Case 3:23-cv-03223-AMO Document 433 Filed 04/02/25 Page 1 of 6 1 LATHAM & WATKINS LLP MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP Andrew M. Gass (SBN 259694) Joseph C. Gratz (SBN 240676) 2 andrew.gass@lw.com jgratz@mofo.com Joseph R. Wetzel (SBN 238008) Tiffany Cheung (SBN 211497) 3 joe.wetzel@lw.com tcheung@mofo.com 505 Montgomery Street, Suite 2000 Joyce C. Li (SBN 323820) 4 San Francisco, CA 94111 joyceli@mofo.com Telephone: 415.391.0600 Melody E. Wong (SBN 341494) 5 melodywong@mofo.com Sarang V. Damle (pro hac vice) 425 Market Street 6 sy.damle@lw.com San Francisco, CA 94105 Elana Nightingale Dawson (pro hac vice) Telephone: 415.268.7000 7 elana.nightingaledawson@lw.com Michael A. David (pro hac vice) Rose S. Lee (SBN 294658) 8 michael.david@lw.com roselee@mofo.com 555 Eleventh Street, NW, Suite 1000 Alexandra M. Ward (SBN 318042) 9 Washington, D.C. 20004 alexandraward@mofo.com Telephone: 202.637.2200 707 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 6000 10 Los Angeles, CA 90017 Allison L. Stillman (pro hac vice) Telephone: 213.892.5200 11 alli.stillman@lw.com Rachel R. Blitzer (pro hac vice) Attorneys for Defendants OpenAI, Inc., 12 rachel.blitzer@lw.com OpenAI, L.P., OpenAI OpCo, L.L.C., Herman H. Yue (pro hac vice) OpenAI GP, L.L.C., OpenAI Startup 13 herman.yue@lw.com Fund GP I, L.L.C., OpenAI Startup Fund 1271 Avenue of the Americas I, L.P., and OpenAI Startup Fund 14 New York, NY 10020 Management, LLC Telephone: 212.906.1200 15 Allison S. Blanco (SBN 287554) 16 allison.blanco@lw.com 650 Town Center Drive 20th Floor 17 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Telephone: 714.540.1235 18 [CAPTION CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE] 19 20 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 21 NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION 22 23 IN RE OPENAI CHATGPT LITIGATION Master File No. 3:23-cv-03223-AMO 24 This Document Relates To: DEFENDANTS’ STATEMENT OF RECENT DECISION 25 Case No. 3:23-cv-03223-AMO Hon. Araceli Martínez-Olguín 26 Case No. 3:23-cv-03416-AMO Case No. 3:23-cv-04625-AMO 27 28 STATEMENT OF RECENT DECISION ATTORNEYS AT LAW SAN FRANCISCO CASE NO. 3:23-cv-03223-AMO Case 3:23-cv-03223-AMO Document 433 Filed 04/02/25 Page 2 of 6 1 Max I. Levy (SBN 346289) mlevy@mofo.com 2 755 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 3 Telephone: 650.813.5600 4 John R. Lanham (SBN 289382) jlanham@mofo.com 5 Sarah J. Vandervalk (SBN 332651) svandervalk@mofo.com 6 12531 High Bluff Drive, Suite 100 San Diego, CA 92130 7 Telephone: 858.720.5100 8 Eric K. Nikolaides (pro hac vice) enikolaides@mofo.com 9 Zachary S. Newman (pro hac vice) znewman@mofo.com 10 250 West 55th Street New York, NY 10019 11 Telephone: 212.468.8000 12 Carolyn M. Homer (SBN 286441) cmhomer@mofo.com 13 2100 L Street, NW, Suite 900 Washington, D.C. 20037 14 Telephone: 202.650.4597 15 KEKER, VAN NEST & PETERS LLP 16 Robert A. Van Nest (SBN 84065) rvannest@keker.com 17 R. James Slaughter (SBN 192813) rslaughter@keker.com 18 Paven Malhotra (SBN 258429) pmalhotra@keker.com 19 Michelle S. Ybarra (SBN 260697) mybarra@keker.com 20 Nicholas S. Goldberg (SBN 273614) ngoldberg@keker.com 21 Thomas E. Gorman (SBN 279409) tgorman@keker.com 22 Katie Lynn Joyce (SBN 308263) kjoyce@keker.com 23 Christopher S. Sun (SBN 308945) csun@keker.com 24 Edward A. Bayley (SBN 267532) ebayley@keker.com 25 633 Battery Street San Francisco, CA 94111 26 Telephone: 415.391.5400 Facsimile: 415.397.7188 27 28 STATEMENT OF RECENT DECISION ATTORNEYS AT LAW SAN FRANCISCO CASE NO. 3:23-cv-03223-AMO Case 3:23-cv-03223-AMO Document 433 Filed 04/02/25 Page 3 of 6 1 DEFENDANTS’ STATEMENT OF RECENT DECISION 2 Pursuant to Northern District of California Civil Local Rule 7-3(d)(2), Defendants 3 respectfully submit this Statement of Recent Decision to apprise the Court of a recent order in 4 connection with the briefing on Plaintiffs’ Motion for Leave to File Second Amended Complaint 5 (ECF Nos. 371, 401, 414). 6 In Concord Music Group, Inc. et al. v. Anthropic PBC, No. 5:24-cv-03811 (N.D. Cal.), a 7 case involving copyright infringement and DMCA claims against another generative AI company, 8 the plaintiffs alleged that defendant Anthropic “intentionally removed or altered copyright 9 management information from [plaintiffs’] musical compositions, and/or distributed or imported 10 for distribution copies of [plaintiffs’] musical compositions knowing that copyright management 11 information has been removed or altered,” in violation of 17 U.S.C. § 1202(b). See Complaint, 12 Concord Music Group, No. 5:24-cv-03811, ECF No. 1 ¶ 149 (attached hereto as Exhibit 1). On 13 March 26, 2025, the United States District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed 14 plaintiffs’ Section 1202(b)(1) claims with leave to amend. See Order Granting Motion to Dismiss 15 with Leave to Amend, Concord Music Group, No. 5:24-cv-03811, ECF No. 322 at 9-12 (attached 16 hereto as Exhibit 2). 17 18 Dated: April 2, 2025 Respectfully Submitted, 19 By: /s/ Rose S. Lee 20 MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP 21 Joseph C. Gratz (SBN 240676) jgratz@mofo.com 22 Tiffany Cheung (SBN 211497) tcheung@mofo.com 23 Joyce C. Li (SBN 323820) joyceli@mofo.com 24 Melody E. Wong (SBN 341494) melodywong@mofo.com 25 425 Market Street San Francisco, CA 94105 26 Telephone: 415.268.7000 27 28 STATEMENT OF RECENT DECISION ATTORNEYS AT LAW SAN FRANCISCO 1 CASE NO. 3:23-cv-03223-AMO Case 3:23-cv-03223-AMO Document 433 Filed 04/02/25 Page 4 of 6 1 Rose S. Lee (SBN 294658) roselee@mofo.com 2 Alexandra M. Ward (SBN 318042) alexandraward@mofo.com 3 707 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 6000 Los Angeles, CA 90017 4 Telephone: 213.892.5200 5 Eric Nikolaides (pro hac vice) enikolaides@mofo.com 6 Zachary S. Newman (pro hac vice) znewman@mofo.com 7 250 West 55th Street New York, NY 10019 8 Telephone: 212.468.8000 9 Max I. Levy (SBN 346289) mlevy@mofo.com 10 755 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 11 Telephone: 650.813.5600 12 John R. Lanham (SBN 289382) jlanham@mofo.com 13 Sarah J. Vandervalk (SBN 332651) svandervalk@mofo.com 14 12531 High Bluff Drive, Suite 100 San Diego, CA 92130 15 Telephone: 858.720.5100 16 Carolyn M. Homer (SBN 286441) cmhomer@mofo.com 17 2100 L Street, NW, Suite 900 Washington, DC 20037 18 Telephone: 202.650.4597p 19 By: /s/ Allison S. Blanco ______________ 20 LATHAM & WATKINS LLP 21 Andrew M. Gass (SBN 259694) andrew.gass@lw.com 22 Joseph R. Wetzel (SBN 238008) joe.wetzel@lw.com 23 505 Montgomery Street, Suite 2000 San Francisco, CA 94111 24 Telephone: 415.391.0600 25 26 27 28 STATEMENT OF RECENT DECISION ATTORNEYS AT LAW SAN FRANCISCO 2 CASE NO. 3:23-cv-03223-AMO Case 3:23-cv-03223-AMO Document 433 Filed 04/02/25 Page 5 of 6 1 Sarang V. Damle (pro hac vice) sy.damle@lw.com 2 Elana Nightingale Dawson (pro hac vice) elana.nightingaledawson@lw.com 3 Michael A. David (pro hac vice) michael.david@lw.com 4 555 Eleventh Street, NW, Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. 20004 5 Telephone: 202.637.2200 6 Allison L. Stillman (pro hac vice) alli.stillman@lw.com 7 Rachel R. Blitzer (pro hac vice) rachel.blitzer@lw.com 8 Herman H. Yue (pro hac vice) herman.yue@lw.com 9 1271 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 10 Telephone: 212.906.1200 11 Allison S. Blanco (SBN 287554) allison.blanco@lw.com 12 650 Town Center Drive 20th Floor Costa Mesa, CA 92626 13 Telephone: 714.540.1235 14 By: /s/ Christopher S. Sun ______________ 15 KEKER, VAN NEST & PETERS LLP Robert A. Van Nest (SBN 84065) 16 rvannest@keker.com R. James Slaughter (SBN 192813) 17 rslaughter@keker.com Paven Malhotra (SBN 258429) 18 pmalhotra@keker.com Michelle S. Ybarra (SBN 260697) 19 mybarra@keker.com Nicholas S. Goldberg (SBN 273614) 20 ngoldberg@keker.com Thomas E. Gorman (SBN 279409) 21 tgorman@keker.com Katie Lynn Joyce (SBN 308263) 22 kjoyce@keker.com Christopher S. Sun (SBN 308945) 23 csun@keker.com Edward A. Bayley (SBN 267532) 24 ebayley@keker.com 633 Battery Street 25 San Francisco, CA 94111 Telephone: 415.391.5400 26 Facsimile: 415.397.7188 27 28 Attorneys for OpenAI Defendants STATEMENT OF RECENT DECISION ATTORNEYS AT LAW SAN FRANCISCO 3 CASE NO. 3:23-cv-03223-AMO Case 3:23-cv-03223-AMO Document 433 Filed 04/02/25 Page 6 of 6 1 ATTESTATION CLAUSE 2 I am the ECF User whose identification and password are being used to file the foregoing. 3 Pursuant to Local Rule 5-1(i)(3) regarding signatures, I, Allison S. Blanco, attest that concurrence 4 in the filing of this document has been obtained. 5 6 Dated: April 2, 2025 /s/ Allison S. Blanco Allison S. Blanco 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 STATEMENT OF RECENT DECISION ATTORNEYS AT LAW SAN FRANCISCO CASE NO. 3:23-cv-03223-AMO