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  • November 06, 2025

    Perplexity: Engineered Prompts Can’t Form Basis Of AI Copyright Suit

    NEW YORK — Perplexity AI Inc. told a federal judge in New York in a motion to dismiss that outputs resulting from prompts engineered by plaintiff Encyclopedia Britannica Inc. cannot form the basis of a copyright claim and that the plaintiff has not sufficiently identified the protected works in question.

  • November 06, 2025

    Algorithmic Rental Price Plaintiffs Push Back On States’ Settlement Complaints

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. — States lack standing to intervene in a $141 million settlement in an artificial intelligence-based rent pricing suit settlement similar to their own parens patriae actions, and any challenge to the proposed agreement is premature and should be addressed after a decision on preliminary approval, plaintiffs told a federal judge in Tennessee.

  • November 06, 2025

    Amazon Says PacifiCorp. Is Failing To Power AI Data Centers

    PORTLAND, Ore. — Energy supplier PacifiCorp. committed to providing electricity to four data centers powering artificial intelligence but instead provided only partial power to one and is attempting to negotiate extracontractual concessions from Amazon Data Services Inc. (ADS), according to a complaint ADS filed with the Oregon Public Utility Commission.

  • November 05, 2025

    Precedential PTO Decision Sets Machine Learning Abstractness Standards

    WASHINGTON, D.C. — A U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Appeals Review Panel (ARP) vacated a U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) panel’s new ground of rejection for claims of an artificial intelligence inventor’s patent application regarding a machine learning patent as directed at an abstract idea in a Nov. 4 precedential decision; the APR left in place, however, the PTAB panel’s affirmation of a PTO examiner’s rejection of the application’s claims as obvious.

  • November 05, 2025

    Due Process Claim Dismissed In Expelled Student’s AI Cheating Case

    MINNEAPOLIS — There is no evidence that the University of Minnesota’s decision to expel a student it found violated the school’s code of conduct by using artificial intelligence on a test lacked a rational basis or was motivated by improper purpose, a federal judge in Minnesota said in dismissing with prejudice a substantive due process claim.

  • November 05, 2025

    California Court Affirms Workplace Violence Order, Wants Cite Errors Explained

    LOS ANGELES — The legal system relies on the integrity of counsel and courts, a California appellate court said in issuing an order to show cause why an attorney should not be sanctioned for filing a brief with what appears to be errors generated by artificial intelligence.  In the unpublished ruling itself, the court affirmed a workplace violence restraining order issued after a firefighter complained about workplace conditions and referenced a recent shooting involving a colleague.

  • 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.