AI Lawsuits Filed in 2025

Plaintiffs, authors who opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement, allege copyright infringement by AI companies including Anthropic for using their works obtained from shadow libraries without authorization to tra…

Plaintiffs allege defendants Kunlun Tech Co., Ltd. and Skywork AI Pte. Ltd. systematically copied, ingested, stored, and used plaintiffs' copyrighted sound recordings (registered and unregistered), musical compositions…

First AI copyright lawsuit in Italy. RTI (broadcaster) and Medusa Film (film producer) allege Perplexity AI massively and systematically acquired, copied, and stored their proprietary audiovisual and film content — incl…

Hagens Berman filed a wrongful death suit alleging that on August 5, 2025, ChatGPT-4o repeatedly affirmed Stein-Erik Soelberg's delusions related to mental illness, deepening his psychosis over months of hundreds of hou…

Publishers of nine regional newspapers, including The San Diego Union-Tribune LLC, allege that Microsoft and OpenAI systematically copied, stored, and used hundreds of thousands of their copyrighted news articles withou…

First Danish lawsuit by a rights organisation against an AI music company. KODA alleges Suno trained its AI model on Danish artists' copyrighted songs without permission or payment, and that Suno concealed the scope and…

Starbuck filed a separate Delaware defamation suit against Google alleging its Gemini and Gemma AI chatbots falsely stated he participated in January 6 and accused him of sexual assault, citing non-existent news article…

Quebec visual artist Chloé Sabourin filed an application to commence class actions against both Meta and OpenAI on behalf of persons domiciled in Quebec who hold copyright in artistic works used without authorisation by…

13-year-old Juliana Peralta from Thornton, Colorado died by suicide in November 2023 after extensive Character.AI chatbot interactions involving romantic and sexual content. Family filed suit in September 2025; Juliana'…

16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide on April 11, 2025, after months of interactions with ChatGPT-4o which allegedly validated his suicidal ideation, provided detailed suicide instructions, and discouraged him from te…

Second C3.ai securities class action, covering class period February 26 – August 8, 2025. Alleges management concealed that CEO Siebel's significant health issues impaired his ability to close deals, rendering revenue g…

First major generative AI copyright case in Brazil. Folha de S.Paulo alleges OpenAI: (1) unlawfully scraped and used its copyrighted journalistic content — including paywall-protected articles — to train ChatGPT without…

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck filed in Delaware Superior Court alleging Meta AI repeatedly and falsely stated he participated in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, was charged with a misdemeanor, advanced Holocaus…

Vermont AG re-filed its lawsuit against Clearview AI in Vermont state court just five weeks after the federal MDL settlement was approved over Vermont's objections. Seeks declaration of Vermont Consumer Protection Act v…

DJV claims that standard contractual terms used between the newspaper and freelance journalists — requiring journalists to grant the paper rights to use their articles for AI training — are unfair contract terms creatin…

Shareholders allege BigBear.ai maintained deficient accounting review policies, incorrectly determined that its 2026 Convertible Notes' conversion option qualified for a derivative scope exception, and failed to bifurca…

Hungarian news publisher Like Company alleged Google's Gemini (Bard) chatbot reproduced and communicated to the public substantial portions of its press articles without consent between June 2023 and February 2024. The…

SoundHound AI (NASDAQ: SOUN) accused of concealing material weaknesses in internal controls over financial reporting that impaired its ability to properly account for corporate acquisitions (SYNQ3 and Amelia). Plaintiff…

First major AI copyright case in France. Three French authors' and publishers' associations allege Meta used their members' copyright-protected literary and creative works without authorisation or consent to train its L…

Quebec-based self-published novelist Anne Robillard filed an application in the Quebec Superior Court in March 2025 seeking authorisation to commence a class action on behalf of all persons domiciled in Quebec who hold…

India's major music labels allege OpenAI used their copyrighted sound recordings, musical compositions, and lyrics without authorisation to train its AI models. Sought to intervene in ANI v. OpenAI; Justice Amit Bansal…

Musk's xAI sued OpenAI alleging it poached xAI employees and misappropriated trade secrets. Judge Rita F. Lin dismissed the complaint, finding it 'notably absent' of allegations about OpenAI's own acquisition, use, know…

FTC launched a formal inquiry into major tech companies' AI chatbots, focusing on what companies are doing to evaluate risks to children who use chatbots as companions. The inquiry was triggered by the wave of Character…

A Munich local court held that AI-generated logos in this case did not meet the threshold for copyright protection because they lacked sufficient identifiable human creative influence. The court clarified that AI-genera…

A Frankfurt court held that: (1) song lyrics initially created by a human and subsequently combined with AI-generated music remain eligible for copyright protection, provided the lyrics were created by a human and indep…

A German court held that the unlicensed use of an AI-generated voice that is strikingly similar to a real voice actor's voice in a commercial YouTube video infringes the actor's right of personality (Persönlichkeitsrech…