Bloomberg Law “Google LLC‘s broad copyright licenses for the content that flows over its many platforms could complicate class certification for authors and artists suing the tech giant for using their works to train its generative AI models. Judge Eumi K. Lee at a hearing Friday in San Jose, Calif., Read more
Bloomberg Law “States are following Texas into a battle over whether proxy firms should have to justify voting recommendations that are out of step with company management. Oklahoma and Kentucky are among a dozen states with bills that would require proxy advisory firms, which advise shareholders how to vote on Read more
Bloomberg Law “Pacira BioSciences Inc. overcame investor allegations tied to statements about the strength of its patent fight for its top-selling painkiller while the biotech company was suing a competitor. The pension fund leading the case didn’t sufficiently allege Pacira and executives disbelieved optimistic statements about the litigation, a New Jersey federal judge Read more
Bloomberg Law ” Google LLC‘s expansion of its “Gemini” AI brand into hardware products infringes a decades-old trademark registration, a speakers and headphones company said in a new complaint. P2B Trading Co. argued using “Gemini” to market Google’s AI-powered speakers will subsume its longstanding brand, leaving consumers linking its products Read more
Bloomberg Law “An international group of plaintiffs sued Meta Platforms, Inc. alleging that the company has made false claims about the privacy and security of its WhatsApp chat service. Meta has made so called “end-to-end” encryption a central part of WhatsApp’s feature set, offering a kind of encryption that means a message Read more
Bloomberg Law “Google LLC’s $30 million settlement to resolve a privacy suit over allegedly collecting data from young YouTube viewers and targeting them with behavioral advertising received final approval from a federal court. Plaintiffs sued Google after the Federal Trade Commission and New York issued an enforcement action over the alleged data collection Read more
Bloomberg Law “Social media platform X Corp. on Friday sued the largest music publishers in the US and their trade associations, with claims that the group leveraged its power to monopolize the market for licenses to copyrighted musical compositions. X Corp., Elon Musk’s social media company, alleges the National Music Publishers’ Association Read more
Bloomberg Law “Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. plans to once again reject a takeover bid from Paramount Skydance Corp. after the rival media company amended the terms of its offer, according to people familiar with the company’s thinking.The Warner Bros. board hasn’t made a final determination, but will meet next week, said the people, Read more
Bloomberg Law “Tesla persuaded a federal court to dismiss a California resident’s proposed class suit that alleged the automaker’s use of online trackers from Google and X violated the state’s Invasion of Privacy law. The US District Court for the Central District of California lacks subject matter jurisdiction over the dispute, as Read more
Bloomberg Law “A dog-fashion magazine titled “Dogue” infringed media behemoth Condé Nast’s trademarks for its famed monthly fashion magazine, “Vogue,” the company told a federal court. Tasty Work LLC publishes Dogue, a “periodical focusing on dogs, dog fashion and celebrity dog owners,” Advance Magazine Publishers Inc., which does business as Read more