Court filings and decisions arising from these actions.
The D.C. Circuit upheld the Department of War’s exclusion of Anthropic and its Claude AI products from the Department’s supply chain under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018.
The Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of the plaintiffs’ Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim, holding that AI-generated code output alleged as similar to or derived from existing code does not, without more, show that copyright management information was removed or altered from a copy of an existing protected work.
The D.C. Circuit reversed summary judgment for the Secretary of Defense and remanded Hesai’s challenge to its Section 1260H designation, holding that due process required notice of the unclassified materials supporting the designation and a meaningful opportunity to respond before finalization.
The D.C. Circuit affirmed in part, reversed in part, and remanded DJI’s challenge to its designation as a Chinese military company under Section 1260H, holding that most of DJI’s claims failed but that the district court could not uphold the Secretary of Defense’s separate finding that DJI contributes to China’s defense industrial base without examining the agency’s stated, classified rationale.
The FCC adopts new equipment-authorization and marketing restrictions to address national-security risks in the communications supply chain, while seeking comment on additional Covered List and equipment-authorization measures.
The Northern District of California grants final approval to the class-action settlement resolving copyright claims against Anthropic arising from its downloading of books from LibGen and PiLiMi, enters judgment, and dismisses the action with prejudice.
The FCC strengthens its Covered List equipment-authorization regime by barring authorization of covered modular transmitters and devices containing them, creating a prospective process to stop importation and marketing of previously authorized covered equipment, and seeking further comment on related controls.
The Northern District of California preliminarily approved a class-action settlement between copyright owners and Anthropic PBC, along with the distribution and notice plans, while preserving objections and setting a later fairness hearing.
The Northern District of California granted Meta Platforms, Inc.’s cross-motion for partial summary judgment on its fair-use defense to the thirteen authors’ direct copyright-infringement claim based on using their books to train the Llama large language models, while denying the authors’ motion for partial summary judgment.
The court held that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted books to train large language models was fair use, and that converting lawfully purchased print books into private searchable digital library copies was also fair use, but denied summary judgment as to millions of pirated books retained in a general-purpose library.
The court grants Thomson Reuters partial summary judgment on direct copyright infringement and fair use, holding that Ross Intelligence copied protectable Westlaw headnotes to train a competing legal-research AI tool and cannot establish fair use on the record presented.
The Supreme Court affirmed the D.C. Circuit and held that the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, as applied to TikTok and the petitioners, does not violate the First Amendment.
The Ninth Circuit denied China Unicom (Americas) Operations Limited’s petition for review and upheld the FCC’s revocation of its domestic and international telecommunications authorizations under § 214 of the Communications Act.
The D.C. Circuit upheld the FCC’s prohibition on authorizing Hikvision and Dahua equipment for covered national-security uses, but vacated the FCC’s overbroad definition of “critical infrastructure” and remanded for further explanation.
The D.C. Circuit denied Pacific Networks Corp. and ComNet (USA) LLC’s petition for review, upholding the FCC’s revocation of their Section 214 authorizations based on national-security risks and lack of candor and trustworthiness.
The D.C. Circuit denied China Telecom (Americas) Corporation’s petition for review and upheld the FCC’s revocation of the company’s domestic and international section 214 authority.
The FCC adopts rules barring authorization, marketing, and importation of communications equipment identified on the FCC Covered List, while seeking further comment on additional equipment-authorization and competitive-bidding safeguards.
The FCC revokes China Telecom (Americas) Corporation’s domestic section 214 authority and revokes and terminates its international section 214 authorizations because continued authority no longer serves the public interest and presents substantial national-security and law-enforcement risks.
The Fifth Circuit denied Huawei’s petition for review, holding that the FCC acted within its statutory authority and did not violate the Administrative Procedure Act or the Constitution by barring universal-service funds from being used for equipment or services supplied by designated national-security risks.
The Executive Branch urges the FCC to revoke and terminate China Telecom (Americas) Corporation’s international Section 214 authorizations because the record establishes national-security and law-enforcement risks and the company has not adequately addressed authorization conditions.
Every record filed that week, with references. Sent from newsletter.natsecnoir.com.