AI Cases

S.D.N.Y. · 1:25-cv-08736

On 22 October 2025, Reddit, Inc. filed this lawsuit against Perplexity AI, Oxylabs, AWMProxy, and SerpApi, alleging a coordinated and unauthorised scheme to circumvent Reddit’s and Google’s security systems and scrape vast amounts of Reddit’s copyrighted user content. The…

N.D. Ill. · 1:25-cv-12684

David Woulard and nine other plaintiffs have commenced proceedings against Suno, Inc. in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleging systematic copyright infringement and related violations. The complaint asserts that Suno built its commercial…

N.D. Cal. · 3:25-cv-08862

On 15th October 2025, two authors, E. Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore, filed proceedings against Salesforce, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. According to the plaintiffs, Salesforce’s models were trained in part on Books3, a…

N.D. Ill. · 1:25-cv-12613

Multiple claimants including David Woulard, Attack the Sound LLC, and several individual musicians have commenced proceedings against Uncharted Labs, Inc. (trading as Udio.com) in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, alleging systematic copyright…

N.D. Cal. · 4:25-cv-08695

Martinez-Conde v. Apple Inc. is a class action commenced in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. The Plaintiffs, two neuroscientist authors, allege that Apple Inc. unlawfully reproduced copyrighted books without authorisation to train its…

Consolidated proceeding: Hendrix v. Apple Inc

N.D. Ill. · 1:25-cv-11431

James “Jimmy” Keene, a celebrity, author, television executive producer, and former FBI operative, filed a defamation lawsuit against Google LLC in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. The matter was moved to the Illinois County Court on 22 September 2025. Keene is best…

C.D. Cal. · 2:25-cv-08768

Various movie studios including Disney, Lucasfilm, and 20th Century Studios filed a suit against MiniMax Technology Ltd., operator of Hailuo AI, alleging copyright infringement on a mass scale. The Plaintiffs claim that MiniMax's AI-powered image and video generation service…

N.D.N.Y. · 1:25-cv-01295

On 16 September 2025, P.J., on behalf of her minor child, filed a civil complaint against Character Technologies, Inc., its founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas Adiwarsana, and Google LLC/Alphabet Inc., alleging that Character AI exposed the minor to sexualised and…

D. Colo. · 1:25-cv-02906

Parents of a 12-year-old girl (T.S.) allege that Character.AI (C.AI), its founders, and Google designed and marketed an unsafe AI chatbot that exposed minors to sexually explicit and psychologically harmful interactions. Plaintiffs claim C.AI’s recommendation system actively…

D. Colo. · 1:25-cv-02907

This wrongful death and product liability case concerns the death of 13-year-old Juliana Peralta, whose parents, Cynthia Montoya and William “Wil” Peralta, allege that Character.AI (C.AI) and its partners, including Google and Alphabet, created, marketed, and profited from a…

D.D.C. · 1:25-cv-03192

On 12 September 2025, Penske Media Corporation (PMC), the publisher of Rolling Stone, Variety, and Billboard and other publications, filed an antitrust suit against Google and Alphabet, alleging the tech giant is unlawfully extending its monopoly in general search into online…

S.D.N.Y. · 1:25-cv-07546

Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. and Merriam-Webster, Inc. have commenced proceedings against Perplexity AI, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging copyright infringement and trademark violations. The Complaint asserts that…

N.D. Cal. · 4:25-cv-07558

Two authors, Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, have launched a proposed class action against Apple Inc. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, alleging that Apple’s OpenELM large language models were trained on copyrighted books without…

Consolidated proceeding: Hendrix v. Apple Inc

C.D. Cal. · 2:25-cv-08376

Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., DC Comics, Turner Entertainment Co., Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc., and The Cartoon Network, Inc. have commenced proceedings against Midjourney, Inc. in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, alleging direct…

Consolidated proceeding: Disney Enterprises Inc. v. Midjourney Inc.

Cal. Super. Ct. San Francisco · CGC-25-628528

Matthew and Maria Raine, parents of 16-year-old Adam Raine, have brought a suit against OpenAI, Inc., its affiliates, and CEO Sam Altman, alleging that ChatGPT’s interactions directly contributed to their son’s suicide. The complaint claims that ChatGPT encouraged Adam’s…

N.D. Tex. · 4:25-cv-00914

S.D.N.Y. · 1:25-cv-06286

Authors Catherine Denial, Ian McDowell, and Steven Schwartz have filed a class action lawsuit in the Northern District of California Court against OpenAI and Microsoft. The plaintiffs allege that their copyrighted works were unlawfully copied, distributed, and used to train…

Consolidated proceeding: In re OpenAI Inc. Copyright Infringement Litigation (MDL 3143)

N.D. Cal. · 5:25-cv-06213

On 23 July 2025, Strike 3 Holdings, LLC filed a lawsuit against Meta Platforms, Inc. alleging that Meta engaged in extensive, willful copyright infringement by downloading and redistributing over 2,300 copyrighted adult films owned by Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife, LLC. The…

N.D. Ill. · 1:25-cv-07518

On 3 July 2025, Megan Lisota filed a class action complaint on behalf of patients of a dental practice, Heartland Dental. The Complaint alleges that Heartland Dental and RingCentral unlawfully intercepted patient calls through RingCentral’s AI-powered transcription and…

N.D. Cal. · 3:25-cv-05643

Reddit filed a lawsuit against Anthropic in June 2025 before the San Francisco County Court. The matter was then moved to the California District Court on 3 July alleging the AI company scraped millions (potentially billions) of Reddit posts and comments without permission to…