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November 04, 2025
Judge Tosses Perplexity Trademark Suit After Plaintiff Fails To Secure Counsel

SAN FRANCISCO — A California federal judge dismissed with prejudice a data analytics company’s trademark infringement complaint against artificial intelligence company Perplexity AI Inc. after the plaintiff entity repeatedly failed to heed court warnings that it could not appear pro se.
November 04, 2025
UMG Announces Agreement With Udio AI Music Platform, Resolving Copyright Claims

NEW YORK — Universal Music Group (UMG) announced a partnership under which its licensed music will power a subscription service with artificial intelligence music company Uncharted Labs Inc. d/b/a Udio.com and will resolve the music publisher’s portion of a copyright case just as a motion to dismiss was wrapping up.
October 16, 2025
COMMENTARY: A Time of Transformation: How AI And Emerging Legislation Are Changing The Disputes And Investigations Landscape

By Phil Beckett
October 14, 2025
COMMENTARY: Update On Algorithmic Collusion: Ninth Circuit Gives Guidance As Lower Courts Confront New Cases, Settlements, And Legislation Change Landscape

By Alex Okuliar, Rob Manoso and Tyler Phelps
November 03, 2025
AI Artist Seeks Hold Of Petition Pending Copyright Agency Leadership Decisions

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A man asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hold consideration of his petition for a writ of certiorari in a case challenging denial of copyright protection for an artificial intelligence-generated piece of artwork while courts decide whether Shira Perlmutter can continue to serve as head of the U.S. Copyright Office.
October 31, 2025
Louisiana Court Imposes Fresh Sanctions In AI Error Appeal

GRETNA, La. — In the wake of notice that a brief included artificial intelligence-generated fake errors, the lawyer doubled down and compounded the mistakes, a Louisiana appeals court said in affirming a sanction of $1,368 in attorney fees and imposing its own continuing legal education requirement as an additional sanction.
October 31, 2025
Government Won’t Reply To AI Image Copyright Protection Petition

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The federal government filed a notice that it was waiving its right to respond to a man’s petition for a writ of certiorari in which he tells the U.S. Supreme Court that copyright protections are in place to ensure dissemination of creative works to the public even when a human is not the owner and should apply to artificial intelligence-generated outputs for the same reasons.
October 30, 2025
Pornography Downloads Likely Personal Use, Not AI Training, Meta Claims

SAN FRANCISCO — The small amount of adult videos downloaded by IP addresses associated with Meta Platforms Inc. were likely downloaded for personal use and not for training artificial intelligence, the company says in asking a federal judge in California to dismiss copyright infringement claims.
October 30, 2025
Microsoft Says Suit Over End Of Windows 10 Tech Support Must Be Arbitrated

SAN DIEGO — Microsoft Corp. moved in California federal court to compel arbitration of a consumer’s suit accusing it of violating California’s unfair competition law (UCL) by discontinuing free technical support for users of its Windows 10 operating system (OS), which the plaintiff claims is a tactic to drive users onto newer Microsoft products that use artificial intelligence so it can “monopolize the generative AI market.”
October 28, 2025
AI Company To High Court: Federal Circuit Opinion Could Harm AI Patents

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A machine learning patent holder is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to consider the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals’ ruling on a matter of first impression that affirmed the invalidation of the patents for describing the abstract concept of machine learning without pointing to specific improvements; the company tells the high court that the Federal Circuit’s approach to patent eligibility “flouts this Court’s instruction to consider preemption.”
October 28, 2025
OpenAI Must Face ChatGPT Output Copyright Claims, Judge Says

SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI entities must face class claims alleging that ChatGPT outputs material substantially similar to copyrighted works, the federal judge in New York overseeing the multidistrict litigation said Oct. 27.
October 28, 2025
Judge Won’t Award ‘Premature’ Attorney Fees, Wants Fake Cites Explained

PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal judge in Oregon on Oct. 27 found a request for an award of attorney fees based on striking counterclaims without prejudice premature and said the moving party must explain how its brief came to include fake cites likely caused by artificial intelligence.
October 28, 2025
Bettor Sues Horse Racing Betting Companies, Alleges Computer-Assisted Scheme

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A former horse racing bettor filed a putative class action suit against horse racing betting companies and certain computer-assisted wagering (CAW) companies, accusing them of participating in a scheme with a group of privileged bettors by using computer technology and algorithms based upon artificial intelligence to “rig” betting pools and divert money away from average bettors.
October 28, 2025
Pair Of New Class Actions Adds To Copyright Headaches For AI Companies

Two new class actions filed in California federal court are the latest challenges to companies’ use of data to train artificial intelligence, with plaintiffs in separate suits claiming that Apple Inc. and Salesforce Inc. used pirated copyrighted material as training data.
October 27, 2025
Judge Joins Cases Against Otter.ai Related To Notetaker App Privacy Concerns

SAN FRANCISCO — A judge in California federal court has consolidated litigation brought by individuals who argue that Otter.ai Inc. does not obtain prior consent of all participants in a virtual meeting before its Notetaker transcription app is engaged to record a conversation, ruling that claims brought by multiple plaintiffs involve substantially similar allegations and claims.
October 24, 2025
Judges Tell Senator Human Error And AI Led To Faulty Rulings

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley, R-Iowa, on Oct. 23 released letters he received from inquires into the use of artificial intelligence, with the Administrative Office overseeing federal courts’ consideration of rule changes underway and two judges admitting that the use of the technology caused two erroneous rulings.
October 23, 2025
Reddit Says Perplexity Evades Digital Defenses, Scrapes Data For AI

NEW YORK — In an Oct. 22 lawsuit filed in a New York federal court, Reddit Inc. says Perplexity AI Inc. and a trio of internet data scraping companies act as modern-day bank robbers by intentionally circumventing digital defenses and scraping the valuable content protected by those efforts.
October 22, 2025
Judge: No Contempt, But Lawyer Must Explain Brief’s Fake Cites

CLEVELAND — An attorney avoided contempt for what a judge termed the “inexcusable” delay in responding to a court order but will ultimately have to show cause why she shouldn’t be sanctioned for submitting fake citations likely created by artificial intelligence, a federal judge in Ohio said.
October 22, 2025
Judge: Pro Se Plaintiff May Not Use AI In Drafting Amended Complaint

PRESCOTT, Ariz. — A man may proceed in forma pauperis but must personally draft any amended complaint without using artificial intelligence after he filed what a federal judge in Arizona said appears to be a ChatGPT-created complaint listing legal authority and statutes but without any factual allegations.
October 22, 2025
Judge Issues Pro Se Plaintiffs Order To Show Cause In Wake Of Cite, Quote Issues

DENVER — Suggesting the possibility that two pro se plaintiffs used artificial intelligence to craft filings, a “deeply troubled” federal magistrate judge in Colorado ordered them to show cause how multiple filings came to be “rife” with fake citations, misstated legal principles and “improperly quoted material.”
October 21, 2025
Judge Lifts Arbitration Stay In Family’s Chatbot Negligence Suit

MARSHALL, Texas — A federal magistrate judge in Texas lifted a stay of one minor plaintiff’s strict liability and negligence claims against Character Technologies Inc. and others over the allegedly harmful effects the company’s chatbots have on minors after the plaintiff reported that the claims were found by an arbitrator to be outside the arbitration provision at issue.
October 20, 2025
AI Image App Bidder Wants Supreme Court To Look At ‘Interested Party’ Case

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Because only one court enjoys jurisdiction over government contract bidding process challenges, a divided en banc ruling defining who qualifies as an interested party will stand absent U.S. Supreme Court review, artificial intelligence image company Percipient.ai Inc. says in a petition for a writ of certiorari.
October 20, 2025
Minor Sues Over ClothOff AI That Turns Images Into ‘Hyperrealistic’ Porn

TRENTON, N.J. — A minor and her parents claim in a New Jersey federal lawsuit that defendants offer their ClothOff website as artificial intelligence capable of rendering nearly anyone nude without implementing the safeguards necessary to prevent the creation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) or nonconsensual intimate images (NCII).
October 20, 2025
Liberty Mutual Must Explain Why Briefs Included Citation Errors, Judge Says

ST. LOUIS — An insurance company must show why it should not be sanctioned for filing erroneous citations, at least one of which appeared twice, a federal judge in Missouri said in finding it “simply not credible” that the mistakes were clerical errors.
October 17, 2025
Unions Sue USCIS, DHS, ICE, State Department Over AI Social Media Surveillance

NEW YORK — Three labor unions on Oct. 16 sued the U.S. Department of State, the Department of Homeland Security, Citizenship and Immigration Services and Immigration and Customs Enforcement and their leaders in New York federal court, asserting that the defendants have “targeted” U.S.-based visa holders and permanent residents by using artificial intelligence (AI) surveillance of social media to “detect disfavored viewpoints and to take adverse immigration action based on those viewpoints” in violation of the First Amendment rights of “noncitizens lawfully present” in the United States.