AI lawsuit status tracker

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; contributory; DMCA 1202(b)

Direct copyright; vicarious; DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3); state law (consolidates Tremblay, Silverman, Chabon)

Direct copyright; contributory; DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3)

Direct copyright; motion for leave 1201(a) claim

Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory

Direct copyright; inducement; DMCA 1202(a)/(b)(1); Lanham Act; state law

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

Penguin Random House sued OpenAI's European subsidiary, alleging that ChatGPT unlawfully 'memorised' and can reproduce text, images, and cover designs from Ingo Siegner's beloved German children's bo…

First major FCRA-based AI hiring case. Alleges Eightfold AI secretly compiled 'consumer reports' on over 1 billion workers, scoring job applicants 0–5 on 'likelihood of success' using LinkedIn profil…

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…

Plaintiffs allege defendants Kunlun Tech Co., Ltd. and Skywork AI Pte. Ltd. systematically copied, ingested, stored, and used plaintiffs' copyrighted sound recordings (registered and unregistered), m…

First AI copyright lawsuit in Italy. RTI (broadcaster) and Medusa Film (film producer) allege Perplexity AI massively and systematically acquired, copied, and stored their proprietary audiovisual and…

Hagens Berman filed a wrongful death suit alleging that on August 5, 2025, ChatGPT-4o repeatedly affirmed Stein-Erik Soelberg's delusions related to mental illness, deepening his psychosis over month…

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…

First Danish lawsuit by a rights organisation against an AI music company. KODA alleges Suno trained its AI model on Danish artists' copyrighted songs without permission or payment, and that Suno con…

Starbuck filed a separate Delaware defamation suit against Google alleging its Gemini and Gemma AI chatbots falsely stated he participated in January 6 and accused him of sexual assault, citing non-e…

Quebec visual artist Chloé Sabourin filed an application to commence class actions against both Meta and OpenAI on behalf of persons domiciled in Quebec who hold copyright in artistic works used with…

16-year-old Adam Raine died by suicide on April 11, 2025, after months of interactions with ChatGPT-4o which allegedly validated his suicidal ideation, provided detailed suicide instructions, and dis…

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,…

First major generative AI copyright case in Brazil. Folha de S.Paulo alleges OpenAI: (1) unlawfully scraped and used its copyrighted journalistic content — including paywall-protected articles — to t…

Conservative activist Robby Starbuck filed in Delaware Superior Court alleging Meta AI repeatedly and falsely stated he participated in the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, was charged with a misdemeano…

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 Consu…

DJV claims that standard contractual terms used between the newspaper and freelance journalists — requiring journalists to grant the paper rights to use their articles for AI training — are unfair co…

Shareholders allege BigBear.ai maintained deficient accounting review policies, incorrectly determined that its 2026 Convertible Notes' conversion option qualified for a derivative scope exception, a…

First major AI copyright case in France. Three French authors' and publishers' associations allege Meta used their members' copyright-protected literary and creative works without authorisation or co…

Quebec-based self-published novelist Anne Robillard filed an application in the Quebec Superior Court in March 2025 seeking authorisation to commence a class action on behalf of all persons domiciled…

India's major music labels allege OpenAI used their copyrighted sound recordings, musical compositions, and lyrics without authorisation to train its AI models. Sought to intervene in ANI v. OpenAI;…

FTC launched a formal inquiry into major tech companies' AI chatbots, focusing on what companies are doing to evaluate risks to children who use chatbots as companions. The inquiry was triggered by t…

The FIP, representing Indian and international book publishers, alleges OpenAI used copyrighted literary and academic works without authorisation to train ChatGPT. Filed as an intervention/impleadmen…

India's first AI copyright case. ANI (Indian wire news agency) alleges OpenAI: (1) used automated web crawlers to scrape its copyrighted news articles without authorisation to train ChatGPT; (2) repr…

FTC issued a sprawling civil investigative demand (CID) to Microsoft in late 2024, signed by then-Chair Lina Khan. Compels disclosure of AI training costs, data center capacity, licensing practices,…

Three enforcement actions filed simultaneously as part of the inaugural Operation AI Comply sweep. Defendants marketed AI-powered e-commerce automation tools promising consumers significant passive i…

Part of 'Operation AI Comply' sweep launched September 25, 2024. FTC alleged Rytr's AI writing service let subscribers generate unlimited fake consumer reviews and testimonials. A final consent order…

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 apar…

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 OpenAI surreptitiously transcribed millions of YouTube users' videos without authorization, including plaintiff Petryazhna's copyrighted videos such as "A Bubble World," and used th…

DOJ launched investigation into Nvidia's AI chip market dominance (~70–95% market share). In August 2024, DOJ issued informal questionnaires; by September 2024 it escalated to legally binding subpoen…

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…

Aerospace adjunct professor Jeffery Battle sued Microsoft after Bing's AI-assisted search generated a summary conflating his identity with Jeffrey Leon Battle, a convicted Taliban conspirator. On Oct…

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…

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+ qualif…

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…

Quebec photographer Tina Doan alleges Clearview AI (which operated in Canada 2019–mid-2020) committed widespread copyright and moral rights infringements by using web crawlers to collect, copy and st…

State law (removed on federal preemption)

Direct copyright (consolidates Dubus v. NVIDIA)

DMCA 1201(a) (consolidated with Businessing)

Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; Lanham Act

Direct copyright

Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3)

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 (multi-defendant)

Direct copyright

Direct copyright (8-defendant)

DMCA-related (related to Ted Entertainment v. Snap)

Direct copyright; vicarious; DMCA 1202(b)(1); CFAA; state law

Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory

Direct copyright; contributory infringement; DMCA 1202(b)

DMCA 1201(a); CA UCL

DMCA 1201(a)(1)(A)/(a)(2)

Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; unjust enrichment

Direct copyright (consolidated with Martinez-Conde and Alexander)

Direct copyright

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; DMCA 1201(a); Tennessee Consumer Protection Act

Direct copyright; DMCA 1201(a)

Direct copyright

Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; DMCA 1202(a)/(b); 1201(a)/(b); Lanham Act; BIPA; IRPA; UDTPA; ICFA; unjust enrichment

Direct copyright

Direct copyright; state law

DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3); 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)

Direct copyright; contributory; DMCA 1202(b)(1); trademark infringement/counterfeiting/dilution; state law

Direct copyright; DMCA 1201(a)

Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory

Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; DMCA 1202(a)/(b); 1201(a); BIPA; IRPA; UDTPA; unjust enrichment

Direct copyright; vicarious; contributory; DMCA 1202(a)/(b); 1201(a); BIPA; IRPA; UDTPA; unjust enrichment

Direct copyright (tentative settlement)

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 Sept…

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. Als…

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 Chara…

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 mul…

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 databas…

DMCA 1202(a)(2)/(b); 1201; state law (SETTLED)

DMCA 1202(b)(1)/(b)(3) on appeal; state law

On Appeal

Direct copyright; state law

Radio host Mark Walters sued OpenAI after ChatGPT fabricated a legal complaint falsely accusing him of embezzling from the Second Amendment Foundation. The case was remanded to Georgia state court. I…

Direct copyright; contributory infringement; DMCA 1202(a)(1)/(b)(1)/(b)(3); state law (consolidates Chabon, Farnsworth, Huckabee)

GEMA claims that AI music platform Suno infringed copyright by (1) generating music content that closely resembles GEMA member works, and (2) using GEMA works for AI model training without authorisat…

Direct copyright; DMCA 1202(a)/(b); Lanham Act; unfair comp.; trademark dilution

DMCA 1202(b)(1) (rejected on MTD)

African American man over 40 with disability sued alleging Workday's AI-powered applicant screening rejected him for 100+ jobs because of age, race, and disability. In July 2024 the court denied dism…

Hungarian news publisher Like Company alleged Google's Gemini (Bard) chatbot reproduced and communicated to the public substantial portions of its press articles without consent between June 2023 and…

A Munich local court held that AI-generated logos in this case did not meet the threshold for copyright protection because they lacked sufficient identifiable human creative influence. The court clar…

A Frankfurt court held that: (1) song lyrics initially created by a human and subsequently combined with AI-generated music remain eligible for copyright protection, provided the lyrics were created…

A German court held that the unlicensed use of an AI-generated voice that is strikingly similar to a real voice actor's voice in a commercial YouTube video infringes the actor's right of personality…

The Beijing Internet Court held that while copyright can exist in AI-generated images, the person asserting authorship must demonstrate they exerted creative effort in producing the AI-generated crea…

Described as the first Shanghai case involving alleged copyright infringement by AI large-model/LoRA-generated output. The defendant collected 20+ copyrighted character images from the Yuewen IP seri…

Danish court confirmed that BoligPortal's rental listing database was protected by database rights due to significant investment. BoligPortal's HTML-linked opt-out statement (restricting scraping) qu…

Canada's first and largest AI copyright case. A coalition of Canada's leading news publishers alleges OpenAI: (1) scraped and reproduced their copyrighted news content without licence or payment to t…

GEMA sued OpenAI for copyright infringement of song lyrics of nine well-known German songs (including 'Atemlos', 'Männer', 'Über den Wolken') used to train GPT-4 and GPT-4o. The court ruled on 11 Nov…

Shanghai Cultural Development discovered in early 2024 that the AI platform operated by Hangzhou Intelligent Technology allowed users to create, apply and share LoRA models to generate images substan…

Hungarian appeals court held that downloading and storing data in a search engine's index for the purpose of creating AI-generated snippets of press articles was permitted under the TDM exception (Ar…

Pictoright alleges Meta (operator of Facebook and Instagram) failed to obtain a collective licence for copyrighted images uploaded and used on its platforms, and failed to make 'best efforts' to nego…

Getty Images alleged that Stability AI's Stable Diffusion model infringed copyright, database rights, and trade marks by scraping and using millions of Getty watermarked images as training data witho…

Landmark Beijing Internet Court ruling recognising for the first time in China that an AI-generated image can be protected by copyright and that the human prompter can be the author. Li created an im…

A Czech court ruled that under Czech copyright law, only natural persons can be authors of copyright-protected works. An image generated by AI based on a common prompt does not qualify for copyright…

Photographer Kneschke sued LAION after the non-profit downloaded his photograph from a stock photo agency website in 2021 to create the LAION-5B open-source training dataset. The Hamburg Regional Cou…

Dutch media companies claimed HowardsHome's AI-generated article summaries infringed their copyright, press publisher's right, and database rights. Court ruled on 30 December 2024: (1) TDM exception…

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…

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…

Direct copyright; contributory; state law

Arizona AG Mayes sued RealPage and major landlords in Maricopa/Pima metro areas for conspiring to raise rents via RealPage's AI pricing algorithm. Allegations mirror the federal DOJ case: landlords s…

Australian Mayor Brian Hood threatened to become the first person globally to sue OpenAI for AI defamation after ChatGPT falsely identified him as a convicted criminal in the AWB foreign bribery scan…

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…

Direct copyright (dismissed on MTD due to license)

Direct copyright; state law (voluntarily dismissed)

Direct copyright; state law (voluntarily dismissed)

DMCA 1201(a) (voluntarily dismissed)

DMCA 1201(a) (voluntarily dismissed)