@AdamEisgrau
@adameisgrau.bsky.social
#FairUse fighter for @ChamberofProgress’ Generate & Create campaign. JD, Hill staffer, long-time tech wonk. Amateur photographer, jazz lover, art junkie, avid house plant killer.
BREAKING: @AdvanceLocal.com Media has defeated on all ©-related counts @Cohere.com's Motion to Dismiss its Complaint for both direct and secondary infringement, as well as "inducement."
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
BREAKING: @AdvanceLocal.com Media has defeated on all ©-related counts @Cohere.com's Motion to Dismiss its Complaint for both direct and secondary infringement, as well as "inducement."
@Meta.com won on fair use in Kadrey but it's still potentially liable for illegally distributing their works via "torrenting," the large scale of wh/plaintiffs say has become clearer over time. Judge Chhabria's just granted more discovery on that, per plaintiffs' 10/29 Motion:🧵
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
@Meta.com won on fair use in Kadrey but it's still potentially liable for illegally distributing their works via "torrenting," the large scale of wh/plaintiffs say has become clearer over time. Judge Chhabria's just granted more discovery on that, per plaintiffs' 10/29 Motion:🧵
Can't say it straighter than @AnneliseLevy in @BLaw.com: ClaimsHero clearly messed w/the wrong judge in defending its scheme to "lure" Bartz settlement-eligible authors into opting out of the plaintiff class. Calling it "a fraud of immense proportions," Judge Alsup ordered a halt:
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Can't say it straighter than @AnneliseLevy in @BLaw.com: ClaimsHero clearly messed w/the wrong judge in defending its scheme to "lure" Bartz settlement-eligible authors into opting out of the plaintiff class. Calling it "a fraud of immense proportions," Judge Alsup ordered a halt:
BREAKING: @OpenAI.com's Battle of the User Logs is back in today's news. Judge Wang has set 11/19 for their Reply to @NYTimes.com 11/12 Opposition to their recon motion. BUT, she won't stay her 11/7 Order. @NYTimes.com says 20M logs are due tomorrow. Details below:🧵
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November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
BREAKING: @OpenAI.com's Battle of the User Logs is back in today's news. Judge Wang has set 11/19 for their Reply to @NYTimes.com 11/12 Opposition to their recon motion. BUT, she won't stay her 11/7 Order. @NYTimes.com says 20M logs are due tomorrow. Details below:🧵
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A German court's ruling against OpenAI.com inlcudes truly ugly (and clearly AI development-hostile) potential damages math. If just 1000 unlawful outputs of each of the 9 songs at issue were compensible, liability could top $2.6 *billion* (US), reports @MLexclusive.com:
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A German court's ruling against OpenAI.com inlcudes truly ugly (and clearly AI development-hostile) potential damages math. If just 1000 unlawful outputs of each of the 9 songs at issue were compensible, liability could top $2.6 *billion* (US), reports @MLexclusive.com:
@OpenAI.com's Chief Info Sec Officer published this letter today in response to the @NYTImes' efforts in court to access 20 million ChatGPT user logs. He writes "Your private conversations are yours—and they should not become collateral in a dispute over online content access."
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November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
@OpenAI.com's Chief Info Sec Officer published this letter today in response to the @NYTImes' efforts in court to access 20 million ChatGPT user logs. He writes "Your private conversations are yours—and they should not become collateral in a dispute over online content access."
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@Suno.com recently sought dismissal of country musician Anthony Justice's © infringement suit generally for failing to state a case and particularly for showing that any of his actual works were infringed. Justice has just filed his Opposition to that Motion:
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@Suno.com recently sought dismissal of country musician Anthony Justice's © infringement suit generally for failing to state a case and particularly for showing that any of his actual works were infringed. Justice has just filed his Opposition to that Motion:
@OpenAI.com has just asked Judge Wang to vacate her 11/7 Order that it produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT output logs arguing "neither common sense nor" the FRCP "justify the forced production of a massive trove of irrelevant personal user conversations": 🧵👀
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
@OpenAI.com has just asked Judge Wang to vacate her 11/7 Order that it produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT output logs arguing "neither common sense nor" the FRCP "justify the forced production of a massive trove of irrelevant personal user conversations": 🧵👀
BREAKING: A Munich Regional Court has just ruled that the text & data mining exception in Art 4 of the EU Copyright Directive doesn't apply to @OpenAI.com's model training, leaving it liable for model memorization and infringing outputs:🧵
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November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
BREAKING: A Munich Regional Court has just ruled that the text & data mining exception in Art 4 of the EU Copyright Directive doesn't apply to @OpenAI.com's model training, leaving it liable for model memorization and infringing outputs:🧵
www.reuters.com/world/germa...
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NDCA Judge Wm Alsup is very much still presiding over the preliminarily approved settlement in Bartz v @AnthropicAI.com and has just blasted counsel for making unilateral edits to the notice to be provided class plaintiffs, which he disallowed:
November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
NDCA Judge Wm Alsup is very much still presiding over the preliminarily approved settlement in Bartz v @AnthropicAI.com and has just blasted counsel for making unilateral edits to the notice to be provided class plaintiffs, which he disallowed:
This week's UK High Court ruling for @StabilityAI.com in @Getty.com's © infringement suit authoritatively finds that gen AI models don't copy or store the works they're trained on; they transform them. That's big!
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
The High Court’s Getty v Stability AI Ruling: Landmark, Limited, or Both?: - Chamber of Progress
Earlier this week, Getty Images lost what was left of its United Kingdom copyright infringement case against Stability AI. While the commercial image giant
progresschamber.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This week's UK High Court ruling for @StabilityAI.com in @Getty.com's © infringement suit authoritatively finds that gen AI models don't copy or store the works they're trained on; they transform them. That's big!
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
As reported (and AI-summarized) by @MLexclusive.com, © infringement suits v gen AI developers have now reached Denmark with @Suno.com now in a Scandinavian court.
See the 2d post in this 🧵 for a @Google translation of plaintiff rights group Koda's statement, provided by @MLexclusive:
See the 2d post in this 🧵 for a @Google translation of plaintiff rights group Koda's statement, provided by @MLexclusive:
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
As reported (and AI-summarized) by @MLexclusive.com, © infringement suits v gen AI developers have now reached Denmark with @Suno.com now in a Scandinavian court.
See the 2d post in this 🧵 for a @Google translation of plaintiff rights group Koda's statement, provided by @MLexclusive:
See the 2d post in this 🧵 for a @Google translation of plaintiff rights group Koda's statement, provided by @MLexclusive:
NEW CASE: Just as we were running out of cases to cover (NOT so much), comes @Entrepreneur.com Media to the rescue with a new NDCA suit v @Meta.com for direct and contributory © infringement +DMCA breach with a now familiar litany of claims:🧵
November 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
NEW CASE: Just as we were running out of cases to cover (NOT so much), comes @Entrepreneur.com Media to the rescue with a new NDCA suit v @Meta.com for direct and contributory © infringement +DMCA breach with a now familiar litany of claims:🧵
This week's UK High Court ruling for @StabilityAI.com in @Getty.com's © infringement suit authoritatively finds that gen AI models don't copy or store the works they're trained on; they transform them. That's big!
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
The High Court’s Getty v Stability AI Ruling: Landmark, Limited, or Both?: - Chamber of Progress
Earlier this week, Getty Images lost what was left of its United Kingdom copyright infringement case against Stability AI. While the commercial image giant
progresschamber.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
This week's UK High Court ruling for @StabilityAI.com in @Getty.com's © infringement suit authoritatively finds that gen AI models don't copy or store the works they're trained on; they transform them. That's big!
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
My colleague @KayJebelli and I explain why:
progresschamber.org/insights/hi...
Zoom! Judge Chhabria's wasted not a moment in approving the parties' request for a roughly one-month extension to process new info that came to light in discovery per my post below. Order just issued!
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November 6, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Zoom! Judge Chhabria's wasted not a moment in approving the parties' request for a roughly one-month extension to process new info that came to light in discovery per my post below. Order just issued!
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Interesting find in the discovery weeds of the Kadrey case. @Meta.com's found more info re "torrenting" which it's pursuing so it can be fully disclosed. Noting that will take a time, the parties jointly have proposed a one-month calendar bump mostly in summary judgment filings:
November 6, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Interesting find in the discovery weeds of the Kadrey case. @Meta.com's found more info re "torrenting" which it's pursuing so it can be fully disclosed. Noting that will take a time, the parties jointly have proposed a one-month calendar bump mostly in summary judgment filings:
BREAKING: @Salesforce.com faces a new class action Complaint for © infringement by author Tasha Alexander much like that in Tanzer filed 3 weeks ago. Both claim direct © infringement for downloading pirated copies of books to train a gen AI model and market displacement: 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 8:50 PM
BREAKING: @Salesforce.com faces a new class action Complaint for © infringement by author Tasha Alexander much like that in Tanzer filed 3 weeks ago. Both claim direct © infringement for downloading pirated copies of books to train a gen AI model and market displacement: 🧵
Last August, a settlemenmtwas reached in Vacker v @ElevenLabs.com and further proceedings were stayed. It's now official; case closed:
www.courtlistener.com/docket/6911...
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November 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Last August, a settlemenmtwas reached in Vacker v @ElevenLabs.com and further proceedings were stayed. It's now official; case closed:
www.courtlistener.com/docket/6911...
www.courtlistener.com/docket/6911...
@DCNorg.org: if you're going to blast (doc on left) a serious policy proposal (doc on right) you should *read* it first.
@ProgressChamber.org didn't ask POTUS to "declare" AI-training fair use; we urged him to have DoJ defend fair use in "all appropriate" AI cases.
"Radical"? No...🧵👀
@ProgressChamber.org didn't ask POTUS to "declare" AI-training fair use; we urged him to have DoJ defend fair use in "all appropriate" AI cases.
"Radical"? No...🧵👀
November 6, 2025 at 4:28 PM
@DCNorg.org: if you're going to blast (doc on left) a serious policy proposal (doc on right) you should *read* it first.
@ProgressChamber.org didn't ask POTUS to "declare" AI-training fair use; we urged him to have DoJ defend fair use in "all appropriate" AI cases.
"Radical"? No...🧵👀
@ProgressChamber.org didn't ask POTUS to "declare" AI-training fair use; we urged him to have DoJ defend fair use in "all appropriate" AI cases.
"Radical"? No...🧵👀
14 leading © scholars have just filed a pointed amicus brief w/ SCOTUS urging it to order the US @CopyrightOffice to grant Dr. Stephen Thaler a © in the wholly AI-generated work below: "A Recent Entrance to Paradise"....
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November 4, 2025 at 11:20 PM
14 leading © scholars have just filed a pointed amicus brief w/ SCOTUS urging it to order the US @CopyrightOffice to grant Dr. Stephen Thaler a © in the wholly AI-generated work below: "A Recent Entrance to Paradise"....
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CDCA Judge John A. Kronstadt's presiding over both @Disney.com's and @WarnerBros.com's currently separate recent ©/gen AI suits against @Midjourney.com. The parties, however, have just stipulated to their consolidation "for all purposes":
November 4, 2025 at 10:19 PM
CDCA Judge John A. Kronstadt's presiding over both @Disney.com's and @WarnerBros.com's currently separate recent ©/gen AI suits against @Midjourney.com. The parties, however, have just stipulated to their consolidation "for all purposes":
.@Nvidia has pushed back hard against multiple authors' efforts to dramatically expand their © infringement claims against the company:
November 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
.@Nvidia has pushed back hard against multiple authors' efforts to dramatically expand their © infringement claims against the company:
.@Perplexity has just moved to "edit" the © Complaint against it by @Britannica and @MerriamWebster... 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
.@Perplexity has just moved to "edit" the © Complaint against it by @Britannica and @MerriamWebster... 🧵
Case dismissed! Guess that settlement and partnership deal were real!
The case is, oops *was* ...
UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Uncharted Labs, Inc., 1:24-cv-04777, (S.D.N.Y.)
www.courtlistener.com/docket/6887...
The case is, oops *was* ...
UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Uncharted Labs, Inc., 1:24-cv-04777, (S.D.N.Y.)
www.courtlistener.com/docket/6887...
November 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Case dismissed! Guess that settlement and partnership deal were real!
The case is, oops *was* ...
UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Uncharted Labs, Inc., 1:24-cv-04777, (S.D.N.Y.)
www.courtlistener.com/docket/6887...
The case is, oops *was* ...
UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Uncharted Labs, Inc., 1:24-cv-04777, (S.D.N.Y.)
www.courtlistener.com/docket/6887...
@AnthropicAI.com's hoping to defeat CMG's claim of 2dary © infringement by its outputs by, they hope, being able to document that plaintiffs hadto "torture" its models many, many times to produce output substantially similar to training inputs. This discovery ruling should help:
November 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
@AnthropicAI.com's hoping to defeat CMG's claim of 2dary © infringement by its outputs by, they hope, being able to document that plaintiffs hadto "torture" its models many, many times to produce output substantially similar to training inputs. This discovery ruling should help: