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The Times alleges OpenAI and Microsoft copied millions of its articles to train ChatGPT, seeking "billions" in statutory damages. Discovery ongoing; summary judgment scheduled April 2026.
Three authors sued Anthropic for training Claude on pirated books. Settled for $1.5B — the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history. Final fairness hearing April 2026.
UK High Court rejected Getty's secondary copyright claim, holding Stable Diffusion model weights are not "infringing copies." Getty won limited trademark claims for watermark reproduction.
Munich Regional Court held that OpenAI's use of copyrighted German song lyrics to train GPT-4 violates German copyright law — the first major European AI training ruling against an AI developer. On appeal.
Class action by 17 prominent authors including George R.R. Martin and David Baldacci. Judge Stein denied OpenAI's motion to dismiss output-based claims in October 2025. Class cert looms.
Major labels allege Suno trained its text-to-music model on copyrighted sound recordings. Warner settled Oct 2025; UMG & Sony continue against Suno. Expert reports due.
Judge Stein denied OpenAI's objections, ordering production of the full 20 million de-identified ChatGPT log sample.
First European ruling holding that training an AI model on copyrighted song lyrics without license constitutes reproduction under German copyright law.
English High Court held model weights are not "infringing copies" under the CDPA; Getty won limited trademark infringement on watermark outputs.
Judge Stein denied OpenAI's motion to dismiss, holding short summaries of plaintiffs' works may be infringing absent fair use.
A few federal districts and two European courts have produced most of the substantive AI rulings to date.
Media and publisher suits against AI developers.
Book-training and music-publisher suits.
First major AI-training fair-use ruling.
First European ruling against an AI developer on training-data copyright.
Secondary copyright and trademark questions for generative image models.
Additional filings and regulatory actions across member-state courts and DPAs.
Non-litigation AI harms — hallucinations, bias, safety failures, and near-misses — drawn from public reporting.
Why Bartz set the floor — not the ceiling — for damages in pirated-book training cases, and what Claude-era defendants should expect next.
GEMA v. OpenAI rejected the TDM exception as applied to model memorization. That single sentence reshapes European AI training.
The U.S. fair-use scoreboard after Bartz, Kadrey, Thomson Reuters v. Ross, and NYT v. OpenAI — with the holdings quoted verbatim.
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