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Lessons Learned from 2024 and the Year Ahead in AI Litigation

Debevoise Data Blog

But this new era of AI has not come without controversy, as authors and rights holders have launched waves of litigation against the companies that trained and released generative AI models, as well as their investors and affiliates, alleging violations of intellectual property rights. 1] Proving Defendants Use of Training Data Inputs.

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Judge Rejects SAD Scheme Joinder–Toyota v. Schedule A Defendants

Eric Goldman

Toyota brought a SAD Scheme case against 103 defendants before Judge Daniel in the Northern District of Illinois. If these justifications sound familiar, it’s because these are the generic rotely-made defendant-unspecific allegations that are copied and pasted into most SAD Scheme complaints. Seriously, Toyota? Do better).

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Dueling Legal Tech Lawsuits: Turns Out Exec Who Sued Former Company in NY Had Herself Been Sued By them A Week Earlier in Dallas

Above the Law - Technology

As I reported yesterday, the plaintiff in the New York case, Silvia Diaz-Roa , filed the lawsuit against Hermes Law , a Texas law firm, and ClaimDeck , a litigation management system for insurers and insurance-defense firms that spun out of Hermes Law. “It is my understanding Ms.

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Litigation Analytics Company Gavelytics is Shutting Down Tomorrow

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Today brings news that Gavelytics , a seven-year-old litigation analytics company, is closing its doors effective tomorrow. We built things never before built and answered litigation-related questions never before answerable. The hardest stories I have to report are the ones about legal tech startups that are forced to shut down.

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Journalists’ Lack of Harm Fatal to DMCA Claims Against AI Developer

Debevoise Data Blog

Judge Colleen McMahon of the Southern District of New York dismissed plaintiffs’ suit in its entirety, holding that plaintiffs had no cognizable claim for damages or injunctive relief because they failed at this stage of litigation to demonstrate that they had been harmed in any way by OpenAI’s actions. 2020); Stevens v. 2022), cert.

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An Early Win for Copyright Owners in AI Cases as Court Rejects Fair Use Defense

Debevoise Data Blog

Thomson Reuters filed suit back in 2020, alleging that ROSS had used its copyrighted Westlaw headnotes and other materials as training data for ROSS competing legal AI product. Defendants could have more success on the first fair use factor, purpose and character, in the context of a generative AI model.

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Retweeting as Copyright Infringement–Prepared Food Photos v. Chicken Joe’s

Eric Goldman

Here is the original retweet as it appears now, reflecting some of Twitter’s product “enhancements” since 2020: Thus, this case raises the issue of whether a retweet can constitute copyright infringement. A liberal interpretation of the Copyright Act, therefore, could open the floodgates to endless litigation.

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