Free tracker of all lawsuits on the topic of copyright infringement due to generative artificial intelligence (AI). This tracker includes case summaries and links to all filed legal materials.
| Case title | Date of first filing | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intercept Media v. OpenAI | Feb 28, 2024 | The Intercept Media alleged that OpenAI violated the DMCA by choosing to train ChatGPT with training datasets that included copies of their copyrighted works of journalism from which CMI had been removed.Copyright management information (CMI), defined by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), is information conveyed with a copyrighted work that identifies the owner and nature of that copyright. | Link |
| Raw Story Media v. OpenAI | Feb 28, 2024 | Raw Story Media and AlterNet Media alleged that OpenAI violated the DMCA by choosing to train ChatGPT with training datasets that included copies of their copyrighted works of journalism from which CMI had been removed.Copyright management information (CMI), defined by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), is information conveyed with a copyrighted work that identifies the owner and nature of that copyright. | Link |
| Main Sequence, Ltd. v. Dudesy | Jan 25, 2024 | The George Carlin estate has filed a lawsuit against the media company, Dudesy for an AI-generated video that was allegedly generated by a chatbot trained on Carlin’s copyrighted material. | Link |
| Basbanes v. Microsoft | Jan 5, 2024 | A pair of non-fiction authors alleged that OpenAI trained its models on their copyrighted material. | Link |
| New York Times v. Microsoft | Dec 27, 2023 | The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement, claiming that the AI tools divert Internet traffic that "would otherwise go to the Times’ web properties, depriving the company of advertising, licensing and subscription revenue, the suit said," according to The Wall Street Journal. | Link |
| Andersen v. Stability AI | Nov 29, 2023 | Visual artists allege that Stability AI, Midjourney and Runway AI used billions of copyrighted images and then generated derivative works of those images when prompted by its users. Besides, DeviantArt is accused of violating its terms of service and privacy policy by allowing Stability AI to train on the artworks hosted on its platform. | Link |
| Alter v. OpenAI | Nov 21, 2023 | Authors Guild and over a dozen high-profile authors alleged that OpenAI trained its models on their copyrighted material. | Link |
| Concord Music Group v. Anthropic | Oct 18, 2023 | Music publishers Universal Music, ABKCO and Concord sued Anthropic for allegedly using copyrighted song lyrics to train its chatbot, Claude. | Link |
| L. v. Alphabet | Jul 11, 2023 | Plaintiffs accused Google of privacy law violations, breach of contract and copyright infringement for using personal data and copyrighted content to train Google’s AI products (including Bard) and outputting derivatives of those works. | Link |
| Silverman v. OpenAI | Jul 7, 2023 | Comedian, Sarah Silverman and other authors alleged that OpenAI trained its models on their copyrighted material and generated summaries of their materials when prompted. | Link |
| Kadrey v. Meta | Jul 7, 2023 | Authors Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Christopher Golden alleged that Meta trained its models on their copyrighted material. | Link |
| Tremblay v. OpenAI | Jun 28, 2023 | Authors, Paul Tremblay and Mona Awad, alleged that OpenAI trained its models on their copyrighted material and generated summaries of their materials when prompted. | Link |
| Getty Images v. Stability AI | Feb 3, 2023 | Getty Images accused Stability AI of infringing more than 12 million photographs, their associated captions and metadata, in building and offering Stable Diffusion and DreamStudio. | Link |
| DOE 1 v. GitHub | Nov 3, 2022 | Anonymous plaintiffs sued GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI, alleging that defendants used plaintiffs' copyrighted open-source code to create Codex and Copilot and consequently, did not comply with the open-source licenses. (Codex is the OpenAI model that powers GitHub Copilot.) | Link |
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