Partial Settlement
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Direct copyright (tentative settlement)
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…
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'…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EEOC's first AI-based discrimination suit. iTutorGroup programmed its tutor-application software to automatically reject female applicants aged 55+ and male applicants aged 60+, rejecting 200+ qualified U.S.-based appli…
Following a 2022 ProPublica investigation, 30+ tenant class actions were consolidated in Tennessee MDL, alleging RealPage facilitated landlord coordination of nonpublic lease data to raise rents. DOJ filed a statement o…
Multidistrict litigation consolidating 11 suits alleging Clearview scraped 50+ billion facial images from the internet and sold biometric identification access without consent, violating BIPA and multiple state privacy…
State-court action filed May 28, 2020 alleging Clearview captured Illinois residents' faceprints without consent. Settled May 2022 with Clearview permanently banned from selling its faceprint database to most private en…
DMCA 1202(a)(2)/(b); 1201; state law (SETTLED)
Frequently asked questions
What is the largest AI lawsuit settlement?
Bartz v. Anthropic settled for $1.5 billion — the largest copyright settlement in U.S. history. The settlement covers Anthropic's use of pirated book corpora to train Claude.
Are AI settlement terms public?
Some are, some are not. Bartz v. Anthropic disclosed the $1.5B figure publicly. Warner Music v. Udio settled with a strategic partnership; financial terms were kept confidential.
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