Andre Dubus, author of The Garden of Last Days, and Susan Orlean, who wrote The Orchid Thief, sued Nvidia Thursday for copyright infringement in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco, alleging the tech company used their works to train its NeMo Megatron large language models for AI.Read More >>
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Vermont’s net neutrality law seems in good shape legally following two significant, late-April decisions by the FCC and the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, said experts on the statute. ISP groups must decide what to do with their 2018 lawsuit at U.S. District Court of Vermont now that the case can resume following the 2nd Circuit ruling.Read More >>
The American Civil Rights Project supports the 20 industry petitioners arguing that the 8th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court should vacate the FCC’s digital discrimination broadband rule since it runs afoul of the law and isn’t based on clear congressional intent (see 2404230032), according to the nonprofit’s amicus brief. It was filed Wednesday in docket 24-1179.Read More >>
Two plaintiffs filed an unjust enrichment class action Wednesday against InMarket Media over its collection of consumers’ location data (docket 1:24-cv-11170). The filing in U.S. District Court for Massachusetts came the same day the FTC finalized a settlement with the data aggregator (see 2405010071).Read More >>
San Diego County plaintiff Melissa Ryan has experienced an uptick in spam calls since an early January data breach at her mortgage lender, loanDepot, said her negligence class action Thursday (docket 2:24-cv-03630) Thursday U.S. District Court for Central California.Read More >>
Comedy record label 800 Pound Gorilla Media discloses consumers’ Facebook ID (FID) and the titles of videos they have viewed, in violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), alleged a class action Thursday (docket 3:24-cv-00787) Thursday in U.S. District Court for Southern California in San Diego.Read More >>