We now have an AI copyright lawsuit that is a class action

Today in the Bartz v. Anthropic case, the judge “certified a class,” so now that lawsuit is officially a class action. Anyone can bring a lawsuit and ask that it become a class action, and that request has indeed been made in several of the AI copyright lawsuits. However, until one or more classes are certified, the case is not truly a class action.

This, by the way, is the same case where the judge fully sided with the AI companies on there being fair use, so the range of those “class claims” may be somewhat limited.

I realize this is a technical, incremental step, but it does mark a threshold. Plus, I wanted “scoop” credit for announcing it here.

The Apprehensive_Sky Legal News Network^SM strikes again!