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CopyrightActiveDec 14 · in 35dDow Jones sued v. PerplexityThe Wall Street Journal and New York Post publishers say Perplexity copies their articles to answer questions.Telephone conferenceS.D. N.Y.filed Oct 2024CopyrightActiveUnverifiedDec 17 · in 38dCarreyrou sued v. Anthropic PBCSued for copyright infringement.Motion to dismiss hearingN.D. Cal.filed Dec 2025CopyrightActiveJan 12, 2027 · in 64dJamendo sued v. NVIDIAJamendo alleges NVIDIA used its music catalog to train audio AI models without permission.Initial case management conferenceN.D. Cal.filed Jun 2026CopyrightActiveJul 26, 2027 · in 9moHendrix sued v. AppleAuthors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson allege Apple trained its OpenELM and Apple Intelligence models on pirated books from the Books3 dataset; later consolidated with Martinez-Conde and Alexander v. Apple.Further case management conferenceN.D. Cal.filed Sep 2025CopyrightActiveAug 31, 2027 · in 10moGetty Images sued v. Stability AI (N.D. Cal.)Getty refiled its US copyright and trademark claims over Stable Diffusion training in California after its Delaware case stalled on jurisdiction.Dispositive motion hearingN.D. Cal.filed Aug 2025CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Oct 2026Dow Jones & Company, Inc. sued v. Bradstreet & Company, Inc.Sued for copyright infringement.S.D. OhioCopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Oct 2026Elsevier Inc. sued v. Meta Platforms, Inc.Sued for copyright infringement.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Sep 2026UMG Recordings sued v. Suno (II)A second label suit against Suno covering about 60,000 additional works, filed parallel to the original 2024 case.D. Mass.CopyrightActivefiled Sep 2026Times Publishing Co. sued v. Microsoft and OpenAITimes Publishing Company alleges Microsoft and OpenAI used its newspaper content without a license to train and run AI products.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Aug 2026Aylo Premium Ltd sued v. Does 1-20Sued for copyright infringement.W.D. Wash.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Aug 2026Elsevier Inc. sued v. Naxlex Prep LLCSued for copyright infringement.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Aug 2026Round Hill Music sued v. AnthropicMusic publisher Round Hill alleges Anthropic trained Claude on its song lyrics without a license.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Aug 2026Round Hill Music sued v. SunoMusic publisher Round Hill sued Suno and Bright Data, alleging its catalog was scraped and used to train Suno models; it says damages could approach $1 billion.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Aug 2026Sullivan sued v. OpenAIProposed class action alleging OpenAI trained on copyrighted works without permission; filed as a companion to Sullivan v. Meta in California.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Jul 2026EVOX Productions sued v. MidjourneyAutomotive image licensor EVOX alleges Midjourney trained on its vehicle photographs without a license.C.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Jul 2026Sony Music Entertainment sued v. Uncharted Labs (II)Sony Music's second suit against Udio, related to the 2024 label case.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Jul 2026Hachette Book Group sued v. GoogleBook publishers led by Hachette allege Google copied their books without permission to train its Gemini models.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Jul 2026EVOX Productions sued v. GoogleEVOX alleges Google used its copyrighted vehicle images to train image generation models.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Jul 2026EVOX Productions sued v. Stability AIEVOX alleges Stability AI, Runway, Hugging Face and DeviantArt trained or distributed image models using its copyrighted vehicle photos.C.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Jul 2026Sullivan sued v. MetaProposed class action alleging Meta trained Llama on copyrighted works without authorization.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Jun 2026Jamendo sued v. SunoMusic platform Jamendo alleges Suno scraped its catalog of recordings to train its models.D. Mass.CopyrightActivefiled Jun 2026Richner Communications sued v. MicrosoftThirty-five local and regional newspaper publishers representing about 400 outlets allege Microsoft and OpenAI copied their journalism to build AI products.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Jun 2026Shakespeare sued v. AnthropicMore than 80 authors and publishers, including opt-outs from the Bartz settlement, sue Anthropic over training on pirated books, naming Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann individually.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Jun 2026VMware LLC sued v. Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc.Sued for copyright infringement.D. Del.CopyrightActivefiled May 2026CNN sued v. PerplexityCNN alleges Perplexity copies its news content without permission to power its answer engine.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled May 2026Gilbert sued v. AnthropicCopyright suit in Massachusetts alleging Anthropic trained Claude on the plaintiff's works without permission.D. Mass.CopyrightActivefiled May 2026Hobbs sued v. MetaSuit against Meta, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta AI researchers alleging unauthorized use of copyrighted books to train Llama.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled May 2026Tanzer sued v. AdobeProposed class action by authors alleging Adobe trained AI models on pirated books.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled May 2026Kwon sued v. AnthropicAuthor suit alleging Anthropic used pirated books to train Claude, deemed related to the Cambronne (formerly Carreyrou) case.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled May 2026Cruz sued v. Anthropic PBCSued for copyright infringement.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled May 2026Dow Jones & Company, Inc. sued v. Thor Metals Group LLCSued for copyright infringement.C.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled May 2026Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC sued v. Anthropic PBCSued for copyright infringement.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled May 2026Elsevier sued v. MetaAcademic publisher Elsevier alleges Meta downloaded pirated copies of its books and journals to train Llama models.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled May 2026Cognella sued v. MetaAcademic publisher Cognella alleges Meta used pirated copies of its textbooks to train Llama.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled May 2026Cognella, Inc. sued v. Anthropic PBCSued for copyright infringement.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled May 2026Carreyrou sued v. OpenAIClaims by author John Carreyrou and others against OpenAI were severed from the multi-defendant Carreyrou suit in California and sent to the OpenAI MDL.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Apr 2026Ted Entertainment sued v. OpenAIYouTube creators behind h3h3 Productions allege OpenAI downloaded and trained on their videos without permission.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Mar 2026AYLO Premiun Ltd sued v. KaSued for copyright infringement.W.D. Wash.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Mar 2026Beaulier sued v. NVIDIA CorporationA copyright case.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Mar 2026BMG Rights Management (US) LLC sued v. Anthropic PBCSued for copyright infringement.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Mar 2026KO Lopez Media, LLC sued v. Advance Local Media, LLCSued for copyright infringement.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Mar 2026Encyclopaedia Britannica sued v. OpenAIBritannica and Merriam-Webster allege OpenAI copied their reference content to train ChatGPT and reproduces it in answers.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Mar 2026Gracenote Media Services sued v. OpenAINielsen-owned Gracenote alleges OpenAI copied its proprietary entertainment metadata and descriptions to train its models.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Feb 2026Gardner sued v. Runway AIProposed class action alleging Runway trained its video generation models on copyrighted videos without permission.C.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Feb 2026Ace Cam sued v. Runway AIVideo creators allege Runway trained its Gen video models on their copyrighted YouTube videos.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Feb 2026Erickson sued v. OpenAI, Inc.Sued for copyright infringement.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Feb 2026Goddard sued v. Anthropic PBCA copyright case.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Jan 2026Concord Music Group, Inc. sued v. Anthropic PBCSued for copyright infringement.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Jan 2026Ted Entertainment sued v. SnapYouTube creators allege Snap scraped their videos from YouTube to train AI video features.C.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Jan 2026Erickson sued v. OpenAI, Inc.Sued for copyright infringement.D. Nev.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Jan 2026Gholami sued v. OpenAI, Inc.Sued for copyright infringement.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Jan 2026Synopsys, Inc. sued v. Black Sesame Technologies, Inc.Sued for copyright infringement.N.D. Cal.CopyrightDismissedfiled Dec 2025Anders sued v. Stability AICopyright suit against Stability AI over image model training, dismissed by the Western District of North Carolina.W.D. N.C.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Dec 2025Ted Entertainment, Inc. sued v. ByteDance IncSued for copyright infringement.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Dec 2025Carreyrou sued v. OpenAI, Inc.Sued for copyright infringement.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Dec 2025Attack the Sound sued v. Kunlun TechArtists allege Kunlun's Mureka music AI trained on their recordings and extracted voiceprints without BIPA consent.N.D. Ill.CopyrightActivefiled Dec 2025Lyon sued v. AdobeAuthor Elizabeth Lyon alleges Adobe trained its SlimLM small language model on a dataset that included pirated books.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Dec 2025New York Times sued v. PerplexityThe New York Times alleges Perplexity copies and repackages its journalism in AI answers and attributes fabricated content to the paper.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Dec 2025Chicago Tribune sued v. PerplexityThe Chicago Tribune alleges Perplexity copies its articles, including paywalled content, to generate answers that substitute for its journalism.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Dec 2025Aylo Premium Ltd sued v. ChernovSued for copyright infringement.W.D. Wash.CopyrightActivefiled Nov 2025California Newspapers Partnership sued v. MicrosoftA group of California newspapers alleges Microsoft and OpenAI used their articles without a license to train and run generative AI products.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Nov 2025Ted Entertainment sued v. NVIDIAYouTube creators allege NVIDIA circumvented YouTube protections to download millions of videos to train its Cosmos video models.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Nov 2025U.S. News & World Report sued v. OpenAIU.S. News alleges OpenAI copied its rankings and articles to train and power ChatGPT.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Nov 2025James sued v. Snowflake IncOn November 21, 2025, a class action lawsuit was filed against us in the United States District Court for the District of Montana alleging copyright infringement on behalf of a putative class of individuals and entities that own a United States copyright in…D. Mont.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Nov 2025August Image, LLC sued v. X Corp.Sued for copyright infringement.C.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Nov 2025Entrepreneur Media sued v. MetaEntrepreneur Media alleges Meta copied its business books and magazines, including via torrenting, to train Llama models.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Nov 2025James sued v. Together ComputerProposed class action alleging Together AI built and distributed the RedPajama dataset and trained models using pirated books.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Nov 2025Alexander sued v. Salesforce, Inc.Sued for copyright infringement.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Oct 2025James sued v. Cerebras SystemsProposed class action alleging Cerebras trained language models on datasets containing pirated books.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Oct 2025Woulard sued v. SunoIllinois artists allege Suno trained on their music and extracted biometric voiceprints without consent under BIPA, alongside copyright claims.N.D. Ill.CopyrightActivefiled Oct 2025In re Salesforce LLM Copyright Infringement Litigation (Tanzer sued v. Salesforce)Authors allege Salesforce trained its xGen language models on pirated books from datasets such as RedPajama and The Pile; consolidated with Alexander v. Salesforce.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Oct 2025Martinez-Conde sued v. AppleNeuroscientists Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik allege Apple used pirated copies of their books from shadow libraries to train its AI models.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Sep 2025Disney sued v. MiniMaxDisney, NBCUniversal and Warner Bros. Discovery allege Chinese AI company MiniMax built its Hailuo video generator on their films and outputs their characters.C.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Sep 2025Encyclopaedia Britannica sued v. PerplexityBritannica and Merriam-Webster allege Perplexity scrapes and copies their reference content and misattributes AI answers to them.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Sep 2025Warner Bros. Discovery sued v. MidjourneyWarner Bros. Discovery alleges Midjourney trained on its films and lets users generate characters such as Superman, Batman and Scooby-Doo.C.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Jul 2025Strike 3 Holdings sued v. MetaAdult film producer Strike 3 Holdings alleges Meta torrented thousands of its videos to use as AI training data.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Jun 2025Denial sued v. OpenAIProposed class action on behalf of owners of registered non-book textual works and unregistered works alleging OpenAI trained on them without permission.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Jun 2025Bird sued v. MicrosoftAuthors including Kai Bird allege Microsoft used nearly 200,000 pirated books to train its Megatron language model.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Jun 2025Justice sued v. Uncharted Labs (Udio)Independent musicians bring a proposed class action alleging Udio trained on their recordings without permission.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Jun 2025Justice sued v. SunoIndependent musicians led by Anthony Justice bring a proposed class action alleging Suno trained on their recordings without permission.D. Mass.CopyrightActivefiled Jun 2025Disney sued v. MidjourneyDisney and Universal say Midjourney generates their characters on demand, from Darth Vader to the Minions.C.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Apr 2025Ziff Davis sued v. OpenAIZiff Davis, owner of IGN, CNET, PCMag and Mashable, alleges OpenAI copied its articles to train models and ignored robots.txt opt-outs.D. Del.CopyrightActivefiled Apr 2025In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement LitigationThe multidistrict litigation that gathers the author and news publisher copyright suits against OpenAI and Microsoft before one judge in New York.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Feb 2025Advance Local sued v. CohereFourteen news publishers, including Conde Nast and The Atlantic, say Cohere copied their articles to train and serve its models.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Oct 2024Alcon Entertainment sued v. TeslaThe Blade Runner 2049 producer alleges Tesla and Warner Bros. Discovery used an AI-generated image mimicking the film at Tesla's robotaxi unveiling after being refused permission.C.D. Cal.CopyrightOn appealfiled Aug 2024Bartz sued v. AnthropicAuthors sued over books used to train Claude, including copies taken from pirate libraries. A class of authors settled for $1.5 billion, about $3,000 per book; objectors have appealed the final approval.$1.5 billionN.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Aug 2024Millette sued v. OpenAIYouTube creator David Millette alleges OpenAI transcribed and trained on YouTube videos without creators consent.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Jun 2024Center for Investigative Reporting sued v. OpenAIThe nonprofit publisher of Mother Jones and Reveal alleges OpenAI and Microsoft used its journalism without permission to train and run ChatGPT and Copilot.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Jun 2024Concord Music sued v. AnthropicMusic publishers say Claude was trained on and reproduces song lyrics they control.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Jun 2024UMG Recordings sued v. SunoThe major record labels, coordinated by the RIAA, allege Suno copied their sound recordings at scale to train its music generator.D. Mass.CopyrightActivefiled Jun 2024UMG Recordings sued v. Uncharted Labs (Udio)The major record labels allege Udio copied their sound recordings to train its AI music generator.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Apr 2024Daily News sued v. MicrosoftEight Alden Global Capital newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, allege Microsoft and OpenAI copied millions of their articles to train and power chatbots.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActiveUnverifiedfiled Mar 2024In re Mosaic LLM Litigation (O'Nan sued v. Databricks)Authors allege Databricks and its MosaicML unit trained the MPT language models on Books3, a dataset of pirated books; consolidated with Makkai v. Databricks.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Mar 2024Nazemian sued v. NVIDIAAuthors Abdi Nazemian, Brian Keene and Stewart O'Nan allege NVIDIA trained its NeMo Megatron models on the Books3 dataset of pirated books; consolidated with Dubus v. NVIDIA.N.D. Cal.CopyrightOn appealfiled Feb 2024Raw Story sued v. OpenAIRaw Story and AlterNet alleged OpenAI removed copyright management information from their articles in training data; the court dismissed for lack of standing.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Feb 2024The Intercept sued v. OpenAIThe Intercept alleges OpenAI stripped author, title and copyright information from its articles when using them as training data, in violation of DMCA section 1202(b).S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Jan 2024Basbanes sued v. MicrosoftJournalists Nicholas Basbanes and Nicholas Gage allege Microsoft and OpenAI used their books to train large language models without permission.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Dec 2023New York Times sued v. Microsoft and OpenAIThe Times says millions of its articles were copied to train ChatGPT and Copilot, and that the models reproduce its journalism. Coordinated with the other news and author suits in the OpenAI copyright MDL.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Nov 2023Alter sued v. OpenAINonfiction authors led by Julian Sancton (later Jonathan Alter) allege OpenAI and Microsoft trained models on their books without a license.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Oct 2023Huckabee sued v. BloombergAuthors including Mike Huckabee allege Bloomberg trained BloombergGPT on the Books3 dataset of pirated books.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Sep 2023Authors Guild sued v. OpenAIThe Authors Guild and 17 authors, including George R.R. Martin and John Grisham, allege OpenAI copied their books without permission to train GPT models; Microsoft was later added as a defendant.S.D. N.Y.CopyrightActivefiled Jul 2023In re Google Generative AI Copyright LitigationConsolidated class action by authors and visual artists alleging Google trained Bard, Gemini and Imagen on their copyrighted works without permission; combines the Leovy (J.L. v. Alphabet) and Zhang suits.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Jul 2023Kadrey sued v. MetaAuthors, including Sarah Silverman, sued Meta over books used to train Llama. The court ruled for Meta on fair use for training in 2025; claims over torrent distribution continue.N.D. Cal.CopyrightActivefiled Jun 2023In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation (Tremblay sued v. OpenAI)Authors Paul Tremblay, Mona Awad, Sarah Silverman and others allege OpenAI trained ChatGPT on pirated copies of their books; the Silverman and Chabon suits were consolidated into it.N.D. Cal.CopyrightDismissedfiled Feb 2023Getty Images sued v. Stability AI (Delaware)Getty claimed Stable Diffusion was trained on 12 million of its photos. Getty dismissed the Delaware case voluntarily in August 2025.D. Del.CopyrightActivefiled Jan 2023Andersen sued v. Stability AIVisual artists sued image generator makers over training on their work without consent.N.D. Cal.CopyrightDecidedfiled Nov 2022Doe sued v. GitHubDevelopers sued over Copilot suggesting their open source code without its license terms. The Ninth Circuit decided the certified appeal in September 2026.N.D. Cal.CopyrightOn appealfiled May 2020Thomson Reuters sued v. ROSS IntelligenceThe first AI training fair use ruling: ROSS used Westlaw headnotes to build a legal search tool. The court rejected fair use in 2025 and let ROSS appeal to the Third Circuit before trial.D. Del.CopyrightDecidedfiled Jan 2019Google sued v. Oracle (Supreme Court)Oracle claimed Google copied Java API code into Android; the Court held the use was fair.US Supreme CourtCopyrightSettledfiled Mar 2016Oracle sued v. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Solaris patches)Oracle said HPE was liable for a contractor, Terix, providing Oracle Solaris patches without authorization.$30 millionN.D. Cal.