EVOX Productions wins copyright suit v. Hugging Face (recently acquired by NVIDIA) by default judgment. Hugging Face failed to answer.

EVOX Productions won a default judgment in its copyright lawsuit against Hugging Face after the AI platform, recently acquired by NVIDIA for $19.93 billion, failed to answer the complaint. The Clerk of the court granted the default judgment, while other defendants Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art have answered and the case against them proceeds. Damages against Hugging Face have not yet been determined.

NVIDIA’s $19.93 billion acquisition of Hugging Face https://huggingface.co , a platform for sharing open source models as well as datasets, just got a bit more complicated. Hugging Face, one of the defendants in a copyright suit filed by the car imagery producer EVOX Productions, failed to answer the complaint after reportedly being served with a summons. After EVOX Productions requested a default judgment against Hugging Face, the Clerk of the court granted it. The other defendants — Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art — all answered the complaint. So the case against them proceeds. It’s unclear whether the court will determine any damages award against Hugging Face immediately or instead stay that decision until later, such as when the parties have a chance to contest how many images of EVOX Productions were used. other default judgments This is not the first default judgment in the AI copyright litigation. Default judgments were obtained in Atlantic Recording v. Anna’s Archive and Apress v. Anna’s Archive in the Southern District of New York.