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Players On the Move

Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

A look at moves among attorneys, law firms, companies and other players in entertainment law.

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Fresh Filings

Entertainment Law & Finance Staff

Notable recent court filings in entertainment law.

Features

Anthropic’s Settlement With Authors May Be Potential Blueprint for Resolving AI Infringement Claims Image

Anthropic’s Settlement With Authors May Be Potential Blueprint for Resolving AI Infringement Claims

Michael Gennaro

A federal judge in the Northern District of California granted preliminary approval to a $1.5 billion settlement between Anthropic and a class of book authors who alleged that the artificial intelligence company used their copyrighted works to train its chatbot Claude without their consent. The settlement is the largest copyright settlement of all time, covering 482,460 works and paying authors slightly more than $3,000 per work infringed.

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Parameters of Legal Relationship Between Co-Lenders for Film Production

Stan Soocher

An “agreement between lenders” (ABL) to help co-fund a film production is a common vehicle for sharing financial risk. But what happens when a legal dispute arises between a film-production senior lender who has provided a larger loan amount than a junior lender who has loaned less?

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What Will Become of ‘Schedule A’ Complaints In Counterfeit Goods Litigations? Image

What Will Become of ‘Schedule A’ Complaints In Counterfeit Goods Litigations?

Rob Maier

Many companies have been participating in the growing trend of challenging counterfeit products of their goods by filing “Schedule A” lawsuits. These suits are mass actions typically alleging intellectual property infringement and they allow plaintiffs to sue many defendants at once, with the defendants’ names grouped in a “Schedule A” appendix attached to the complaint.

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