Kadrey et al v. Meta Platforms, Inc.
Case Number:
3:23-cv-03417
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Firms
- Arnold & Porter
- Boies Schiller
- Cafferty Clobes
- Cleary Gottlieb
- Coblentz Patch
- Cooley LLP
- DiCello Levitt
- Frankfurt Kurnit
- Joseph Saveri Law Firm
- Lieff Cabraser
- Mintz & Gold
- Morrison & Foerster
- Oppenheim & Zebrak
- Paul Weiss
- Pryor Cashman
- Quinn Emanuel
- Sidran Law Corp
- Tycko & Zavareei
- Ventura Hersey
Companies
- Association of American Publishers
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- HarperCollins Publishers LLC
- Meta Platforms Inc.
- OpenAI OpCo LLC
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February 28, 2025
Judge Denies OpenAI's Bid For Discovery In Meta's IP Fight
A California federal judge rejected OpenAI's request to see discovery produced in Meta Platforms Inc.'s copyright battle with authors over its artificial intelligence tool, writing Thursday that the "broad swath of information" it requested is not proportional to the company's needs in its own case.
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February 27, 2025
Meta's Held-Back Docs In AI Suit Merit Discovery, Authors Say
The California federal judge overseeing a proposed class action claiming Meta Platforms Inc. is using copyrighted material to train its large language model product said Thursday he will consider allowing the author plaintiffs more discovery in response to the tech giant's assertion that it had "inadvertently" held back up some 18,000 documents.
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February 06, 2025
Meta AI Used 'Astonishing' Load Of Pirated Works, Writers Say
Meta Platforms allegedly downloaded tens of millions of pirated copyrighted works from peer-to-peer networks to train its Llama artificial intelligence product, and its employees repeatedly discussed this "illegal" strategy with lawyers, with one engineer writing, doing so "from a corporate laptop doesn't feel right," according to internal communications unsealed in copyright infringement litigation Wednesday.
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January 14, 2025
Meta Atty Quits IP Case Over Zuckerberg's 'Toxic Masculinity'
An attorney helping defend Meta Platforms in copyright litigation brought by artists who claim their content was used to train the large language model Llama has dropped the tech company as his client, citing Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's "descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness" in a LinkedIn post.
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January 09, 2025
Judge Rips Meta's 'Grossly Overbroad' AI Sealing Requests
A California federal judge appeared open Thursday to allowing authors to amend their copyright infringement proposed class action to include allegations Meta nefariously removed copyright disclaimers from tens of millions of books in creating its Llama artificial intelligence product, while criticizing Meta's "grossly overbroad" sealing requests as illegitimate attempts at avoiding bad publicity.
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January 08, 2025
Meta Slams 'Alarming' AI Discovery Demands In IP Fight
A proposed class of authors urged a California magistrate judge Wednesday to order Meta to produce certain datasets used to fine-tune its artificial-intelligence product Llama in their high-stakes copyright fight, while Meta's counsel slammed the discovery demands for being belated, speculative and placing an "alarming level of burden" on Meta.
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September 25, 2024
In-House Counsel To Play Central Role At AI Cos., VCs Say
Venture capital firms expect in-house counsel at artificial intelligence companies to play a bigger role in their businesses due to regulatory uncertainties around AI, while a professor who helped pioneer the technology warned that transparency of commercial AI businesses should be "top of mind," attorneys heard at the seventh annual Berkeley Law AI Institute Wednesday.
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September 25, 2024
Boies Joins Authors' Meta IP Suit After Judge Blasts Lead Atty
Veteran litigator David Boies and a top member of his firm have joined the team heading a proposed class action against Meta Platforms Inc. for allegedly using copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence product "Llama" — days after a California federal judge told the lead plaintiff's attorney, "You are not doing your job."
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August 22, 2024
Authors Can't Use Discord Chats In Meta AI Copyright Suit
A California federal judge Thursday granted Meta Platforms Inc.'s request for an order shielding a former part-time researcher's communications on Discord from discovery requests in authors' proposed class copyright action over Meta's artificial intelligence product, holding that the communications pertain to legal advice.
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January 25, 2024
'What's The Point?': Meta AI Judge Doubts Lead Counsel Bid
A California federal judge on Thursday questioned a request to appoint the Joseph Saveri Law Firm to be interim lead counsel in putative class copyright litigation against Meta from comedian Sarah Silverman and other authors over the tech giant's AI product, saying before there's a certified class, "What's the point?"
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