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-Authors Guild v. OpenAI,"Authors Guild, David Baldacci, Mary Bly, Michael Connelly, Sylvia Day, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, Elin Hilderbrand, Christina Baker Kline, Maya Shanbhag Lang, Victor LaValle, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, Douglas Preston, Roxana Robinson, George Saunders, Scott Turow, Rachel Vail","OpenAI, Inc., OpenAI LP, OpenAI GP LLC, OpenAI OpCo LLC, OpenAI Global LLC, OpenAI Holdings LLC, OpenAI Startup Fund GP I LLC, OpenAI Startup Fund I LP, OpenAI Startup Fund Management LLC, Microsoft Corporation",September 2023,Active,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York","Class action alleging OpenAI used copyrighted fiction works from prominent authors to train GPT models without permission, claiming OpenAI downloaded books from ""shadow libraries"" and pirated sources. Later amended to include Microsoft.",https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67810584/authors-guild-v-openai-inc/
-The New York Times v. Microsoft,The New York Times Company,"Microsoft Corporation, OpenAI Inc., OpenAI LLC, OpenAI LP, OpenAI GP LLC, OpenAI OpCo LLC, OpenAI Global LLC, OAI Corporation LLC, OpenAI Holdings LLC",December 2023,Active,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York","Landmark lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft used millions of copyrighted articles to train ChatGPT without permission, seeking billions in damages for creating a ""market substitute"" for journalism. A New York judge has allowed core infringement claims to proceed, while dismissing some unfair-competition counts",https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/judge-explains-order-new-york-times-openai-copyright-case-2025-04-04/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
-Silverman v. OpenAI,"Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, Richard Kadrey","OpenAI, Inc., OpenAI LP, OpenAI OpCo LLC, OpenAI GP LLC, OpenAI Startup Fund GP I LLC, OpenAI Startup Fund I LP, OpenAI Startup Fund Management LLC",July 2023,Active,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","Comedian Sarah Silverman, along with authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, filed a class-action lawsuit in June 2023 against OpenAI (later amended to include Microsoft), alleging that GPT‑3.5/4 were trained on their copyrighted novels sourced from illegal “shadow libraries” without consent—triggering claims of direct copyright infringement, DMCA violations, unfair competition, negligence, and unjust enrichment  . In February 2024, the federal judge dismissed all claims except direct copyright infringement-related ones, which continue through discovery—now consolidated with similar cases in an MDL process.",https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/14/two-openai-book-lawsuits-partially-dismissed-by-california-court
-Getty Images v. Stability AI,"Getty Images (US), Inc. and Getty Images (UK) Limited","Stability AI Ltd., Stability AI, Inc.","February 2023 (US), January 2023 (UK)",Ruling,"Delaware Federal Court (US), High Court of Justice London (UK)","Getty Images sued UK‑based Stability AI in early 2023, accusing it of scraping over 12 million copyrighted images (with metadata and captions) from Getty’s website to train Stable Diffusion—alleging infringement of copyright, database rights, trademarks, and passing-off. The London High Court trial opened in June 2025; during closing arguments, Getty dropped its direct copyright claim, narrowing focus to trademark and related secondary copyright/database-right issues, and a ruling is expected later in 2025",https://apnews.com/article/getty-images-stability-ai-copyright-trial-stable-diffusion-7208c729fb10c1f133cb49da2065d72a
-Andersen v. Stability AI,"Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, Karla Ortiz, and 7 additional artists","Stability AI Ltd., Stability AI Inc., Midjourney Inc., DeviantArt Inc., Runway AI Inc.",January 2023,Active,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","First class-action lawsuit by visual artists against AI image generators, alleging use of LAION-5B dataset containing 5 billion scraped images without permission. Active - survived motions to dismiss, trial set for September 2026",https://jipel.law.nyu.edu/andersen-v-stability-ai-the-landmark-case-unpacking-the-copyright-risks-of-ai-image-generators/
-Kadrey v. Meta,"Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and 10 other authors",Meta Platforms Inc.,July 2023,Dismissed,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","A federal judge granted summary judgment on June 25, 2025, finding that Meta’s use of 13 authors’ copyrighted works—including Sarah Silverman and Richard Kadrey—via shadow libraries like LibGen to train its LLaMA models qualifies as fair use under current U.S. copyright law. Judge Chhabria ruled that the plaintiffs failed to prove market harm—the critical factor in the fair‑use analysis—despite conceding that the copying was transformative, and he emphasized that this ruling rests on the incomplete record, not on a determination that such copying is inherently lawful.",https://www.wired.com/story/meta-scores-victory-ai-copyright-case/
-Doe v. GitHub/Microsoft/OpenAI,Anonymous programmers (Doe 1-5),"GitHub Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenAI Inc.",November 2022,Active,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","In November 2022, a group of anonymous software developers filed a putative class-action lawsuit in Northern District of California against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI, asserting that GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex were trained using code from public GitHub repositories in violation of open-source license terms (e.g., MIT, GPL, Apache) and GitHub’s Terms of Service, and that they infringed copyright and removed required attribution or licensing notices—breaching the DMCA §1202(b). In June 2023, Judge Tigar dismissed key claims, including DMCA and copyright infringement, for lack of evidence of verbatim copying and failure to show the removal of copyright-management information. The case now proceeds on two surviving counts—breach of open-source licenses and related contract claims—and includes an interlocutory appeal to the Ninth Circuit regarding the standard for DMCA violations, which could establish precedent for future AI copyright litigation",https://www.saverilawfirm.com/our-cases/github-copilot-intellectual-property-litigation
-Concord Music Group v. Anthropic,"Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group, ABKCO Music",Anthropic PBC,October 2023,Ruling,"U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee","Music publishers allege Claude reproduces copyrighted song lyrics on command, only case with pending preliminary injunction motion. Mixed ruling - AI training found fair use, but piracy claims proceed to trial December 2025",https://www.bakerlaw.com/concord-music-group-inc-v-anthropic-pbc/
-UMG v. Suno,"Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Records",Suno Inc.,June 2024,Active,"U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts","Record labels sue music AI company for copyright infringement, alleging training on copyrighted recordings without permission. Ongoing - Suno responded claiming fair use",https://apnews.com/article/ai-music-generators-sued-suno-udio-riaa-37a398d326ebb53105538f0d1088233e
+Authors Guild v. OpenAI,"Authors Guild, David Baldacci, Mary Bly, Michael Connelly, Sylvia Day, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, Elin Hilderbrand, Christina Baker Kline, Maya Shanbhag Lang, Victor LaValle, George R.R. Martin, Jodi Picoult, Douglas Preston, Roxana Robinson, George Saunders, Scott Turow, Rachel Vail",OpenAI & Microsoft,September 2023,Active,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York","Class action alleging OpenAI used copyrighted fiction works from prominent authors to train GPT models without permission, claiming OpenAI downloaded books from ""shadow libraries"" and pirated sources. Later amended to include Microsoft.",https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/67810584/authors-guild-v-openai-inc/
+The New York Times v. Microsoft,The New York Times Company,OpenAI & Microsoft,December 2023,Active,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York","Landmark lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft used millions of copyrighted articles to train ChatGPT without permission, seeking billions in damages for creating a ""market substitute"" for journalism. A New York judge has allowed core infringement claims to proceed, while dismissing some unfair-competition counts",https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/judge-explains-order-new-york-times-openai-copyright-case-2025-04-04/?utm_source=chatgpt.com
+Silverman v. OpenAI,"Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, Richard Kadrey",OpenAI,July 2023,Active,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","Comedian Sarah Silverman, along with authors Christopher Golden and Richard Kadrey, filed a class-action lawsuit in June 2023 against OpenAI (later amended to include Microsoft), alleging that GPT‑3.5/4 were trained on their copyrighted novels sourced from illegal “shadow libraries” without consent—triggering claims of direct copyright infringement, DMCA violations, unfair competition, negligence, and unjust enrichment  . In February 2024, the federal judge dismissed all claims except direct copyright infringement-related ones, which continue through discovery—now consolidated with similar cases in an MDL process.",https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/14/two-openai-book-lawsuits-partially-dismissed-by-california-court
+Getty Images v. Stability AI,Getty Images,Stability AI,"February 2023 (US), January 2023 (UK)",Ruling,"Delaware Federal Court (US), High Court of Justice London (UK)","Getty Images sued UK‑based Stability AI in early 2023, accusing it of scraping over 12 million copyrighted images (with metadata and captions) from Getty’s website to train Stable Diffusion—alleging infringement of copyright, database rights, trademarks, and passing-off. The London High Court trial opened in June 2025; during closing arguments, Getty dropped its direct copyright claim, narrowing focus to trademark and related secondary copyright/database-right issues, and a ruling is expected later in 2025",https://apnews.com/article/getty-images-stability-ai-copyright-trial-stable-diffusion-7208c729fb10c1f133cb49da2065d72a
+Andersen v. Stability AI,"Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, Karla Ortiz, and 7 additional artists","Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, Runway AI",January 2023,Active,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","First class-action lawsuit by visual artists against AI image generators, alleging use of LAION-5B dataset containing 5 billion scraped images without permission. Active - survived motions to dismiss, trial set for September 2026",https://jipel.law.nyu.edu/andersen-v-stability-ai-the-landmark-case-unpacking-the-copyright-risks-of-ai-image-generators/
+Kadrey v. Meta,"Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and 10 other authors",Meta,July 2023,Dismissed,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","A federal judge granted summary judgment on June 25, 2025, finding that Meta’s use of 13 authors’ copyrighted works—including Sarah Silverman and Richard Kadrey—via shadow libraries like LibGen to train its LLaMA models qualifies as fair use under current U.S. copyright law. Judge Chhabria ruled that the plaintiffs failed to prove market harm—the critical factor in the fair‑use analysis—despite conceding that the copying was transformative, and he emphasized that this ruling rests on the incomplete record, not on a determination that such copying is inherently lawful.",https://www.wired.com/story/meta-scores-victory-ai-copyright-case/
+Doe v. GitHub/Microsoft/OpenAI,Anonymous programmers (Doe 1-5),"GitHub, Microsoft, OpenAI",November 2022,Active,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","In November 2022, a group of anonymous software developers filed a putative class-action lawsuit in Northern District of California against GitHub, Microsoft, and OpenAI, asserting that GitHub Copilot and OpenAI Codex were trained using code from public GitHub repositories in violation of open-source license terms (e.g., MIT, GPL, Apache) and GitHub’s Terms of Service, and that they infringed copyright and removed required attribution or licensing notices—breaching the DMCA §1202(b). In June 2023, Judge Tigar dismissed key claims, including DMCA and copyright infringement, for lack of evidence of verbatim copying and failure to show the removal of copyright-management information. The case now proceeds on two surviving counts—breach of open-source licenses and related contract claims—and includes an interlocutory appeal to the Ninth Circuit regarding the standard for DMCA violations, which could establish precedent for future AI copyright litigation",https://www.saverilawfirm.com/our-cases/github-copilot-intellectual-property-litigation
+Concord Music Group v. Anthropic,"Universal Music Group, Concord Music Group, ABKCO Music",Anthropic,October 2023,Ruling,"U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee","Music publishers allege Claude reproduces copyrighted song lyrics on command, only case with pending preliminary injunction motion. Mixed ruling - AI training found fair use, but piracy claims proceed to trial December 2025",https://www.bakerlaw.com/concord-music-group-inc-v-anthropic-pbc/
+UMG v. Suno,"Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Records",Suno,June 2024,Active,"U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts","Record labels sue music AI company for copyright infringement, alleging training on copyrighted recordings without permission. Ongoing - Suno responded claiming fair use",https://apnews.com/article/ai-music-generators-sued-suno-udio-riaa-37a398d326ebb53105538f0d1088233e
 UMG v. Uncharted Labs (Udio),"Sony Music, Universal Music, Warner Records",Uncharted Labs (Udio),June 2024,Active,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York",Record labels sue music AI company Udio for copyright infringement for training music generation AI on copyrighted content. Ongoing - Udio responded claiming fair use,https://apnews.com/article/ai-music-generators-sued-suno-udio-riaa-37a398d326ebb53105538f0d1088233e
 Disney/Universal v. Midjourney,"Disney Enterprises, Marvel Characters, Lucasfilm, Universal City Studios, DreamWorks Animation, 20th Century Fox","Midjourney, Inc.",January 2025,Active,"U.S. District Court, Central District of California","First major Hollywood studio lawsuit against AI company, alleging Midjourney generates unauthorized copies of copyrighted characters. Active (recently filed)",https://www.wired.com/story/disney-universal-sue-midjourney/
-Daily News v. Microsoft,"New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register, Twin Cities Pioneer Press, Denver Post","Microsoft Corporation, OpenAI Inc.",April 2024,Active,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York","Filed February 2024 by the New York Daily News and other Tribune-owned papers, this suit mirrors the NYT case—alleging direct, vicarious, and contributory infringement, DMCA, unfair competition, and trademark dilution by Microsoft/OpenAI’s use of news articles for training. The parties are now briefing OpenAI’s consolidation request with the New York Times case.",https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-newspapers-sue-openai-copyright-infringement-over-ai-training-2024-04-30/
+Daily News v. Microsoft,"New York Daily News, Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, San Jose Mercury News, Orange County Register, Twin Cities Pioneer Press, Denver Post","OpenAI, Microsoft",April 2024,Active,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York","Filed February 2024 by the New York Daily News and other Tribune-owned papers, this suit mirrors the NYT case—alleging direct, vicarious, and contributory infringement, DMCA, unfair competition, and trademark dilution by Microsoft/OpenAI’s use of news articles for training. The parties are now briefing OpenAI’s consolidation request with the New York Times case.",https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-newspapers-sue-openai-copyright-infringement-over-ai-training-2024-04-30/
 Center for Investigative Reporting v. OpenAI,Center for Investigative Reporting (publisher of Mother Jones and Reveal),"OpenAI, Microsoft",June 2024,Active,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York","Nonprofit journalism organization sued for copyright infringement and DMCA violations for unauthorized use of investigative reporting. Ongoing, consolidated with NYT case",https://apnews.com/article/ai-media-lawsuits-center-for-investigative-reporting-chatgpt-mother-jones-c48452889750479410b65a119537746c
-J.L. v. Alphabet,"Eight individuals (identified by initials), including bestselling author ""J.L.""","Alphabet Inc., Google LLC",July 2023,Dismissed,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","Class action alleging Google misused personal information and copyrighted material to train Bard and other AI systems, seeking $5+ billion damages. Dismissed June 2024, plaintiffs allowed to refile",https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/google-defeats-class-action-over-ai-training-data-now-2024-06-06/
-Bartz v. Anthropic,"Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, Kirk Wallace Johnson",Anthropic PBC,August 2024,Ruling,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","Authors sued Anthropic for copyright infringement; first ruling finding AI training is fair use while condemning piracy methods. Mixed ruling - AI training fair use, but piracy claims proceed to trial December 2025",https://www.npr.org/2025/06/25/nx-s1-5445242/federal-rules-in-ai-companys-favor-in-landmark-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-authors-bartz-graeber-wallace-johnson-anthropic
-Nazemian v. Nvidia,"Abdi Nazemian, Stewart O'Nan, Brian Keene",Nvidia Corp,March 2024,Active,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","Authors sued Nvidia for copyright infringement, alleging use of approximately 196,640 books to train NeMo platform without permission",https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-is-sued-by-authors-over-ai-use-copyrighted-works-2024-03-10/
-Raw Story Media v. OpenAI,"Raw Story Media, AlterNet","OpenAI Inc., Microsoft",February 2024,Dismissed,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York",Raw Story and AlterNet sued for DMCA violations; dismissed as plaintiffs lacked sufficient injury and focused on CMI removal rather than direct infringement.,https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-defeats-news-outlets-copyright-lawsuit-over-ai-training-now-2024-11-07/
+J.L. v. Alphabet,"Eight individuals (identified by initials), including bestselling author ""J.L.""",Alphabet (Google),July 2023,Dismissed,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","Class action alleging Google misused personal information and copyrighted material to train Bard and other AI systems, seeking $5+ billion damages. Dismissed June 2024, plaintiffs allowed to refile",https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/google-defeats-class-action-over-ai-training-data-now-2024-06-06/
+Bartz v. Anthropic,"Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, Kirk Wallace Johnson",Anthropic,August 2024,Ruling,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","Authors sued Anthropic for copyright infringement; first ruling finding AI training is fair use while condemning piracy methods. Mixed ruling - AI training fair use, but piracy claims proceed to trial December 2025",https://www.npr.org/2025/06/25/nx-s1-5445242/federal-rules-in-ai-companys-favor-in-landmark-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-authors-bartz-graeber-wallace-johnson-anthropic
+Nazemian v. Nvidia,"Abdi Nazemian, Stewart O'Nan, Brian Keene",Nvidia,March 2024,Active,"U.S. District Court, Northern District of California","Authors sued Nvidia for copyright infringement, alleging use of approximately 196,640 books to train NeMo platform without permission",https://www.reuters.com/technology/nvidia-is-sued-by-authors-over-ai-use-copyrighted-works-2024-03-10/
+Raw Story Media v. OpenAI,"Raw Story Media, AlterNet","OpenAI, Microsoft",February 2024,Dismissed,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York",Raw Story and AlterNet sued for DMCA violations; dismissed as plaintiffs lacked sufficient injury and focused on CMI removal rather than direct infringement.,https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/openai-defeats-news-outlets-copyright-lawsuit-over-ai-training-now-2024-11-07/
 Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence,Thomson Reuters (Westlaw owner),Ross Intelligence,2020,Ruling,"U.S. District Court, District of Delaware","Early landmark case alleging copyright infringement for using Westlaw legal headnotes to train a competing legal AI research tool—Thomson Reuters v. Ross Intelligence. In February 2025, the court granted partial summary judgment to Thomson Reuters, finding that Ross Intelligence infringed Westlaw’s copyrighted headnotes by incorporating them into its AI training, and held that this use did not qualify as fair use, primarily due to non-transformative copying and demonstrable harm to the market for Thomson Reuters’ legal research products.",https://www.wired.com/story/thomson-reuters-ai-copyright-lawsuit/
 Thaler v. Perlmutter,Dr. Stephen Thaler,"U.S. Copyright Office (Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights)",2023,Ruling,"U.S. Court of Appeals, DC Circuit",Foundational case establishing only humans can be copyright authors after Thaler sought copyright for AI-generated image with AI listed as sole author. Decided - human authorship required (affirmed on appeal March 2025),https://www.clearygottlieb.com/news-and-insights/publication-listing/thaler-v-perlmutter-further-confirms-human-authorship-required-for-copyright-protection
-Canadian Media Coalition v. OpenAI,"Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, Globe and Mail, Canadian Press",OpenAI Inc.,November 2024,Active,Ontario Superior Court of Justice,"Canada's largest news organizations allege OpenAI illegally scraped millions of articles to train ChatGPT, seeking C$20,000 per article in damages",https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/29/canada-openai-lawsuit-cbc-postmedia-copyright/
-Like Company v. Google,Like Company (Hungarian news publisher),Google Ireland Limited,April 2025 (referred to CJEU),Active,Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU Case C-250/25),Landmark EU case that will establish binding precedent across all EU member states for AI training and output liability. First AI copyright case referred to CJEU - decision expected late 2026,https://www.ddg.fr/actualite/first-ai-related-reference-to-the-cjeu-preliminary-questions-in-case-c-250-25-like-company-v-google-ireland
+Canadian Media Coalition v. OpenAI,"Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto Star, Metroland Media, Postmedia, Globe and Mail, Canadian Press",OpenAI,November 2024,Active,Ontario Superior Court of Justice,"Canada's largest news organizations allege OpenAI illegally scraped millions of articles to train ChatGPT, seeking C$20,000 per article in damages",https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/11/29/canada-openai-lawsuit-cbc-postmedia-copyright/
+Like Company v. Google,Like Company (Hungarian news publisher),Google,April 2025 (referred to CJEU),Active,Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU Case C-250/25),Landmark EU case that will establish binding precedent across all EU member states for AI training and output liability. First AI copyright case referred to CJEU - decision expected late 2026,https://www.ddg.fr/actualite/first-ai-related-reference-to-the-cjeu-preliminary-questions-in-case-c-250-25-like-company-v-google-ireland
 Li Yunkai v. Liu Yuanchun,Li Yunkai,Liu Yuanchun,2023,Ruling,"Beijing Internet Court, China","First court globally to grant copyright protection to AI-generated images, finding human creative input in prompts sufficient for protection. Decided - Plaintiff won (November 2023)",https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/02/02/beijing-internet-court-grants-copyright-to-ai-generated-image-for-the-first-time/
-Dow Jones & Company v. Perplexity,"Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch)","Perplexity AI, Inc., Aravind Srinivas (CEO)",June 2025,Active,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York","Dow Jones alleges Perplexity scraped millions of copyrighted news articles, including WSJ paywalled content, to train and power its AI search and answer tool without permission, constituting copyright infringement, DMCA violations, and unfair competition. Dow Jones seeks damages and injunctive relief, arguing Perplexity’s AI “free rides” on its journalism while misappropriating paywalled reporting.",https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/news-corp-dow-jones-ny-post-sue-perplexity-copyright-infringement-1236184900/
-Advance Local Media LLC v. Cohere,Advance Local Media LLC (publisher of local newspapers and news sites),"Cohere Inc., Aidan Gomez (CEO)",June 2025,Active,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York","Advance Local Media alleges Cohere used millions of copyrighted local news articles to train its Command R+ generative AI models without authorization, infringing copyright and violating DMCA protections. The lawsuit seeks damages and a permanent injunction, arguing that Cohere’s unlicensed AI training and generation misappropriate local journalism while creating direct market substitutes for reporting.",https://www.axios.com/2025/02/13/publishers-sue-cohere-ai-copyright
+Dow Jones & Company v. Perplexity,"Dow Jones & Company, Inc. (publisher of The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch)",Perplexity,June 2025,Active,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York","Dow Jones alleges Perplexity scraped millions of copyrighted news articles, including WSJ paywalled content, to train and power its AI search and answer tool without permission, constituting copyright infringement, DMCA violations, and unfair competition. Dow Jones seeks damages and injunctive relief, arguing Perplexity’s AI “free rides” on its journalism while misappropriating paywalled reporting.",https://variety.com/2024/biz/news/news-corp-dow-jones-ny-post-sue-perplexity-copyright-infringement-1236184900/
+Advance Local Media LLC v. Cohere,Advance Local Media LLC (publisher of local newspapers and news sites),Cohere,June 2025,Active,"U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York","Advance Local Media alleges Cohere used millions of copyrighted local news articles to train its Command R+ generative AI models without authorization, infringing copyright and violating DMCA protections. The lawsuit seeks damages and a permanent injunction, arguing that Cohere’s unlicensed AI training and generation misappropriate local journalism while creating direct market substitutes for reporting.",https://www.axios.com/2025/02/13/publishers-sue-cohere-ai-copyright