lawsuits

• Honey’s business model is “an adpocalypse all day every day” for creators. LegalEagle just filed a class action suit to get them paid.
• Chatbot company Character.AI faces lawsuit over 14-year-old’s death

  Character.AI was founded in 2021 by Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, who left Google after it reportedly quashed their attempts to push developing a chatbot. They went on to turn Character.AI into a unicorn, raising $150 million at a $1 billion valuation—and Google was apparently interested in that, because this past August, it hired Shazeer and De Freitas back, plus brought on other members of the Character.AI team, to work in its AI unit Deepmind.

  
• Prime gets hit with $68 million lawsuit–its biggest one yet

  Refresco Beverages US Inc. says it and Prime had a three-year agreement with a built-in minimum purchase agreement of 90%. Basically, Refresco would produce a certain amount of product, and if that product didn't sell, Prime would still have to pay an agreed-upon fee per case for 90% of it.

  
• One creator is suing another for (allegedly) copying her vibe. Can she win?

  According to the suit, Gifford (who has around 860,000 followers across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube) and Sheil (384K across the same platforms) met in December 2022 "with the intent of supporting one another's business." But after a joint photoshoot in January 2023, Sheil blocked Gifford and began posting content that "directly replicate[s] the products, poses, and/or styling" of Gifford's own content.

  
• Olympic Committee sues Prime for “millions of dollars” over its collab with Kevin Durant
• YouTube will pay $4.3 million to settle content moderator’s lawsuit
• Dispo among those hit by “burdensome, overbroad, vexatious and harassing” subpeona from Meta
• ‘Fortnite’ faces lawsuit from choreographer saying it stole his copyrighted moves for an emote
• Two TikTok moderators are suing ByteDance over exposure to “highly toxic and extremely disturbing” content
• Facebook faces lawsuit over celebrity crypto scam ads
• Logan Paul Sued By Production Company Over Fallout From Aokigahara Video
• Epic Games Deploys Viral #FreeFortnite Campaign As It Sues Apple, Google For Removing Game From App Stores