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July 18, 2025
Media Companies Appeal Whether AI MDL Required Revisiting DMCA Dismissal

NEW YORK — Two media companies filed a notice that they will ask the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to review a ruling dismissing a Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim against OpenAI Inc. and others as well as whether creation of a multidistrict litigation governing artificial intelligence copyright suits warranted reconsideration of the opinion.
July 18, 2025
Judge Certifies AI Class, Wants Response To Fair Use Appeal Motion

SAN FRANCISCO — In a pair of developments, a California federal judge on July 17 granted a class certification motion in an artificial intelligence copyright suit involving pirated works, saying “It will be straightforward to prove the classwide wrong done” and the case is the exact type that benefits from representative litigation. In an earlier ruling the judge asked for a response to Anthropic PBC’s motion for reconsideration or an interlocutory appeal of a ruling on the company’s fair use arguments.
July 17, 2025
Judge Says AI Photo Analysis Patent Not Abstract Per Alice Test

WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware federal judge rejected a defendant artificial intelligence company’s argument that the machine learning patents it is accused of infringing are invalid as abstract, agreeing with the insurance company patent holder that “the patents recite the patent-eligible arrangement of two independently trained classifiers to analyze property characteristics and conditions.”
July 17, 2025
Immigration Lawyer Hit With $1,000 Sanction For Fake AI Quotes

ALBANY, N.Y. — A federal judge in New York imposed a $1,000 sanction on an attorney for including fake quotes generated by artificial intelligence in a brief in an immigration case, crediting the attorney for taking responsibility but ultimately faulting him for not responding sooner.
July 16, 2025
Newly Amended MosaicML Copyright Claims Lack Specifics, Companies Say

SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs in a recently amended action involving artificial intelligence copyright claims make conclusory allegations but never actually link the training of the models to copyrighted works or the plaintiffs’ own works, two companies responsible for training large language models tell a federal judge in California in seeking dismissal of the action.
July 15, 2025
Judge: Fair Use Protects Anthropic’s Use Of Copyrighted Works

SAN FRANCISCO — The use of authors’ copyrighted works for training the large language models behind Anthropic PBC’s artificial intelligence was transformative and is akin to schooling children and constitutes fair use, leaving only allegations that the company pirated copies for inclusion in a digital library, a federal judge in California said in largely granting summary judgment to Anthropic.
July 15, 2025
Family: AI Output Speech Questions Interesting, But Not Appeal Worthy

ORLANDO, Fla. — First Amendment questions surrounding artificial intelligence outputs may be “controversial, important, or potentially influential for courts” but do little to further negligence and wrongful death litigation tying a child’s suicide to use of specially created AI characters and do not rise to the level requiring interlocutory appeal, a family told a federal judge in Florida in opposing immediate appeal on a ruling covering the First Amendment and aiding and abetting claims.
July 15, 2025
‘Sheer Number’ Of AI-Faked Cites Noted In Defense Fee Declaration In Disability Case

SANTA ANA, Calif. — In a July 14 defense fee declaration submitted at the direction of a California federal judge who imposed sanctions on a plaintiffs’ attorney for faked citations attributed to artificial intelligence, a disability insurer’s attorney said, “The sheer number of non-existent cases . . . was exponentially more than we have identified in any other cases discussing AI-generated and/or hallucinated cases.”
July 15, 2025
Independent Music Artist Sues AI Music Companies Over Copyright

In a pair of class lawsuits filed in federal courts in Massachusetts and New York, a country music artist and his recording company claim that artificial intelligence companies illegally copied his and other independent artists’ works, bypassing the type of licensing deals on which artists like himself rely.
July 15, 2025
Class Says OpenAI, Others Stole Copyrighted Works To Train AI

SAN FRANCISCO — Various OpenAI Inc. entities created their artificial intelligence ChatGPT by stealing copyrighted works from the internet rather than obtaining the material legally, plaintiffs allege in a class action filed in California federal court.
July 07, 2025
COMMENTARY: Recent Developments In AI-Related Laws And Regulations In China

By Lianjun Li and Jensen Chang
July 14, 2025
Musk’s Business Emails Subject To Email Discovery In AI Suit, Magistrate Judge Says

SAN FRANCISCO — Elon Musk’s business emails across the spectrum of companies where he serves as a high-level executive are not in the hands of third parties, and he is responsible for producing them in his suit against OpenAI Inc. and related entities, a federal magistrate judge in California said.
July 14, 2025
Judge Won’t Reconsider Ruling Denying Leave To Amend In AI Case

NEW YORK — News outlets will not get to amend their copyright action involving ChatGPT after a federal judge in New York determined that different rulings by other judges and the case’s inclusion in a recently created multidistrict litigation did not warrant revisiting denying leave to amend.
July 08, 2025
Judge Imposes Sanctions For AI Cites In Lindell Election Case

DENVER — A Colorado federal judge on July 7 imposed a pair of $3,000 sanctions against two defense attorneys after one of them submitted a “puzzlingly defiant” explanation for submission of a court document with 30 defective citations likely created by artificial intelligence. Earlier a jury in the case awarded a man $444,500 on claims that My Pillow LLC founder Mike Lindell defamed him by accusing him of rigging the 2020 presidential election.
July 08, 2025
Judge Won’t Consider Amicus Briefs In Deciding AI Speech Appeal Certification

ORLANDO, Fla. — Amicus curiae briefs are unhelpful in determining whether to certify an immediate appeal on the question of whether artificial intelligence chatbot outputs are protected speech, a federal judge in Florida said in a docket-only order denying a quartet of motions for leave to file amicus briefs in a case alleging that use of Character.AI led to a child’s suicide.
July 03, 2025
Georgia Court Imposes $2,500 Sanction After Fake Cites In Briefing

MARRIETTA, Ga. — A “deeply troubled” Georgia Court of Appeals imposed a $2,500 frivolous motion penalty on an attorney in a divorce case after finding artificial intelligence possibly responsible for a fake cite constituting “a blatant misstatement of the law” on the availability of attorney fees in appeals on top of two fake cites in a court order and 12 fake cites in a response brief.
July 03, 2025
California Federal Judge Sanctions Lawyer For AI-Faked Cites In Disability Case

SANTA ANA, Calif. — A California federal judge imposed sanctions including a $500 payment on a plaintiff’s attorney who told the court that he “failed to scrutinize and oversee the preparation of” memoranda “filed with erroneous case citations that were invented by AI”; the breach of contract suit over termination of total disability benefits is headed toward a jury trial after the judge last month granted summary judgment for the insurer on a bad faith claim.
July 03, 2025
Judge Finds For Meta On Fair Use, DMCA In AI Copyright Suit

SAN FRANCISCO — Plaintiffs in a copyright infringement suit over Meta Platforms Inc.’s artificial intelligence could potentially prevail on the theory that the technology threatens to so dilute the market for their works that fair use doesn’t protect the conduct, but the “half-hearted argument” presented by the plaintiffs falls short, a federal judge in California said in granting Meta summary judgment on fair use and Digital Millenium Copyright Act (DMCA) claims.
July 03, 2025
Google Removes Defamation Action Targeting AI Overview

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota federal judge in a recently removed defamation suit claiming that Google LLC’s artificial intelligence product falsely named a solar company as a defendant in a Minnesota attorney general action against several other companies in the solar industry will hold a pretrial conference on July 23.
June 19, 2025
COMMENTARY: Can AI Be Patented? Navigating Patent Subject Matter Eligibility

By John H. Mutchler
June 10, 2025
COMMENTARY: International Arbitration Experts Discuss The Efficiency Of Artificial Intelligence Tools In International Arbitration

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June 20, 2025
3rd Circuit Accepts Appeal In Legal Summary AI Copyright Suit

PHILADELPHIA — The Third Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals granted a petition for interlocutory appeal of a Delaware federal judge’s ruling that neither originality nor fair use protected a company from copyright claims stemming from its use of a competitor’s summaries of legal documents in the training of an artificial intelligence product designed to produce similar results.
June 20, 2025
AI Robocalls Fall Under Telephone Protection Statute, Woman Says

LAS VEGAS — A woman leading a class action and a company she claims initiated robocalls to her cell phone filed dueling briefs on motions to dismiss and to stay the case on issues involving whether she has sufficient injury for standing and whether artificial intelligence falls under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA).
June 19, 2025
NAACP Files Intent To Sue Alleging CAA Violations At Memphis xAI Data Center

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) issued a notice of intent to sue to xAI CEO Elon Musk and other corporate officials alleging that the construction and operation of xAI’s Colossus data center in Memphis, Tenn., violates the Clean Air Act (CAA) and other hazardous air pollutant requirements.
June 19, 2025
Parties: FOIA Efforts Involving Defense Department, NSA AI Use Ongoing

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Parties in a pair of lawsuits seeking information on artificial intelligence use by the Department of Defense and National Security Agency filed joint status reports in separate courts saying Freedom of Information Act requests were actively being negotiated or production was already under way.