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New Copyright Claims Against AI Providers as Anthropic Settles for $1.5 Billion

Recent legal filings highlight ongoing conflicts between generative AI companies and content creators over copyrighted material.

A proposed class action settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC addresses Anthropic’s alleged large-scale copyright infringement for torrenting and commercially exploiting books obtained from pirated datasets, specifically Library Genesis (LibGen) and Pirate Library Mirror (PiLiMi), to train Anthropic’s Large Language Models (LLMs). The settlement, ...

Ninth Circuit Affirms Decision Against Google Play Practices

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a jury verdict and a permanent injunction against Google in Epic Games, Inc.’s antitrust lawsuit. Epic initiated the suit after Google removed its Fortnite game from the Google Play Store for non-compliance with its terms, which mandated Google’s payment-processing system and a 30% commission.

The jury concluded that Google violated both federal and ...

Europe’s Top Court Clarifies the Boundaries of Non-Personal Data

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), in its judgment of an appeal brought by the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), considered whether public comments and unique alphanumeric codes constituted personal data.

The issue was reviewed under the regulation governing the processing of personal data by EU institutions, which is the equivalent of the GDPR that applies to ...

Trump Administration Plans to Use AI for Deregulation

The U.S. Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has developed a new artificial intelligence tool, the “DOGE AI Deregulation Decision Tool,” with an ambitious goal: to eliminate half of Washington’s federal regulatory mandates. An internal proposal suggests this could happen by the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The AI tool is designed to analyze roughly 200,000 federal regulations to ...

Trump Administration “March-In” to Harvard’s Patents

The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive review of Harvard University’s federally funded research programs and is threatening to diminish the school’s lucrative portfolio of patents. President Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, accused Harvard of breaching its legal and contractual requirements related to federally funded research and patents.

The Commerce Secretary emphasized Harvard’s “critical responsibility” to ensure that intellectual property ...

Israeli Supreme Court Invalidates Warrantless Police Searches in Digital Devices

A three-judge panel of the Israeli Supreme Court, sitting as High Court of Justice, unanimously held that the Israeli police may not search digital devices (particularly mobile phones) of suspects without a judicial warrant, based solely on the suspect's consent. Under the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, police searches of computer materials may only be conducted "pursuant to a judge's order." However, ...

Trump Administration “March-In” to Harvard’s Patents

The Trump administration has launched a comprehensive review of Harvard University’s federally funded research programs and is threatening to diminish the school’s lucrative portfolio of patents. President Trump’s Commerce Secretary, Howard Lutnick, accused Harvard of breaching its legal and contractual requirements related to federally funded research and patents.

The Commerce Secretary emphasized Harvard’s “critical responsibility” to ensure that intellectual property ...

Illinois Enacts AI Restrictions in Mental Healthcare

Illinois has recently enacted the Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act, which is now in effect. The law prescribes limits on the role that Artificial Intelligence (AI) may take in mental healthcare, as a measure to protect patients. This is the first law in the United States to regulate AI in clinical settings specifically.

The Act was passed against ...

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