AI Cases

N.D. Cal. · 3:23-cv-04663

Chabon v. Meta Platforms, Inc. was a class action filed on September 12, 2023, by authors including Michael Chabon, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Junot Díaz, and Ayelet Waldman, alleging that Meta used copyrighted literary works without authorisation to train its LLaMA models, violating…

Consolidated proceeding: Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc.

N.D. Cal. · 3:23-cv-04625

On 11 April 2025, Chabon 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. Chabon v. OpenAI is a…

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

N.D. Cal. · 4:23-cv-03918

OpenAI sues competing company over trademark infringement related to artificial intelligence branding. Detailed summary coming soon.

N.D. Cal. · 5:23-cv-03440

This consolidated class action combines two related matters before the Hon. Eumi K. Lee in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California: (1) Jill Leovy, individually and on behalf of all others similarly situated v. Google LLC, Case No. 5:23-cv-03440-EKL, and…

Consolidated proceeding: In Re Google Copyright Infringement

N.D. Cal. · 3:23-cv-03417

Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc. is a class action by authors, including Richard Kadrey, alleging that Meta unlawfully copied and used copyrighted books, including from datasets like Books3, to train its LLaMA language models, constituting large-scale copyright infringement under…

Consolidated proceeding: Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc.

N.D. Cal. · 3:23-cv-03416

On 21 April 2025, Silverman 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. Claims included…

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

J.P.M.L. · 3:23-cv-03416

On 21 April 2025, Silverman 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.

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

D. Del. · 1:23-cv-00135

Getty sued Stability AI for alleged copyright infringement over use of images in training Stable Diffusion, but on 14 August 2024 it applied for its claims to be voluntarily dismissed in order to refile them in another court. The case was closed on 18 August 2024.

N.D. Cal. · 3:23-cv-00201

Artists allege AI companies scraped their copyrighted artworks without permission to train Stable Diffusion. Visual artists Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, and Karla Ortiz filed a landmark class action in January 2023 against Stability AI, Midjourney, and DeviantArt, alleging…

N.D. Cal. · 4:22-cv-06823

In J. Doe 1 v. GitHub, Inc., a group of programmers sued GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI, alleging that AI models Codex and Copilot were trained on their open-source code in violation of legal rights. Because the code was licensed under open-source terms, the plaintiffs focused…

D. Del. · 1:20-cv-00613

Filed in December 2020, this is the first case in which a US court has substantively rejected a fair use defence for AI training. Thomson Reuters sued AI startup ROSS Intelligence for using Westlaw's copyrighted headnotes and Key Number System to train a competing AI-powered…