Direct copyright; vicarious; DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3); state law (consolidates Tremblay, Silverman, Chabon)
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…
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,…
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 an…
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 ac…
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 engin…
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 Gem…
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…
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,…
Consumer privacy class action filed September 5, 2023 against OpenAI and Microsoft alleging misuse of plaintiffs' personal data collected from social media platforms and other sites to train ChatGPT…
158-page class action filed by Clarkson Law Firm alleging OpenAI and Microsoft 'secretly scraped' personal data of hundreds of millions of internet users — including children — without consent to tra…
Securities class action alleging C3.ai and its executives made materially false and misleading statements about the company's AI capabilities, customer relationships (especially Baker Hughes partners…
State law (removed on federal preemption)
Direct copyright (consolidates Dubus v. NVIDIA)
Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3)
Direct copyright (multi-defendant)
Direct copyright
Direct copyright (8-defendant)
Direct copyright; vicarious; DMCA 1202(b)(1); CFAA; state law
Direct copyright; contributory infringement; DMCA 1202(b)
DMCA 1201(a); CA UCL
DMCA 1201(a)(1)(A)/(a)(2)
Direct copyright (consolidated with Martinez-Conde and Alexander)
Direct copyright; vicarious infringement; DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3) (consolidating Zhang and Leovy)
Direct copyright; vicarious (consolidates O'Nan and Makkai)
Direct copyright (consolidating Tanzer and Alexander)
Direct copyright
Direct copyright
Direct copyright
Direct copyright
Direct copyright; state law (voluntarily dismissed)
Direct copyright; state law (voluntarily dismissed)
Direct copyright; state law
Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory
DMCA 1201(a)
DMCA 1201(a)
DMCA 1201(a)
DMCA 1201(a)
DMCA 1201(a)
DMCA 1201(a)
DMCA 1201(a) (voluntarily dismissed)
DMCA 1201(a) (voluntarily dismissed)
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