Lawsuit tracker
AI training-data lawsuit tracker
A maintained database of the cases that price training data: who is suing whom, in which court, at what stage, and why each one matters to data buyers and owners. Every case file is verified against its cited sources at last update.
Weekly lawsuit news The litigation landscape, explained
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Active
News Corp v. Brave
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Oakland) · Filed 2026-07-21
As of July 22, 2026, just filed. News Corp’s copyright counterclaims landed July 21, 2026 in Brave’s pending declaratory-judgment case; no responsive pleading or schedule has been reported.
Sony v. Udio (second suit)
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York · Filed 2026-07-20
As of July 22, 2026, just filed. Udio has not responded and no schedule has been set.
Publishers v. Google (Gemini)
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, just filed. No response from Google is on the docket yet, and no schedule has been set.
Illinois Voiceprint BIPA Cases
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, the suits are weeks old; no defendant responses, consolidation orders or rulings have been publicly reported.
Reddit v. Perplexity
Jaeden Schafer · 3 min read
As of July 2026, Perplexity’s and SerpApi’s motions to dismiss the amended complaint are pending before Judge Engelmayer, with argument set for June 30, 2026.
Studios v. MiniMax
Jaeden Schafer · 3 min read
As of July 2026, active in C.D. Cal.; MiniMax has sought dismissal and the studios have opposed, with no ruling reported.
Britannica v. Perplexity
Jaeden Schafer · 3 min read
As of July 2026, Perplexity’s motion to dismiss the output-side direct infringement claim (filed March 17, 2026, alongside an amended complaint) awaits decision; the case is otherwise proceeding.
Authors v. Apple
Jaeden Schafer · 3 min read
As of July 2026, active. The consolidated author suits are before Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers; Apple has answered the consolidated complaint, denying wrongdoing and asserting fair use, and no fair-use ruling has issued.
Warner Bros. v. Midjourney
Jaeden Schafer · 3 min read
As of July 2026, active; consolidated into the Disney and Universal action against Midjourney in November 2025 and proceeding on a shared schedule.
Disney & Universal v. Midjourney
Jaeden Schafer · 3 min read
As of July 2026, active and in discovery in C.D. Cal.; consolidated with the Warner Bros. case in November 2025, with dispositive motions reportedly due in late 2026.
Reddit v. Anthropic
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, the case is back in San Francisco Superior Court after a March 30, 2026 federal remand order held Reddit’s claims are not preempted by the Copyright Act. No merits rulings yet.
Ziff Davis v. OpenAI
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, active inside the OpenAI MDL. Core copyright and CMI-removal claims survived dismissal in December 2025, and Ziff Davis joined the July 2026 sanctions motion against OpenAI.
Publishers v. Cohere
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, in discovery. Judge McMahon denied Cohere’s motion to dismiss in full in November 2025; Cohere answered in December 2025 and discovery disputes were already surfacing by February 2026.
GEMA v. Suno
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, judgment is scheduled for July 31, 2026, after the court moved the decision date from June 12 for administrative reasons; no ruling has issued.
Canadian News Media v. OpenAI
Jaeden Schafer · 3 min read
As of July 2026, active in Ontario. The court rejected OpenAI’s jurisdictional challenge in November 2025; the case remains at an early procedural stage with no ruling on the merits.
ANI v. OpenAI
Jaeden Schafer · 3 min read
As of July 2026, orders reserved. After 32 hearings ending March 27, 2026, Justice Amit Bansal reserved his ruling on ANI’s interim injunction application — expected to be India’s first substantive word on AI training and copyright.
Dow Jones v. Perplexity
Jaeden Schafer · 5 min read
As of July 2026, in active discovery after Perplexity lost its bid to dismiss or move the case to California. Fact discovery was scheduled to close July 20, 2026, with expert discovery running to October and a pretrial conference set for December 14, 2026.
CIR v. OpenAI
Jaeden Schafer · 3 min read
As of July 2026, active. CIR’s claims proceed in consolidated pretrial proceedings with the Times and Daily News cases inside the OpenAI MDL.
Labels v. Suno
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 22, 2026, active as to UMG and Sony; the labels’ motion to add 61,026 recordings remains pending, with Suno urging the court to follow the Udio court’s denial of a similar expansion, and a June 30, 2026 scheduling order reset dispositive motions to April 2027, so no fair-use ruling has issued.
Labels v. Udio
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 22, 2026, the original case is active as to Sony Music only, and after the court denied Sony’s bid to add more than 30,000 recordings, Sony filed a separate S.D.N.Y. suit against Udio on July 20, 2026 asserting 30,117 works; UMG settled in October 2025 and Warner in November 2025, both paired with licensing deals, and reporting puts any fair-use ruling into 2027.
Lehrman v. Lovo
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, active in the S.D.N.Y.; the July 2025 dismissal ruling kept the state-law voice, consumer-protection and contract claims alive, discovery ran into spring 2026, and no class-certification or dispositive ruling has been publicly reported.
Daily News v. OpenAI
Jaeden Schafer · 3 min read
As of July 2026, active. Consolidated with the Times case for pretrial purposes and moving through discovery inside the OpenAI MDL; no trial date.
Zhang v. Google
Jaeden Schafer · 3 min read
As of July 2026, active as part of the consolidated In re Google Generative AI Copyright Litigation; the case is in discovery, with Google’s April 2025 motion to dismiss taken under submission.
Nazemian v. NVIDIA
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, active. On May 5, 2026, Judge Jon Tigar denied most of NVIDIA’s motion to dismiss, letting direct and contributory infringement claims proceed; discovery into NVIDIA’s shadow-library datasets is under way.
NYT v. OpenAI
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, in discovery within the OpenAI MDL. No trial date is set and there is no ruling on the merits or on fair use. A plaintiffs’ sanctions motion against OpenAI, filed in July 2026, is pending.
Music Publishers v. Anthropic
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, both cases are active in the N.D. Cal.: fair use is being briefed on summary judgment in the original lyrics case, and the January 2026 follow-on suit seeking roughly $3 billion survived Anthropic’s stay motion in April 2026.
Authors Guild v. OpenAI
Jaeden Schafer · 3 min read
As of July 2026, active in the SDNY multidistrict litigation. Fact discovery closed in February 2026 and summary judgment briefing is scheduled to run into November 2026; no fair-use ruling yet.
Kadrey v. Meta
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, active. Meta holds a June 2025 summary judgment win on fair use for training, a distribution claim over Meta’s torrenting remains unresolved, and on July 8, 2026 Judge Chhabria declined to certify the fair-use ruling for interlocutory appeal.
Getty v. Stability (US)
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, active in N.D. Cal. before Judge Trina L. Thompson; most claims survived an April 2026 motion to dismiss, and no trial date has been reported.
Andersen v. Stability AI
Jaeden Schafer · 3 min read
As of July 2026, in discovery in N.D. Cal.; core copyright claims survived dismissal in August 2024, and no class certification ruling has been reported.
On appeal
GEMA v. OpenAI
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, GEMA holds the November 11, 2025 first-instance judgment; OpenAI has said it will appeal to the Munich Higher Regional Court, and no appellate decision has been reported.
Raw Story & AlterNet v. OpenAI
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, Raw Story and AlterNet’s case stands dismissed for lack of standing, with their appeal pending at the Second Circuit. The Intercept’s surviving DMCA claim against OpenAI is proceeding in discovery alongside the consolidated OpenAI cases.
Doe v. GitHub (Copilot)
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, the Ninth Circuit has heard argument (February 11, 2026) on whether DMCA §1202(b) requires identical copies; no decision yet. Contract claims over open-source licenses remain in the district court.
Thomson Reuters v. Ross
Jaeden Schafer · 4 min read
As of July 2026, the Third Circuit has heard oral argument (June 11, 2026) and its decision is pending. The February 2025 ruling rejecting ROSS’s fair-use defense stands in the meantime.