthropic + D. Amodei and B. Mann personally, to beef up charges that the founders knew torrented "pirated" works were being used to train their models, BUT it's not clear the the case will turn on that:

@TedEntertain.com et al have just added @Apple.com to their now half-dozen strong collection of class action defendants in multiple cloned actions alleging "circumvention" of access (not copy) control tech to scrape plaintiffs' content from YouTube in breach of DMCA §1201(a):

The Fourth Amended Complaint *very* grudgingly OK'd by Judge Chhabria a few days ago's just been filed in Kadrey v @Meta.com for a galaxy of star author plaintiffs who opted out of the historic Bartz settlement and a TBD class of other authors. Details linked & below...🧵⤵️ x.com/AdamEisgrau...

Judge Eumi Lee is also mulling whether there will be a 2d Battle of Concord fought behind but in parallel with July's Concord I fireworks. @Anthropic.com's moved to stay Concord II and just filed its Reply to plaintiffs' opposition arguing Concord I may well decide key issues:🧵

The battle of Concord is coming ...v @AnthropicAI.com, that is. On 7/15, NDCA Judge Lee will hear opening salvos on cross-motions for summary judgment in the watershed case. Fai⤵️r use is in the crosshairs. New amicus briefs for Concord preview the fight. @AnthropicAI.com's friends file by 4/27:🧵👀

@OpenAI.com's decision to shutter Sora made good biz sense, says @TechCrunch.cm editor @AnthonyHa.bsky.social in conversation w/ colleagues, and puts the lie to overblown fears that such gen AI tech will replace the Hollywood we know: techcrunch.com/2026/03/29/...

How about a voice generator on your smart watch (and other devices) that speaks/translates 9 languages with almost no input to generation lag time? @MistralAI.com says "here it is," @TechCrunch.com reports: techcrunch.com/2026/03/26/...

Agentic AI? Meet music. More specifically, meet autonomously **directing** and creating a music video w/ @FreebeatAI for your newly minted song, @barchart reports. Slop? More like🎤drop: www.barchart.com/story/news/...

BREAKING: @Meta.com has failed to convince Judge Chhabria (of Kadrey v Meta fame) that several counts of @TedEntertain.com's Complaint should be dismissed at this early stage of the case. So, contributory copyright infringement and DMCA 1202(b) counts remain in play for substantive consideration:

@Reddit.com's succeeded in beating @AnthropicAI.com's Copyright Act preemption arguments against remanding its state-law based Complaint back to San Francisco Superior Court where it began. Did floodgates to state-based actions v. Gen AI developers just swing open?🧵

Gen AI training datasets need *every* kind of data to boost breakthroughs like super-fMRIs'. Entertainment's a small part of them, but "copynopolist" studios, labels, publishers are suing to hold key data for ransom. Fair use says our health comes first: x.com/Marktechpos...

Chair @AFergusonFTC.gov has copyright monopolists' number: hiding behind individual creators to justify wringing rents from facts used for gen AI training defeats ©'s purpose of promoting "progress" and thwarts innovation. He's not buying it:

Let's untangle Carreyrou, I mean Cambronne, v @AnthropicAI.com...I mean v @Google.com, @Meta.com, @OpenAI.com, @PerplexityAI.com + @xAI.com and, newly, @Apple.com and @NVIDIA.com. Former Judge Pitts severed @OpenAI from the tangle as other defendants also asked. Plaintiffs opposed. They've replied:

The DMCA-only cases brought against @RunwayML.com by Ace Cam and Businessing for allegedly violative scraping of their content from YouTube have just been consolidated by order of SDNY's Judge Lewis Kaplan. Per usual, all previously set dates wont he proceedings have been vacated:

One day's all the time @Meta.com needed to file a Motion for Leave with NDCA Judge Eumi Lee to file notice of SCOTUS' blockbuster decision in Cox v Sony as a whopper of a related case in @Strike 3 v @Meta.com, noting that its new standard for contributory liability is *very* germane:

Is there such a thing as a "quad-fecta"? If so, the Chicago firm of Millberg, PLLC has apparently hit it filing not just the DMCA-based action I flagged earlier v @Meta, but cookie-cuttering it to also file separately v @Nvidia, @Microsoft and @Roblox, a new gen AI © defendant:

NEW CASE: @Meta.com’s just been sued in a new NDCA class action under the DMCA by the creators of 3D models posted online per Creative Commons licenses that, plaintiffs say, bar scraping for Gen AI training.

J. Chhabria has scaldingly OK'd Kadrey plaintiffs' motion for a *fourth* Amended Complaint...*despite* the "failure" and "lame excuse" for it by marquee counsel, Boies Schiller, ironically brought in early in the case b/c of original counsel Saveri's mismanagement!🧵🙄👀

BREAKING: SCOTUS has refused to extend secondary copyright liability to ISPs for their users’ infringements in ways that could have spelled trouble for gen AI developers, @BLaw reports:

Judge Eumi Lee just got plaintiff's Motion for Summary Judgment in Concord v @Anthropic and heard counsel 3/20 on Anthropic's 3/10 Motion to Stay Concord II b/c SJ + other rulings in Concord I will guide that case's path. Plaintiff's Oppo to the stay request also landed today:🧵

@AnthropicAI.com's playing case relation chess. It won't object to Chicken Soup for the Soul being joined to Cambronne (the renamed suit brought v. all major gen AI developers by author John Carreyrou, BUT then will ask to tie that case tied to Bartz: www.courtlistener.com/docket/7206...

BREAKING: Concord Music Group, + co-plaintiff labels w/in @UMG.com and others, want Summary Judgment v @AnthropicAI.com on direct infringement for inputs & outputs + fair use as we near a July 15 hearing. Harm to licensing markets and "dilution" both figure big in todays' filing: 🧵

It *won't* be precedent for the many other pending ©/gen AI cases pending but songwriter Jerry Anders' infringement Complaint v @StabilityAI.com for training models on his material has been dismissed with prejudice. The Court found that nothing in Anders' license prohibited that use:

AMICUS ALERT: The next big event in the gen AI and Fair Use universe is likely to be the 7/15 hearing in Concord v Anthropic. The first Summary Judgment filing is due 3/23; the last by 6/8. Amicus motions WITH briefs are due 3/30 and 4/27 for @AnthropicAI.com: www.courtlistener.com/docket/6888...

@Suno.com's Motion to Dismiss DMCA + and state counts in Justice v @Suno was just argued in MA. Plaintiffs mostly speechified re a direct infringement count @Suno.com doesn't seek to dismiss and fair use now premature. No questions were asked by the Judge. My live post 🧵here: x.com/AdamEisgrau...

BIG: "Hands off fair use for gen AI training!" says the WH's new National Policy Framework for AI VERY clearly to Congress. It also proposes they "consider enabling licensing" BUT "should *not* address when or whether such licensing is required." EXACTLY!🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/...

It was seismic in Nov '25 when a Dist Judge tossed publishers' DMCA-only [§1202(b)] case v @OpenAI.com for failing to show harm that gave them standing to sue. Yesterday, @AnneliseLevy reports for @BLaw, the 2d Circ. was skeptical. Early days but DMCA could become a super-© law:🧵👀

This just in: All of the parties in In Re: @OpenAI.com Copyright Infringement Litigation, the massive MDL in the SDNY, have just petitioned Judge Stein by letter for 3 weeks more time to file summary judgment pleadings given an estimated 35-40 anticipated expert report filings...🧵👀

Motions to Dismiss in @Disney.com v Chinese gen AI developer Minimax will be heard before CDCA Judge Stanley Blumenfeld no later than May 29, per his new Order from chambers extending the briefing schedule by request of the parties: