Intellectual Property – Lieff Cabraser

Class Plaintiffs File Proposed Plan for Notice and Distribution Phase of Historic $1.5 Billion Settlement in Anthropic AI Litigation

Extensive Filing Describes Overwhelming Support Across Author/Publisher Community and Explains Plaintiffs’ Proposal on Notice, Claims, and Distribution of Anthropic Payment; Action Meets Schedule Set by Court’s September 8 Order and Moves Case Forward Towards September 25, 2025, Preliminary Approval Hearing September 22, 2025 (San Francisco) — The Anthropic class plaintiffs in Bartz et al. v. Anthropic

LieffCabraser2025-09-23T04:38:04+00:00September 22nd, 2025|Intellectual Property|

Authors Secure $1.5 Billion Settlement in Landmark AI Piracy Case

Landmark Agreement with Anthropic Submitted for Court Approval Agreement Would Result in First Major Payout to Creators Challenging AI Exploitation of their Work, Believed Largest Recovery Ever in a US Copyright Case On September 5, 2025, Plaintiffs in the Bartz et al. v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417-WHA (N.D. Cal.), literary piracy lawsuit today announced the

LieffCabraser2025-09-06T00:54:18+00:00September 6th, 2025|Intellectual Property, News|

Lieff Cabraser Appointed Co-Lead Class Counsel in Historic Copyright Class Action Against Anthropic for Mass Piracy

Lawsuit alleges AI company Anthropic took millions of copyright-protected books for commercial benefit, harming books authors, copyright holders, and the publishing industry as a whole A federal judge has appointed Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP and Susman Godfrey LLP to serve as Co-Lead Class Counsel in the class action lawsuit against AI company Anthropic

LieffCabraser2025-07-18T01:07:57+00:00July 17th, 2025|Intellectual Property|

Lieff Cabraser & Co-Counsel File Federal Class Action Copyright Infringement Suit Against Anthropic on Behalf of Authors For Taking and Exploiting Pirated Books

Lawsuit alleges Anthropic’s Claude AI language models compromise authors’ ability to earn a living via improper and unauthorized ingestion and use of their books On August 19, 2024, Lieff Cabraser, Susman Godfrey, LLP and Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP filed a federal class action copyright infringement lawsuit in the Northern

LieffCabraser2025-09-23T04:57:54+00:00August 20th, 2024|Intellectual Property|

Lieff Cabraser & Co-Counsel File Federal Class Action Copyright Infringement Suit Against OpenAI on Behalf of Authors Guild and Professional Authors

The Lawsuit, Filed in Federal District Court in New York, Alleges Flagrant and Extensive Theft of Creative Works of Fiction by OpenAI Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP and Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP announce the filing of a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

LieffCabraser2023-09-20T14:46:05+00:00September 20th, 2023|Firm News, Intellectual Property|

Media Groups Challenge 9th Circuit Ruling in Nike Copyright Infringement Suit

As reported by Law360, the American Society of Media Photographers and the National Press Photographers Association have joined forces to file a 25-page amicus brief in support of photographer Jacobus Rentmeester, who Lieff Cabraser represents in a suit claiming that Nike Inc. violated copyright law by improperly using his famous 1984 image of Michael Jordan

LieffCabraser2019-01-07T11:24:05+00:00January 7th, 2019|Intellectual Property|