@AdamEisgrau
@adameisgrau.bsky.social
#FairUse fighter for @ChamberofProgress’ Generate & Create campaign. JD, Hill staffer, long-time tech wonk. Amateur photographer, jazz lover, art junkie, avid house plant killer.
BREAKING: 3 prolific YouTube video creators have just filed a class action v @Nvidia.com solely for violating the DMCA (not ©) by, they say, circumventing "effective" YouTube tech measures to train its Cosmos gen AI model on millions of unauthorized downloads. Happy T'gvg?
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November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM
BREAKING: 3 prolific YouTube video creators have just filed a class action v @Nvidia.com solely for violating the DMCA (not ©) by, they say, circumventing "effective" YouTube tech measures to train its Cosmos gen AI model on millions of unauthorized downloads. Happy T'gvg?
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.@Entrepreneur Media's suit v @Meta is now officially related to Kadrey v @Meta and, going forward, thus will also be heard and decided by NDCA Judge Vince Chhabria:
November 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
.@Entrepreneur Media's suit v @Meta is now officially related to Kadrey v @Meta and, going forward, thus will also be heard and decided by NDCA Judge Vince Chhabria:
CASE DISMISSED: It's official; as reported UMG and @udiomusic are now business partners, not litigants (at least v each other)....
November 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
CASE DISMISSED: It's official; as reported UMG and @udiomusic are now business partners, not litigants (at least v each other)....
BREAKING: SCOTUS says Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter will remain in her post until it decides the limits of the President's hiring/firing authorities later in 2026. Details from @BLaw:
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 PM
BREAKING: SCOTUS says Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter will remain in her post until it decides the limits of the President's hiring/firing authorities later in 2026. Details from @BLaw:
@Meta.com's submitted its Reply in support of its Motion to Dismiss the AI training/© infringement Complaint of adult video maker Strike 3:🧵
November 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM
@Meta.com's submitted its Reply in support of its Motion to Dismiss the AI training/© infringement Complaint of adult video maker Strike 3:🧵
@ZiffDavis.com is among the dozen in the MDL now before SDNY Judge Stein. ZD wants to amend its Complaint to claim @OpenAI.com breached the DMCA by "circumventing" its robot.txt instructions. @OpenAI.com opposes arguing that only "access" – not "copy" – controls (robots.txt) are covered:
November 21, 2025 at 9:18 PM
@ZiffDavis.com is among the dozen in the MDL now before SDNY Judge Stein. ZD wants to amend its Complaint to claim @OpenAI.com breached the DMCA by "circumventing" its robot.txt instructions. @OpenAI.com opposes arguing that only "access" – not "copy" – controls (robots.txt) are covered:
Yesterday, @Google.com opposed plaintiffs' Motion for Class Certification in In re Google... for failure to show that common questions "predominate" AND for illicitly changing class definitions. They also moved that Judge Lee to sanction plaintiffs for that bad faith switcheroo:🧵
November 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Yesterday, @Google.com opposed plaintiffs' Motion for Class Certification in In re Google... for failure to show that common questions "predominate" AND for illicitly changing class definitions. They also moved that Judge Lee to sanction plaintiffs for that bad faith switcheroo:🧵
On Wednesday of this week, per @edleeprof below, @Meta.com disclosed it had located yet another engineer who torrented *the entirety* of a "pirate" dataset. In <24 hrs Kadrey, counsel has just petitioned for lots of additional discovery:
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November 21, 2025 at 5:05 PM
On Wednesday of this week, per @edleeprof below, @Meta.com disclosed it had located yet another engineer who torrented *the entirety* of a "pirate" dataset. In <24 hrs Kadrey, counsel has just petitioned for lots of additional discovery:
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@ThomsonReuters.com v Ross, a *non*-gen AI fair use/© case, took another step this week toward a 3d Circuit ruling with the filing of plaintiff appellees' brief again accusing Ross of "theft" of WestLaw headnotes:🧵
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
@ThomsonReuters.com v Ross, a *non*-gen AI fair use/© case, took another step this week toward a 3d Circuit ruling with the filing of plaintiff appellees' brief again accusing Ross of "theft" of WestLaw headnotes:🧵
Salesforce.com and the plaintiff authors who recently separately sued it have formally agreed that there cases should be considered "related" for adjudication. "So ordered," now says NDCA Judge Charles Breyer:
November 18, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Salesforce.com and the plaintiff authors who recently separately sued it have formally agreed that there cases should be considered "related" for adjudication. "So ordered," now says NDCA Judge Charles Breyer:
@Disney.com v @Midjourney.com isn't exactly heating up (having just been filed in June) but CDCA Judge John Kronstadt has just mapped out much of the parties' pre-trial deadlines for the next 12 months; no trial date forecast yet:
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
@Disney.com v @Midjourney.com isn't exactly heating up (having just been filed in June) but CDCA Judge John Kronstadt has just mapped out much of the parties' pre-trial deadlines for the next 12 months; no trial date forecast yet:
BREAKING: The future is now . . . as in actually right now....🧵
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
BREAKING: The future is now . . . as in actually right now....🧵
In re OpenAI © Infringement Litigation's a complex set of nested cases. One of them is @ZiffDavis.com's claim of DMCA breach by @OpenAI.com for "circumventing" robots.tx "do not scrape" protocols it employed. Post-argument, @ZiffDavis.com has briefed an ask for a 2d Amended Complaint:🧵
November 18, 2025 at 4:03 PM
In re OpenAI © Infringement Litigation's a complex set of nested cases. One of them is @ZiffDavis.com's claim of DMCA breach by @OpenAI.com for "circumventing" robots.tx "do not scrape" protocols it employed. Post-argument, @ZiffDavis.com has briefed an ask for a 2d Amended Complaint:🧵
@OpenAI.com's answered book authors' amended SDNY class action Complaint against it and @Microsoft.com recently narrowed to limit the number of ChatGPT models at issue. Per usual, public facts are admitted and virtually all else is denied, but it also raises 21 affirmative defenses:
November 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
@OpenAI.com's answered book authors' amended SDNY class action Complaint against it and @Microsoft.com recently narrowed to limit the number of ChatGPT models at issue. Per usual, public facts are admitted and virtually all else is denied, but it also raises 21 affirmative defenses:
@OpenAI.com's fight to protect the privacy of 20M users' chat logs continues in the SDNY. They've just accused @NYTimes.com and other "News Plaintiffs" of misrepresentation and misleading SDNY Judge Wang:
November 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
@OpenAI.com's fight to protect the privacy of 20M users' chat logs continues in the SDNY. They've just accused @NYTimes.com and other "News Plaintiffs" of misrepresentation and misleading SDNY Judge Wang:
Three NDCA gen AI © cases recently brought v @Apple.com have, as expected, now officially been consolidated by stipulation of the parties. Per the Judge's Order, going forward the case will be captioned Hendrix v Apple.
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Three NDCA gen AI © cases recently brought v @Apple.com have, as expected, now officially been consolidated by stipulation of the parties. Per the Judge's Order, going forward the case will be captioned Hendrix v Apple.
BREAKING: @AdvanceLocal.com Media has defeated on all ©-related counts @Cohere.com's Motion to Dismiss its Complaint for both direct and secondary infringement, as well as "inducement."
November 14, 2025 at 1:43 AM
BREAKING: @AdvanceLocal.com Media has defeated on all ©-related counts @Cohere.com's Motion to Dismiss its Complaint for both direct and secondary infringement, as well as "inducement."
@Meta.com won on fair use in Kadrey but it's still potentially liable for illegally distributing their works via "torrenting," the large scale of wh/plaintiffs say has become clearer over time. Judge Chhabria's just granted more discovery on that, per plaintiffs' 10/29 Motion:🧵
November 13, 2025 at 8:09 PM
@Meta.com won on fair use in Kadrey but it's still potentially liable for illegally distributing their works via "torrenting," the large scale of wh/plaintiffs say has become clearer over time. Judge Chhabria's just granted more discovery on that, per plaintiffs' 10/29 Motion:🧵
Can't say it straighter than @AnneliseLevy in @BLaw.com: ClaimsHero clearly messed w/the wrong judge in defending its scheme to "lure" Bartz settlement-eligible authors into opting out of the plaintiff class. Calling it "a fraud of immense proportions," Judge Alsup ordered a halt:
November 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Can't say it straighter than @AnneliseLevy in @BLaw.com: ClaimsHero clearly messed w/the wrong judge in defending its scheme to "lure" Bartz settlement-eligible authors into opting out of the plaintiff class. Calling it "a fraud of immense proportions," Judge Alsup ordered a halt:
BREAKING: @OpenAI.com's Battle of the User Logs is back in today's news. Judge Wang has set 11/19 for their Reply to @NYTimes.com 11/12 Opposition to their recon motion. BUT, she won't stay her 11/7 Order. @NYTimes.com says 20M logs are due tomorrow. Details below:🧵
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November 13, 2025 at 5:55 PM
BREAKING: @OpenAI.com's Battle of the User Logs is back in today's news. Judge Wang has set 11/19 for their Reply to @NYTimes.com 11/12 Opposition to their recon motion. BUT, she won't stay her 11/7 Order. @NYTimes.com says 20M logs are due tomorrow. Details below:🧵
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A German court's ruling against OpenAI.com inlcudes truly ugly (and clearly AI development-hostile) potential damages math. If just 1000 unlawful outputs of each of the 9 songs at issue were compensible, liability could top $2.6 *billion* (US), reports @MLexclusive.com:
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
A German court's ruling against OpenAI.com inlcudes truly ugly (and clearly AI development-hostile) potential damages math. If just 1000 unlawful outputs of each of the 9 songs at issue were compensible, liability could top $2.6 *billion* (US), reports @MLexclusive.com:
@OpenAI.com's Chief Info Sec Officer published this letter today in response to the @NYTImes' efforts in court to access 20 million ChatGPT user logs. He writes "Your private conversations are yours—and they should not become collateral in a dispute over online content access."
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November 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
@OpenAI.com's Chief Info Sec Officer published this letter today in response to the @NYTImes' efforts in court to access 20 million ChatGPT user logs. He writes "Your private conversations are yours—and they should not become collateral in a dispute over online content access."
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@Suno.com recently sought dismissal of country musician Anthony Justice's © infringement suit generally for failing to state a case and particularly for showing that any of his actual works were infringed. Justice has just filed his Opposition to that Motion:
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
@Suno.com recently sought dismissal of country musician Anthony Justice's © infringement suit generally for failing to state a case and particularly for showing that any of his actual works were infringed. Justice has just filed his Opposition to that Motion:
@OpenAI.com has just asked Judge Wang to vacate her 11/7 Order that it produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT output logs arguing "neither common sense nor" the FRCP "justify the forced production of a massive trove of irrelevant personal user conversations": 🧵👀
November 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
@OpenAI.com has just asked Judge Wang to vacate her 11/7 Order that it produce 20M anonymized ChatGPT output logs arguing "neither common sense nor" the FRCP "justify the forced production of a massive trove of irrelevant personal user conversations": 🧵👀
BREAKING: A Munich Regional Court has just ruled that the text & data mining exception in Art 4 of the EU Copyright Directive doesn't apply to @OpenAI.com's model training, leaving it liable for model memorization and infringing outputs:🧵
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November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
BREAKING: A Munich Regional Court has just ruled that the text & data mining exception in Art 4 of the EU Copyright Directive doesn't apply to @OpenAI.com's model training, leaving it liable for model memorization and infringing outputs:🧵
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