The record
The court cases over what AI systems may train on and quote — rulings here redraw the economics of the answer engines.
Six items in three weeks, and the direction is toward narrower theories rather than settled law. Two judges reached opposite results on near-identical DMCA anti-circumvention claims against the same scraper within days: Google's case against SerpApi was mostly dismissed, while Reddit's suit against Perplexity and SerpApi survived dismissal in the Southern District of New York. The Ninth Circuit then reversed the injunction barring Perplexity's Comet browser from Amazon.com, holding that the user, not Perplexity, directs the Assistant's access. In the consolidated OpenAI copyright litigation, the court denied the New York Times, Daily News and Ziff Davis leave to revive contributory-infringement claims against Microsoft. Training-data claims and the antitrust remedy remain live.
34 items on the wire, newest first.
Times Publishing Company, the corporate publisher of the Tampa Bay Times, sued OpenAI and Microsoft on Sept. 16 in the Southern District of New York…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 16 · · Law & Money
Authors and publishers who declined the Bartz v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 15 · · Law & Money
Summary judgment briefing — the filings asking a judge to rule without a trial — is complete in Concord Music v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 15 · · Law & Money
The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a claim that GitHub's Copilot coding assistant violated copyright law by stripping copyright management…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 16 · · Law & Money
Anthropic filed its opposition to Daniel Benjamin Gilbert's motion to dismiss the company's fair-use counterclaim in his pro se copyright suit over his…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 11 · · Law & Money
Katelyn Gray filed a shareholder derivative suit against Satya Nadella, other Microsoft directors and officers, and Microsoft itself on Sept. 9 in the…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 9 · · Law & Money
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed a joint copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft on Sept. 4 in the Southern District of New York, the same day…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 5 · · Law & Money, SEO
ROSS Intelligence filed a Rule 28(j) letter of new authority with the Third Circuit on Sept. 4, pointing the panel to the U.S. Department of Justice's…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 4 · · Law & Money
Class counsel in the Bartz v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 2 · · Law & Money
The U.S. Department of Justice filed a Statement of Interest on Sept. 1 in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, before Judge Sidney Stein…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Sep 2 · · Law & Money
Sony Music Publishing sued Anthropic in the Northern District of California on August 28, alleging direct copyright infringement via torrenting…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 29 · · Law & Money
Daniel Benjamin Gilbert, proceeding pro se in his copyright suit against Anthropic after opting out of the Bartz class settlement, has filed a covenant…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
Perplexity has raised a First Amendment defense in Reddit's DMCA suit against it and SerpApi, following the same move Anthropic made in the Gilbert…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
News/Media Alliance, the Association of American Publishers, and the International Association of Scientific, Technical & Medical Publishers filed a joint…
Via News/Media Alliance ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
SerpApi filed a motion on August 28 to dismiss Google's First Amended Complaint, per Chat GPT Is Eating the World.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
Judge Rita Lin granted Anthropic summary judgment on its First Amendment challenge to the U.S. Department of War's designation of the company as a "supply…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 28 · · Law & Money
The Bartz v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 27 · · Law & Money
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta — who previously ruled that Google holds an illegal monopoly in search — said at a Tuesday hearing that Google's use of…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Aug 26 · · Law & Money, Google Search
A federal judge denied Google's request for attorneys' fees after publishers Cengage and Hachette withdrew their motion to intervene in the multidistrict…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 22 · · Law & Money
Perplexity asked a court to dismiss Counts II through V of CNN's copyright complaint — everything except the claims tied to Perplexity's training-data…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 22 · · Law & Money
wikiHow filed a copyright suit against OpenAI, alleging infringement in both OpenAI's training inputs and its responses to user queries, plus vicarious…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 22 · · Law & Money
Anthropic has filed an amended Answer to the copyright complaint from Daniel Gilbert, author of "Hacking World of Warcraft," who opted out of the Bartz…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 20 · · Law & Money
The American Federation of Musicians has dropped its lawsuit against Warner Music Group, while its claims against Universal Music Group continue, per Chat…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 20 · · Law & Money
A First Amended Complaint in Shakespeare v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 19 · · Law & Money
The Publishers' Coordination Counsel has filed a notice of appeal to the Ninth Circuit challenging the denial of its attorneys' fee award in the Bartz v.
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 19 · · Law & Money
Textbook author Michael Sullivan and other writers sued OpenAI for copyright infringement in the Southern District of New York on August 14, alleging…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 14 · · Law & Money
The Alliance de la Presse d'Information Générale (APIG), representing nearly 300 French newspapers, filed a complaint with France's competition authority…
Via Search Engine Land ↗ · Aug 11 · · Law & Money, Google Search, AEO
Google filed a First Amended Complaint against scraper SerpApi on August 11, adding new allegations to try to revive the DMCA anti-circumvention claim…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 11 · · Law & Money
Joel Thayer, president of the Digital Progress Institute, and Asad Ramzanali, a former White House OSTP official, filed a 34-page amicus brief on August 4…
Via PPC Land ↗ · Aug 8 · · Law & Money, Google Search
A federal judge overseeing the consolidated In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation denied the New York Times, Daily News, and Ziff Davis leave to…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 7 · · Law & Money
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a preliminary injunction that had barred Perplexity AI's agentic browser Comet from operating on Amazon.com…
Via Chat GPT Is Eating the World ↗ · Aug 5 · · Law & Money
A federal judge in the Southern District of New York denied Perplexity and SerpApi's motions to dismiss Reddit's DMCA anti-circumvention claims, per Ars…
Via Ars Technica AI ↗ · Jul 31 · · Law & Money
A federal judge dismissed most of Google's DMCA anti-circumvention claims against scraper SerpApi, ruling that SearchGuard, Google's anti-bot system…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 28 · · Law & Money
A proposed class action alleges Google trained Gemini on copyrighted books without authorization, joining an unusually crowded month of AI-training…
Via Search Engine Journal ↗ · Jul 17 · · Law & Money
