AI Lawsuits Filed in 2024

The Beijing Internet Court held that while copyright can exist in AI-generated images, the person asserting authorship must demonstrate they exerted creative effort in producing the AI-generated creation, reflecting per…

Described as the first Shanghai case involving alleged copyright infringement by AI large-model/LoRA-generated output. The defendant collected 20+ copyrighted character images from the Yuewen IP series 'Battle Through t…

Danish court confirmed that BoligPortal's rental listing database was protected by database rights due to significant investment. BoligPortal's HTML-linked opt-out statement (restricting scraping) qualified as an effect…

Texas family sued Character.AI alleging chatbots encouraged 17-year-old J.F. to self-mutilate, practice psychotherapy without a license, urge violence against parents, and push suicidal ideation. Also covers 11-year-old…

The FIP, representing Indian and international book publishers, alleges OpenAI used copyrighted literary and academic works without authorisation to train ChatGPT. Filed as an intervention/impleadment application in the…

Canada's first and largest AI copyright case. A coalition of Canada's leading news publishers alleges OpenAI: (1) scraped and reproduced their copyrighted news content without licence or payment to train ChatGPT (copyri…

India's first AI copyright case. ANI (Indian wire news agency) alleges OpenAI: (1) used automated web crawlers to scrape its copyrighted news articles without authorisation to train ChatGPT; (2) reproduced article conte…

GEMA sued OpenAI for copyright infringement of song lyrics of nine well-known German songs (including 'Atemlos', 'Männer', 'Über den Wolken') used to train GPT-4 and GPT-4o. The court ruled on 11 November 2025 largely i…

FTC issued a sprawling civil investigative demand (CID) to Microsoft in late 2024, signed by then-Chair Lina Khan. Compels disclosure of AI training costs, data center capacity, licensing practices, and details of the M…

First wrongful death suit against an AI chatbot company. 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III died by suicide in February 2024 after a months-long emotionally/sexually manipulative relationship with a Character.AI chatbot pers…

Three enforcement actions filed simultaneously as part of the inaugural Operation AI Comply sweep. Defendants marketed AI-powered e-commerce automation tools promising consumers significant passive income from AI-manage…

Part of 'Operation AI Comply' sweep launched September 25, 2024. FTC alleged Rytr's AI writing service let subscribers generate unlimited fake consumer reviews and testimonials. A final consent order banned Rytr from of…

DOJ and eight state AGs sued RealPage alleging its AI-powered rent-pricing software (AIRM and YieldStar) enabled competing landlords to share nonpublic competitively sensitive data to coordinate apartment prices, harmin…

Musk's wide-ranging 26-claim complaint alleges OpenAI and Altman fraudulently induced his $44.8M donation by promising OpenAI would remain an open, nonprofit AI lab for humanity's benefit, then engineered a for-profit c…

Plaintiffs allege OpenAI surreptitiously transcribed millions of YouTube users' videos without authorization, including plaintiff Petryazhna's copyrighted videos such as "A Bubble World," and used the transcriptions to…

Plaintiffs allege Google surreptitiously and without consent transcribed millions of YouTube users' videos, including plaintiff's registered copyrighted works, to create training datasets for its Gemini AI products. The…

DOJ launched investigation into Nvidia's AI chip market dominance (~70–95% market share). In August 2024, DOJ issued informal questionnaires; by September 2024 it escalated to legally binding subpoenas to Nvidia and thi…

Direct copyright; contributory; state law

Andre Dubus III and Susan Orlean, authors owning registered copyrights in books alleged to be included in the training dataset used by NVIDIA to train its NeMo Megatron large language models, filed a class action compla…

Authors Abdi Nazemian, Brian Keene, and Stewart O'Nan filed a class action complaint alleging direct copyright infringement by MosaicML for training its MPT LLM models on the RedPajama-Books dataset, a copy of Books3 fr…

Arizona AG Mayes sued RealPage and major landlords in Maricopa/Pima metro areas for conspiring to raise rents via RealPage's AI pricing algorithm. Allegations mirror the federal DOJ case: landlords shared nonpublic leas…

Shanghai Cultural Development discovered in early 2024 that the AI platform operated by Hangzhou Intelligent Technology allowed users to create, apply and share LoRA models to generate images substantially similar to co…

Hungarian appeals court held that downloading and storing data in a search engine's index for the purpose of creating AI-generated snippets of press articles was permitted under the TDM exception (Art. 4 DSM Directive).…