Allegation: Fox asks the court to shield its AI training license with Meta from authors and publishers, and to make them destroy unredacted copies Meta produced by mistake
https://payauthors.com/news/2026-10-07-fox-meta-license-protective-order
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Company filing: ROSS Intelligence tells the Third Circuit it will petition for rehearing en banc of the ruling that its AI training was not fair use, and asks for until Nov. 3
https://payauthors.com/news/2026-10-07-ross-en-banc-extension
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Company filing: Meta's verified answers name the executives who approved buying and scanning physical books under its "Project Vellum"
https://payauthors.com/news/2026-10-06-meta-project-vellum-approvers
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Company filing: Meta's verified answers name who approved using LibGen and Anna's Archive data for Llama, and say it knows of no one who decided to upload
https://payauthors.com/news/2026-10-06-meta-who-approved-libgen
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Allegation: Authors say Meta has produced no server command logs from its torrenting and ask the court to make it say whether any were deleted; Meta says it is still searching
https://payauthors.com/news/2026-10-06-kadrey-command-history
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Allegation: Publishers suing Meta oppose textbook authors' bid for their own interim class counsel, calling it premature and unnecessary
https://payauthors.com/news/2026-10-06-elsevier-opposes-sullivan-counsel
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Allegation: Authors ask for more time to question Meta's corporate witness on torrenting, saying he could not answer basic questions
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Court order: Judge strikes the authors' supplemental expert report and bars them from relying on a market-dilution study in the OpenAI case
https://payauthors.com/news/2026-10-06-openai-dilution-paper-struck
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Company filing: NVIDIA says its lawyers disclosed a further download made after the July 2024 discovery cutoff, and argues it does not justify reopening discovery
https://payauthors.com/news/2026-10-05-nvidia-post-cutoff-download
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Court order: Hobbs v. Meta is transferred out of New York after the judge signs the parties' transfer stipulation
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Court order: Magistrate judge sets a schedule in an opt-out author's solo suit against Anthropic: discovery through 2027, dispositive motions due Nov. 26, 2027
https://payauthors.com/news/2026-10-05-gilbert-scheduling-order
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Court order (Oct. 2, 2026): Magistrate judge: authors and publishers suing Meta need not spell out, book by book, their market harm, which right was infringed, or the facts of Meta's torrent uploading
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Allegation (Sep. 29, 2026): Plaintiffs say Meta's internal data catalog shows it kept torrenting from Anna's Archive after mid-2024
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Court ruling (Sep. 29, 2026): Third Circuit holds ROSS's AI training on Westlaw headnotes was not fair use, and sets generative AI apart
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Company filing (Sep. 29, 2026): Meta's answer to textbook authors admits torrenting LibGen and Anna's Archive data, and that some data was uploaded
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Company filing (Sep. 29, 2026): Meta says any uploading while it torrented book datasets was de minimis, and admits it weighed licensing from publishers before turning to what it calls publicly available data
https://payauthors.com/news/2026-09-29-meta-sullivan-deminimis