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US federal judge for the Northern District of California known for rulings in major tech and AI copyright litigation.
A single order matched a week of sales at one Northumberland shop. The legal machinery behind it turns clean pre-LLM text into a purchasable commodity with a jurisdictional price.
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A bookseller's tracker ended up at a Las Vegas warehouse where Amazon staff cut books off their spines. The rumour publishers could not price now has a named party.
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OpenAI and Microsoft accuse Susman Godfrey, the plaintiffs' firm in the consolidated AI copyright suit, of paying for research and hiding the payment. At stake is the kind of market-dilution evidence a federal judge said last year that authors suing Meta had not presented.
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Washington has filed on the side of fair use in the Times case against OpenAI, and the passage that matters to anyone shipping on scraped text is its estimate of who could still afford to train if licensing won.
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Justice's September 1 filing in the consolidated OpenAI MDL calls model training extraordinarily transformative. It binds no judge, which is precisely why its work shows up in the price of a licence rather than in the law.
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Sony Music and Warner Chappell want up to $150,000 for each of thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of songs, and they argue in the filing that the $1.5bn Anthropic already paid was too small to deter anyone valued at $2 trillion.
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The publisher's complaints against Suno and Anthropic plead DMCA circumvention beside infringement, which moves a buyer's diligence question onto the corpus rather than the filter.
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Alsup found Anthropic's training lawful and penalised the pirating of the books, so the exposure in an AI roadmap is the chain of custody for the data, and whether the output competes with its source.
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