AI Copyright (et al) Litigation Scoreboard–sorted by complaint date

Here is my running tally of the lawsuits alleging that training LLMs or using them constitute copyright infringement or related torts. There are a handful of lawsuits that do not have claims based on copyright. I have included some references to key orders as well. This list may be incomplete or become outdated; I prepared it for my own research. Here is a list with a lot more detail that seems to be updated regularly.

Note this list does not cover litigation about the protectability of AI-generated works under copyright law–a different topic entirely!

  • Doe v. Github, November 3, 2022. Class action. Authors of software. (Does not include copyright infringement but includes DMCA claims.) May 11, 2023 order dismissing many of the plaintiffs’ claims. June 24, 2024 order dismissing DMCA claims with prejudice. This order also dismissed claims for unjust enrichment and punitive damages, leaving only contract claims. “[T]he Court declines to read in a requirement that a plaintiff must bring suit for copyright infringement in the event of a breach of condition.”
  • Sarah Andersen v. Stability AI, January 13, 2023. Class action. Authors of visual art. October 30, 2023 Order granting in part defendants’ motions to dismiss. August 12, 2024 Order granting in part and denying in part defendants’ motion to dismiss amended complain.
  • Getty Images (US), Inc. v. Stability AI Ltd, January 16, 2023. Case filed in UK, High Court of Justice in London (Chancery Division), No. IL-2023-000007. Primary copyright infringement claims dropped, June 28, 2025. Secondary claims of copyright infringement and trademark claims retained. Decision on November 4, 2025 in which Stability AI prevailed on the secondary copyright infringement claim. Getty obtained a limited victory on a trademark issue. RESOLUTION: The Court found limited trademark infringement under Sections 10(1) and 10(2) of the Trade Marks Act 1994 for a small number of examples involving certain versions of Stable Diffusion and certain access routes. Getty’s infringement claim under Section 10(3) of the TMA failed. Only three instances of infringement were established. Where the court ruled that Stability had infringed Getty’s trademarks, it found sufficient likelihood of confusion and association between the AI-created watermarked images and the original Getty images — because users might be led to believe that the model was trained on Getty images under a licensing agreement between the two companies.
  • Getty Images v. Stability AI, February 2, 2023. Regarding photographs.
  • Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, May 6, 2020. Regarding Westlaw headnotes.
  • Mark Walters v. OpenAI, June 5, 2023. (Defamation case by talk show host.)
  • P.M. v. OpenAI, June 28, 2023. Class action. Voluntarily dismissed by plaintiffs on Sept. 15, 2023.
  • Paul Tremblay v. OpenAI, June 28, 2023. Class action. See Silverman action below. Consolidated with other cases April 3, 2025.
  • Sarah Silverman v. OpenAI, July 7, 2023. Class action. The court ruled against four of the six counts in the lawsuit, February 12, 2024. Only the unfair competition state law claim remains. Consolidated with other cases April 3, 2025.
  • Richard Kadrey v. Meta, July 7, 2023. Class action. Authors of books, regarding ThePile database, and LLaMA. November 20, 2023 order dismissing most claims. “I understand your core theory. Your remaining theories of liability I don’t understand even a little bit.” June 25, 2025 order granting defendant’s motion for summary judgment on fair use.
  • J.L. v. Alphabet (Google), July 11, 2023. Class action. Privacy and copyright.
  • A.T. v. OpenAI, September 5, 2023. Class action. Regarding privacy.
  • Chabon v. OpenAI, September 8, 2023. Class action. Consolidated with other cases April 3, 2025.
  • Chabon v. Meta, September 12, 2023. Class action.
  • Authors Guild v. OpenAI, Sept. 19, 2023. Class action. Consolidated with other cases April 3, 2025.
  • Mike Huckabee v. Meta, Bloomberg, Microsoft, October 17, 2023. Class action. Regarding Eleuther, book dataset “The Pile.” Motion for dismissal on fair use filed by defendants March 22, 2024.
  • Concord Music Group, Inc. v. Anthropic, October 18, 2023. Regarding music and lyrics. Filed by many plaintiffs, but not a class action. Partial settlement of injunctive relief January 2, 2025. Order dismissing most claims (contributory infringement, vicarious infringement, and removal of CMI) with leave to amend, March 26, 2025. The court also declined to allow filing of supplemental authority in light of the February 2025 Thomson Reuters decision, saying, “it did not concern a generative AI model.”
  • Sancton v. OpenAI, filed November 21, 2023. Class action.
  • Alter v. OpenAI, C.A. No. 1:23−10211, November 21, 2023. Consolidated with other cases April 3, 2025.
  • New York Times v. Microsoft, OpenAI et al, December 27, 2023. Order granting dismissal of some but not all claims, April 4, 2025. Consolidated with other cases April 3, 2025.
  • Basbanes v. Microsoft, January 4, 2024. Consolidated with other cases April 3, 2025.
  • Intercept Media Inc. v. OpenAI, February 28, 2024. Dismissed November 8, 2024. US District Judge Colleen McMahon said, “Let us be clear about what is really at stake here. The alleged injury for which Plaintiffs truly seek redress is not the exclusion of CMI” but the “use of Plaintiffs’ articles to develop ChatGPT without compensation.”
  • Raw Story Media, Inc. v. OpenAI, February 28, 2024. Consolidated with other cases April 3, 2025.
  • Abdi Nazemian v. NVIDIA Corp., March 8, 2024.
  • O’Nan v. Databricks, Mosaic ML, March 8, 2024.
  • Zhang, Andersen, Larson and Fink, v. Google and Alphabet. April 26, 2024. Class action. Regarding text to image model Imagen AI.
  • Daily News v. Microsoft, C.A. No. 1:24−03285, April 30, 2024. Consolidated with other cases April 3, 2025.
  • UMG et al v. Udio, June 24, 2024. Music. BBL Drizzy.
  • UMG et al v. Suno, June 24, 2024. Music. Answer filed August 1, 2024. Amended complaint filed September 19, 2025.
  • Center for Investigative Reporting v. OpenAI, June 27, 2024. Copyright infringement and DMCA claims. Consolidated with other cases April 3, 2025.
  • Milette v. Nvidia, August 14, 2024. Class action (not copyright infringement).
  • Bartz et al v. Anthropic, August 19, 2024. Class action, copyright infringement. Order dismissing some claims based on fair use, June 23, 2025. Class action certified for works downloaded from pirate sites. Anthropic seeks interlocutory appeal to the Ninth Circuit for fair use regarding books downloaded from pirate sites. Motion filed to hold case in abeyance pending settlement.
  • Dow Jones and New York Post (NYP Holdings) v. Perplexity AI. October 21, 2024. Copyright infringement, False Designation of Origin.
  • Alcon Entertainment v. Tesla, Inc., October 21, 2024. Alcon is suing Elon Musk and Tesla for using AI generated content based on Alcon Entertainment’s movie Blade Runner 2049 for marketing at a Tesla Event.
  • Toronto Star et al v. OpenAI, November 28, 2024. Copyright infringement, circumvention of technological protection measures, breach of contract, unjust enrichment.
  • Advance Local Media LLC v. Cohere Inc., February 13, 2o25 (1:25-cv-01305), consolidated case, District Court, S.D. New York, direct and indirect copyright infringement, Order Denying Defendant’s Partial Motion to Dismiss, November 13, 2025.
  • Ziff Davis v. OpenAI. Case 1:25-cv-00501-UNA, April 24, 2025.
  • Reddit v. Anthropic. June 4, 2025. CA state court, Breach of Contract, Unjust Enrichment, Trespass to Chattels, Tortious Interferences, Unfair Competition. (Note: No copyright claims, filed in San Francisco Superior Court)
  • Disney v. Midjourney, June 11, 2025. C.D. CA, Copyright infringement, secondary infringement.
  • Yomiuri v. Perplexity, Tokyo District Court, August 7, 2025. Copyright infringement. (This is based on news articles and I have not yet found the complaint.)
  • Hendrix et al v. Apple, 3:25-cv-07558, N.D. CA, September 5, 2025. Copyright infringement. Class action.
  • Warner v. Midjourney, C.D. CA, No. 25-08376, Sept 4, 2025. Direct and secondary copyright infringement.
  • Martinez-Conde v. Apple, class action, N.D. CA, October 9, 2025. Copyright infringement.
  • Tanzer v. Salesforce, class action, N.D. CA, October 15, 2025. Copyright infringement.
  • Independent musicians’ class action lawsuits against Udio and Suno (October 15 and 16):
  • David Woulard v. Unchartered Labs, Inc. d/b/a/ Udio, class action, D. Illinois, October 15, 2025. Copyright infringement, DMCA, contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, Violation of Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, 740 ILCS 14/1, Violation of Illinois Right of Publicity Act (IRPA), 765 ILCS 1075/1, Violation of Illinois Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act (UDTPA), 815 ILCS 510/1, unjust enrichment. Music.
  • David Woulard v. Suno, Inc., class action, D. Illinois, October 15, 2025. Copyright infringement, DMCA, contributory and vicarious copyright infringement, Violation of Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act, 740 ILCS 14/1, Violation of Illinois Right of Publicity Act (IRPA), 765 ILCS 1075/1, Violation of Illinois Uniform Deceptive Trade Practices Act (UDTPA), 815 ILCS 510/1, unjust enrichment. Music.
  • Alexander v. Apple, N.D. CA, October 22, 2025, class action. Copyright infringement.
  • Reddit v. Serpapi, Oxylabs, Awmproxy, Perplexity, S.D. NY, October 22, 2025. DMCA, unjust enrichment, unfair competition, conspiracy. (Not copyright infringement.)
  • Lyon v. Adobe. N.D. CA, December 16, 2025, class action. Copyright infringement re “SlimPajama” data set and Adobe’s “SlimLM” research project.
  • Carryrou et al v. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, Perplexity et al, N.D. CA, December 23, 2025. Case 3:25-cv-10897. Not a class action, plaintiffs are six journalists. Copyright infringement.
  • Concord Music et al v. Anthropic, 5:26-cv-00880-SVK N.D. CA, January 28, 2026. A list of music publisher plaintiffs so long it runs off the end of the page. Includes “Copyright Infringement by Torrenting,” Contributory Infringement, Vicarious Infringement, and Removal of Copyright Management Information.
  • Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc & Merrian-Webster, Inc. v. Open AI, Inc., March 13, 2026. The companies are claiming OpenAI is violating their copyright and stealing their online revenue by using the complainants’ content in ChatGPT outputs.
  • Gracenote Media Services, LLC v. Open AI, Inc., Case 1:26-cv-01947, S.D. NY, March 10, 2026. Copyright infringement, unjust enrichment.
  • Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC v. Anthropic PBC, Case 5:26-cv-02333, March 17, 2026. N.D. CA. Copyright infringement. Other defendants include Google, Apple, and Nvidia.

Not Gen AI, But Notable

  • Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence, May 6th, 2020, US Delaware. Order dated February 11, 2025 granting Thomson Reuters’ motion in part. Interlocutory appeal granted. Note this is not a generative AI case, but the opinion may bear on generative AI cases.