AI Copyright Litigation Tracker
Comprehensive tracking of copyright and related lawsuits filed against AI companies
Last Updated: October 19, 2025
Northern District of California
Bartz v. Anthropic
Judge: William Alsup
Content: Books
Filed: August 2024
Class action alleging unauthorized use of pirated e-books from LibGen and PiLiMi to train Claude. Judge ruled training with pirated materials constituted infringement.
Settlement: $1.5+ billion over 3 years ($300M each Oct 2 & approval, $450M Sept 2026, $450M Sept 2027)
Settlement reached August 26, 2025. Class certified July 2025 covering all U.S. copyright holders.
Kadrey v. Meta; Chabon v. Meta; Huckabee v. Meta; Farnsworth
Judge: Vince Chhabria
Content: Books
Filed: July 2023
Multiple authors including Michael Chabon, George R.R. Martin, and John Grisham alleging Meta used their copyrighted works to train LLaMA without authorization.
Key Plaintiffs: Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, Richard Kadrey, Mike Huckabee
In re OpenAI ChatGPT Litigation (Tremblay, Silverman, Chabon)
Judge: Araceli Martínez-Olguín
Content: Books
Filed: June 2023
Consolidated class action alleging OpenAI used copyrighted books scraped from Library Genesis and other piracy sites to train GPT models.
Key Plaintiffs: Paul Tremblay, Mona Awad, Michael Chabon, Sarah Silverman
Motion to dismiss pending. Fair use defense being contested.
Nazemian v. NVIDIA Corp.
Content: Books
Filed: 2024
Authors alleging NVIDIA used their copyrighted works to train NeMo language models without authorization.
Dubus v. NVIDIA Corp.
Judge: Tigar
Content: Books
In re Mosaic LLM (O'Nan; Makkai)
Judge: Breyer
Content: Books
Hendrix v. Apple; Martinez-Conde v. Apple
Judge: Gonzalez Rogers; Labson Freeman
Content: Books
Concord Music v. Anthropic
Judge: Lee
Content: Music
Doe 1 v. Github, Microsoft, OpenAI
Judge: Tigar
Content: Code
Appeal pending in 9th Circuit
Sarah Andersen v. Stability AI, Deviant Art, Midjourney, Runway AI
Judge: Orrick
Content: Art
In re Google Gen. AI Ltgn. (Zhang, Leovy)
Judge: Lee
Content: Social Media
Denial v. OpenAI
Judge: Chen
Content: Articles
Strike 3 Holdings v. Meta
Judge: Lee
Content: Video
Getty Images v. Stability AI
Judge: Thompson
Content: Images
Brave Software v. News Corp.
Judge: Breyer
Content: News
Voluntarily dismissed
Southern District of New York
In re: OpenAI Copyright Infringement Ltgn. (Authors Guild v. OpenAI, Alter, Basbanes)
Judge: Stein
Content: Books
New York Times v. OpenAI; Daily News v. Microsoft
Content: News
Filed: December 2024
Major media organizations alleging OpenAI and Microsoft used millions of NYT articles to train AI models. Case alleges direct competition with news content and seeks damages in billions.
Plaintiffs: New York Times Company, NY Daily News
Key battle over fair use in training vs. direct competition. Millions of articles allegedly copied.
Center for Inv. Rep. v OpenAI
Content: Magazine
Raw Story v. OpenAI
Content: Articles
Appeal pending in 2nd Circuit
Intercept v. OpenAI
Content: Articles
Millette v. OpenAI
Content: Articles
Denial v. OpenAI
Content: Articles
Ziff Davis v. OpenAI
Content: Articles
Bird v. Microsoft
Judge: Stein
Content: Books
Huckabee v. Bloomberg
Judge: Garnett
Content: Books
Dow Jones v. Perplexity AI
Judge: Polk Failla
Content: News
Encyclo. Brit. v. Perplexity AI; Rochon
Content: Encyclopedia
Advance Loc. Media v. Cohere
Judge: McMahon
Content: News
UMG Recordings v. Unch. Labs
Judge: Hellerstein
Content: Music
Justice v. Uncharted Labs
Judge: Garnett
Content: Music
Lehrman v. Lovo
Judge: Oetken
Content: Code
Central District of California
Alcon Ent. V. Tesla
Judge: Wu
Content: Art
Disney v. Midjourney
Judge: Kronstadt
Content: Cartoon/Character
Warner Bros. v. Midjourney
Content: Cartoon/Character
Disney v. MiniMax
Judge: Blumenfeld Jr.
Content: Cartoon/Character
Millette v. OpenAI
Content: Articles
Millette v. Google
Content: Articles
Voluntarily dismissed
Millette v. NVIDIA
Judge: Davila
Content: Articles
Voluntarily dismissed - Transferred to Delaware
Delaware
Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Int.
Judge: Bibas
Content: Books
Appeal pending in 3rd Circuit
Vacker v. Eleven Labs
Judge: Andrews
Content: Code
Ziff Davis v. OpenAI
Chief Judge: Connolly
Content: Articles
Transferred to SDNY
Other Jurisdictions
Pierce v. Photobucket (District of Columbia)
Judge: Brimmer
Content: Photos
Woulard v. Unch. Labs (ND Illinois)
Judge: Ellis
Content: Music
Transferred to SDNY
UMG Recordings v. Suno (District of Massachusetts)
Judge: Saylor IV
Content: Music
Transferred to SDNY
Justice v. Suno (District of Massachusetts)
Judge: Saylor IV
Content: Music
Transferred to SDNY