Judge Wang Won’t Recuse From OpenAI Case Despite Owning Microsoft Stock
Magistrate Judge Ona T. Wang disclosed she held Microsoft stock while overseeing publishers' and authors' copyright suits against OpenAI and…
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Meta Sued Over NameTag Facial-ID and AI Models Trained on FB Photos
A federal class action filed September 4, 2026 in Chicago alleges Meta extracted biometric data from Facebook and Instagram photos…
Flock Safety’s Dropdown Fix Hides the Paper Trail Behind ‘LMAO’ Plate Searches
EFF's September 14, 2026 analysis of Flock Safety ALPR audit logs found officers nationwide justified license-plate searches with entries like…
HarperCollins, Publishers Contest Authors’ Cuts in Anthropic’s $1.5B Deal
Authors in Anthropic's $1.5 billion book-piracy settlement say publishers and literary agents are filing claims on payments they don't own,…
Seattle Times, Newsday Sue OpenAI and Microsoft Over AI Scraping
The Seattle Times Co. and Newsday filed a joint copyright suit against OpenAI and Microsoft in the Southern District of…
Seattle Times, Newsday Sue OpenAI, Microsoft, Seek Destruction of AI Models
The Seattle Times and Newsday filed suit against OpenAI and Microsoft on September 4, 2026 in the Southern District of…
Seattle Times, Newsday Sue OpenAI, Microsoft, Citing $300M Rival Licensing Deals
The Seattle Times and Newsday sued OpenAI and Microsoft on September 4, 2026 in the Southern District of New York,…
DOJ Backs OpenAI in NYT Copyright Suit, Calls AI Training Fair Use
The Justice Department filed a brief on September 2, 2026 backing OpenAI's fair-use defense in The New York Times' December…
DOJ Backs OpenAI’s Fair-Use Defense Against NYT, Rattling Licensing Markets
The Trump administration filed a Sept. 1, 2026 brief in Manhattan federal court arguing AI training on copyrighted text is…
India Denies AI Sole Authorship, Echoing US Thaler v. Perlmutter Line
The Indian Express reports the Copyright Office rejected authorship for a purely AI-generated work, mirroring the US Supreme Court's March…