Hacker News with Generative AI: Legal Battles

Meta Trained Its AI on a Notorious Piracy Database (wired.com)
Meta just lost a major fight in its ongoing legal battle with a group of authors suing the company for copyright infringement over how it trained its artificial intelligence models.
YouTuber won DMCA fight with fake Nintendo lawyer by detecting spoofed email (arstechnica.com)
A brave YouTuber has managed to defeat a fake Nintendo lawyer improperly targeting his channel with copyright takedowns that could have seen his entire channel removed if YouTube issued one more strike.
Judge hands WP Engine a win in legal fight with Automattic (theregister.com)
Updated WordPress hosting firm Automattic and its CEO Matthew Mullenweg have been ordered to stop interfering with the business of rival WP Engine.
WordPress parent company must stop blocking WP Engine, judge rules (theverge.com)
WP Engine just won a preliminary injunction against WordPress.com parent company Automattic.
Once Linux's Biggest Enemy: Darl McBride Dies and Nobody Notices (fossforce.com)
The man who, as president and CEO of SCO, attempted to sue Linux out of existence died a month and a half ago with little notice by the Linux and open source communities.
'We took on Google and they were forced to pay out £2B' (bbc.co.uk)
"Google essentially disappeared us from the internet."
Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up (theregister.com)
Cloudflare on Thursday celebrated a victory over Sable Networks, which the former described as a "patent troll."
X lost a court battle after trying to claim 'Twitter ceased to exist' (engadget.com)
X has lost a legal fight in Australia in which the company tried to avoid a $400,000 fine by claiming that Twitter no longer exists.
Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public (cloudflare.com)
Sable, the patent troll that sued Cloudflare back in March 2021 asserting around 100 claims across four patents, in the end wound up paying Cloudflare.
The $621M Legal Battle by Record Labels Against Internet Archive (rollingstone.com)
In the old chapel of a former Christian Science church in San Francisco, late-afternoon sun pours orange through the windows and several giant servers are hard at work.
Apple requests Epic anti-steering injunction be tossed given new precedent (appleinsider.com)
Another major twist has occurred in the Epic vs Apple case that may end with everything getting thrown out thanks to new precedents and a lack of evidence from Epic.
The Internet Archive's Fight to Save Itself (wired.com)
The web’s collective memory is stored in the servers of the Internet Archive. Legal battles threaten to wipe it all away.
The Internet Archive Loses Its Appeal of a Major Copyright Case (wired.com)
NSO vs. Citizen Lab: U.S. Court Battles over Pegasus Spyware Investigations (theintercept.com)