Every major AI lawsuit fits into one of these doctrinal categories. Click any issue to see every case in it.
The core battleground. Every major news publisher, author class, record label, and image library has now sued over unlicensed use of their works to train LLMs or diffusion models. Fair use is the universal defense.
Claims that model outputs themselves reproduce copyrighted works. Authors Guild v. OpenAI (Oct 2025) held that short summaries of plaintiffs' novels may infringe. RAG systems like Perplexity face output-based claims directly.
BIPA (Illinois), CCPA (California), and state AG actions against face-recognition and biometric-AI companies. Clearview remains the landmark series.
Plaintiffs suing over false statements produced by AI. Walters v. OpenAI (dismissed), Battle v. Microsoft, and a growing set of cases testing whether platforms are "publishers" of model output.
Discrimination actions over AI-driven resume screeners and interview tools. EEOC guidance applied to employer deployments — several putative class actions under ADEA and Title VII.
Right-of-publicity and voice-cloning suits. ElevenLabs actor case, Scarlett Johansson v. OpenAI ("Sky" voice), and a growing wave of non-consensual-deepfake civil actions under new state laws.
The next frontier. Character.AI teen-suicide suit, Tesla FSD pedestrian cases, medical-AI misdiagnosis actions. Courts are wrestling with whether AI is "product" or "service."
UMG, Warner, Sony v. Suno and Udio. Most major labels have now settled with Udio; UMG and Sony continue against Suno. Landmark deals reshape licensing for music AI.
FTC, state AGs, and private class actions under UDAP statutes alleging deceptive AI marketing and unfair AI-generated pricing.