Summary
Visual artists Jingna Zhang, Sarah Andersen, Hope Larson, and Jessica Fink sued Google LLC and Alphabet Inc., alleging the companies trained their AI image generator Imagen on the plaintiffs' copyrighted works without authorization. The class action asserts direct copyright infringement against Google under 17 U.S.C. § 501 and vicarious infringement against Alphabet in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Case No. 5:2024cv02531, filed April 26, 2024). The proposed nationwide class seeks statutory damages, injunctive relief, and destruction of infringing copies, building on related AI training copyright suits like In re Google Generative AI Copyright Litigation.[1][2][3][4]
Case details
- Court
- NDCA
- Docket number
- 5:24-cv-02531
- Filed
- Apr 26, 2024
- Status
- Active
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