AI Lawsuit Settlements

Resolved AI cases — settlement amounts where disclosed, terms, and what each settlement signals for the broader litigation landscape.

14 cases · verified against public dockets · updated weekly

UMG v. Udio
SDNY · Filed Jun 24, 2024
Settled

Partial Settlement

In re Clearview AI Privacy Litig.
N.D. Ill. · Filed Jan 8, 2021
Settled

Settled

Bartz v. Anthropic
NDCA · Filed Aug 19, 2024
Settled

Direct copyright (tentative settlement)

Matthew Sacks and Michael Kochin v. Anthropic PBC
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California · Filed 2025-12-22
Pending

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…

Juliana Peralta family v. Character Technologies et al. (Colorado wrongful death)
Federal court (Colorado district — exact court and docket not confirmed in sources reviewed) · Filed 2025-09-01
Settled

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 v. Clearview AI. (state consumer protection enforcement)
Vermont Superior Court (state court) · Filed 2025-04-25
Pending

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…

A.F. v. Character Technologies. et al. (J.F. and B.R.)
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas · Filed 2024-12-09
Settled

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…

Garcia v. Character Technologies. et al.
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Florida · Filed 2024-10-22
Settled

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 v. RealPage.
U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina · Filed 2024-08-23
Pending

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 v. iTutorGroup. et al.
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York · Filed 2022-05-05
active

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…

In re RealPage Rental Software Antitrust Litigation (MDL — Private Plaintiffs)
U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee (MDL) · Filed 2022-01-01
active

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…

In re Clearview AI., Consumer Privacy Litigation
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois · Filed 2021-01-22
Settled

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…

ACLU v. Clearview AI.
Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (State Court) · Filed 2020-05-28
Settled

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…

Vacker v. Eleven Labs
D. Del.
Settled

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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