Active
Direct copyright; Lanham Act false designation
Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory (consolidates Alter/Sancton; with Basbanes)
Vicarious; contributory; DMCA 1202(b)(1); 1201(a)(1)(A)
Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; Lanham Act
Direct copyright; vicarious; DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3); state law (consolidates Tremblay, Silverman, Chabon)
Direct copyright; contributory; DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3)
Partial Settlement
DMCA 1202(b)(1) (rejected on MTD)
DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3)
Direct copyright; Lanham Act
Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; Lanham Act (false designation, trademark)
Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3); Lanham Act (consolidates Daily News, CIR)
Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; Lanham Act
Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3); Lanham Act; state law
Direct copyright; contributory; DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3); 1201(A)(1) circumvention; trademark dilution; unjust enrichment
Publishers of nine regional newspapers, including The San Diego Union-Tribune LLC, allege that Microsoft and OpenAI systematically copied, stored, and used hundreds of thousands of their copyrighted news articles withou…
Plaintiffs allege OpenAI surreptitiously transcribed millions of YouTube users' videos without authorization, including plaintiff Petryazhna's copyrighted videos such as "A Bubble World," and used the transcriptions to…
Direct copyright; contributory; state law
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…
DMCA 1201(a) (consolidated with Businessing)
Direct copyright
Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory (stayed/consolidated with Authors Guild)
Direct copyright (related to In re OpenAI MDL)
DMCA 1201(a) (consolidated with Ace Cam)
Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; DMCA 1202(b)(1)
Direct copyright; vicarious; DMCA 1202(b)(1); CFAA; state law
Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; unjust enrichment
Direct copyright
Direct copyright; DMCA 1201(a)
Direct copyright; state law
Direct copyright; contributory; DMCA 1202(b)(1); trademark infringement/counterfeiting/dilution; state law
Direct copyright; DMCA 1201(a)
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