September 25, 2024
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.
September 25, 2024
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."
August 22, 2024
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.
January 25, 2024
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?"
January 01, 2024
Legal experts following Golden State courts in 2024 are tracking groundbreaking lawsuits against artificial-intelligence developers brought by content creators, high-stakes antitrust cases against BigTech companies, and a wave of fresh litigation over the scope of California's Private Attorneys General Act.
January 01, 2024
Love it or hate it, the growing adoption of generative artificial intelligence tools has given society no choice but to grapple with their novel challenges, and in 2024, trailblazing litigation over AI's impact on intellectual property, civil liberties and privacy will be hashed out in courtrooms across the country.
December 13, 2023
Comedian Sarah Silverman and several authors have launched a revised copyright infringement claim alleging that Meta trained its "Llama" AI model using copyrighted works, shortly after a California judge ruled the brunt of an initial complaint was "not viable."
November 20, 2023
A California federal judge on Monday threw out the bulk of comedian Sarah Silverman's copyright suit against Meta stemming from its artificial intelligence product LLaMA, calling her theories of liability "not viable," but giving her and two other authors the opportunity to amend and refile most of their claims.
November 09, 2023
A California federal judge indicated Thursday he'll dismiss with leave to amend part of a copyright suit against Meta brought by comedian Sarah Silverman and two other authors over the tech giant's AI product LLaMA, including a claim for vicarious infringement the judge called "clearly meritless."
September 19, 2023
Meta Platforms Inc. wants a California federal court to mostly toss a copyright suit from stand-up comedian Sarah Silverman and a pair of authors over its AI product LLaMA, saying using words to train the system is fair use.