AI Cases

M.D. Fla. · 6:24-cv-01903

Garcia alleges Character.AI's chatbot encouraged her son toward self-harm, leading to his death. Claims include negligence and deceptive trade practices. Mother Megan Garcia filed a wrongful death lawsuit in October 2024 against Character.AI, its founders Noam Shazeer and…

C.D. Cal. · 2:24-cv-09033

On 21 October 2024, Alcon Entertainment, producer and copyright owner of Blade Runner 2049, sued Tesla, Elon Musk, and Warner Bros. Discovery for unauthorised use of copyrighted imagery from the film during Tesla’s October 2024 “We Robot” marketing event. The event, held at…

N.D. Cal. · 3:24-cv-06893

On 18 October 2024, Farnsworth v Meta was consolidated into Kadrey v Meta. Farnsworth v Meta is a class action filed by author Christopher Farnsworth on 1 October 2024 under the Copyright Act, alleging that Meta Platforms, Inc. unlawfully reproduced and used copyrighted books…

Consolidated proceeding: Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc.

N.D. Cal. · 3:24-cv-05417

Class action by authors who allege their books were used without permission to train Anthropic's Claude models. Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sued Anthropic for using their copyrighted books to train Claude AI models without permission. The…

N.D. Cal. · 4:24-cv-04722

N.D. Cal. · 5:24-cv-04710

Transferred to SDNY then consolidated into the multidistrict litigation (MDL), In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement, before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for coordinated pre-trial proceedings.

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

J.P.M.L. · 1:24-cv-04872

On 21 April 2025, the Center for Investigative Reporting v. OpenAI was transferred and consolidated into the multidistrict litigation (MDL), In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement, before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for coordinated pre-trial…

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

N.D. Cal. · 5:24-cv-03811

Leading publishers including Concord, Universal Music, and ABKCO filed an action on 18 October 2023 alleging that Anthropic, developer of the Claude AI models, engaged in the large-scale copying and reproduction of copyrighted song lyrics without authorisation. The complaint…

D. Mass. · 1:24-cv-11611

In UMG Recordings, Inc. et al. v. Suno, Inc. (Case No. 1:24-cv-11611, S.D.N.Y., filed 24 June 2024), Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group accuse Suno, Inc. of willful copyright infringement for using their protected sound recordings to train…

S.D.N.Y. · 1:24-cv-04777

On 24 June 2024, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment, and Warner Music Group jointly sued Uncharted Labs, the developer of Udio, alleging widespread copyright infringement. The plaintiffs asserted that Udio copied and ingested decades of copyrighted sound…

S.D.N.Y. · 1:24-cv-03770

Voice actors sue AI voice generator for alleged copyright infringement and violations of New York Civil Rights Law.

S.D.N.Y. · 1:24-cv-03285

Detailed summary coming soon.

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

N.D. Cal. · 5:24-cv-02531

On September 11, 2025, Judge Eumi K. Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued a ruling in In re Google Generative AI Copyright Litigation (23-cv-03440), a consolidated class action brought by ten authors and artists against Google and its…

Consolidated proceeding: In Re Google Copyright Infringement

S.D.N.Y. · 1:24-cv-01514

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

S.D.N.Y. · 1:24-cv-01515

On 3 April 2025, The Intercept Media v. OpenAI was transferred and consolidated into the multidistrict litigation (MDL), In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement, before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for coordinated pre-trial proceedings. The…

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

S.D.N.Y. · 1:24-cv-00084

Detailed summary coming soon.

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

N.D. Cal. · 3:23-cv-06663

Huckabee v. Meta Platforms, Inc. was a proposed class action brought by authors and public figures, including Mike Huckabee, David Kinnaman, and Tsh Oxenreider, alleging that Meta trained its LLaMA large language models on copyrighted literary works without authorisation, in…

Consolidated proceeding: Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc.

S.D.N.Y. · 1:23-cv-11195

On 3 April 2025, The New York Times Company v. Microsoft Corporation was transferred and consolidated into the multidistrict litigation (MDL), In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement, before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for coordinated pre-trial…

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

S.D.N.Y. · 1:23-cv-10211

On 3 April 2025, Alter v. OpenAI was transferred and consolidated into the multidistrict litigation (MDL), In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement, before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for coordinated pre-trial proceedings. Alter v. OpenAI is a…

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

S.D.N.Y. · 1:23-cv-08292

On 3 April 2025, Authors Guild v. OpenAI was transferred and consolidated into the multidistrict litigation (MDL), In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement, before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for coordinated pre-trial proceedings. The Authors Guild…

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