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Google hit with 2d AI copyright suit in 2 days. Publishers sue Google for the 1st time for alleged infringement in its AI model Gemini

The AI Copyright Wars are escalating. Google was just hit with its 2d copyright lawsuit in 2 days. Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, the book author Scott Turow, and S.C.R.I.B.E filed a class action copyright suit in the Southern District of New York. It’s similar to the suit they filed against Meta and Mark…
Read more: Google hit with 2d AI copyright suit in 2 days. Publishers sue Google for the 1st time for alleged infringement in its AI model Gemini
Apple goes to war v. OpenAI. Alleges trade secret theft.

Once partners, Apple has now sued OpenAI and ex-Apple employees Chang Liu (OpenAI’s staff) and Tang Yew Tan (OpenAI’s chief product officer) who went to work for OpenAI and allegedly misappropriated Apple’s trade secrets. Apple’s complaint was filed in the Northern District of California. Excerpt: COMPLAINT:
Read more: Apple goes to war v. OpenAI. Alleges trade secret theft.
Google sued again in AI copyright lawsuit by EVOX Productions for alleged use of images to train Nano Banana model. Total AI suits = 127

After suing Stanford University for creating the famous ImageNet datasets that allegedly include EVOX Productions’ car photographs, EVOX continues filing more lawsuits. First it was Stanford. Then it was Hugging Face, Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art. Now it’s Google. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT:
Read more: Google sued again in AI copyright lawsuit by EVOX Productions for alleged use of images to train Nano Banana model. Total AI suits = 127
Judge Pitts relates Shakespeare v. Anthropic to Cambronne v. Anthropic. Judge to preside over all book author suits v. Anthropic, post-Bartz

As we predicted, Judge Pitts has deemed the Shakespeare v. Anthropic suit a related case to Cambronne v. Anthropic in the Northern District of California. The music cases (Concord Music I and II, and BMG) are before Judge Lee. The book cases before Judge Pitts are: Judge Pitts’ Order: Related Story:
Read more: Judge Pitts relates Shakespeare v. Anthropic to Cambronne v. Anthropic. Judge to preside over all book author suits v. Anthropic, post-Bartz
Judge Chhabria denies Kadrey book authors’ motion to seek an interlocutory appeal of downloading part of ruling in fair use decision

Judge Chhabria denied the request of the Kadrey book authors to certify for interlocutory appeal to the Ninth Circuit the judge’s ruling on the initial downloading of copies of books used to train Meta’s AI models. The order states: The motion for leave to file an interlocutory appeal is denied. To be sure, the issue…
Read more: Judge Chhabria denies Kadrey book authors’ motion to seek an interlocutory appeal of downloading part of ruling in fair use decision
Daniel Benjamin Gilbert, opted out of Bartz settlement, files 1st Amended Complaint v. Anthropic

Daniel Benjamin Gilbert, co-author of Hacking World of Warcraft, who opted out of the Bartz v. Anthopic class action settlement, filed his First Amended Complaint against Anthropic in the District of Massachusetts. This is copyright lawsuit No. 126. (Sorry this somehow escaped our attention previously.) Claim: DOWNLOAD COMPLAINT:
Read more: Daniel Benjamin Gilbert, opted out of Bartz settlement, files 1st Amended Complaint v. Anthropic
Judge Chhabria will issue ruling on interlocutory appeal request of Kadrey without a hearing

Judge Chhabria vacated the July 16 hearing on Kadrey’s motion to certify for interlocutory appeal his ruling on Meta’s downloading of copies of books, which the judge treated as for the purpose to train Meta’s AI models. The court order says: “The Court will issue a written ruling based on the motion and responsive briefs.”
Read more: Judge Chhabria will issue ruling on interlocutory appeal request of Kadrey without a hearing
Bytedance seeks to dismiss 1st amended complaint of Ted Entertainment, YouTube video creator

Bytedance has filed another motion to dismiss in the Ted Entertainment v. Bytedance case. The arguments are similar to the first such motion Bytedance filed to the original complaint. Excerpt:
Read more: Bytedance seeks to dismiss 1st amended complaint of Ted Entertainment, YouTube video creator
AI copyright cases hit 125 on 250th birthday of United States. New infographic.

On the 250th birthday of the United States of America, the copyright lawsuits filed against AI companies hit 125. A fitting number. This number shows, not only that the U.S. is the global epicenter of copyright litigation against AI companies, but also that the United States is the land of litigation. To commemorate this moment,…
Read more: AI copyright cases hit 125 on 250th birthday of United States. New infographic.
Copyright shareholder derivative suit plaintiff Anderson files notice to relate case to City of St. Clair Shores Police v. Microsoft

Plaintiff Anderson in the just filed Anderson v. Nadella in the Western District of Washington has already filed a notice that it is a related case to the another shareholder derivative suit related to Microsoft’s AI products, City of St Clair Shores Police and Fire Retirement System v. Microsoft Corporation et al, No. 2:26-cv-02071-SKV (“St.…
Read more: Copyright shareholder derivative suit plaintiff Anderson files notice to relate case to City of St. Clair Shores Police v. Microsoft
Mark Zuckerberg at Meta: agentic AI development not as fast

After Mark Zuckerberg went all-in on AI at Meta, the company has experience some setbacks. First, its LLaMa model flagged behind the state of the art models by competitors. Then, the company shifted from token maxxing to token rationing, according to the New York Times, due to the high costs of token maxxing. And now…
Read more: Mark Zuckerberg at Meta: agentic AI development not as fast
Hugging Face open-source AI platform dragged into AI Copyright Wars in suit by EVOX Productions v. Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art. Suits hit 125 v. AI cos. in U.S. on its 250th birthday

The AI Copyright Wars are escalating. EVOX Productions, which has already sued Stanford University for the creation of the ImageNet dataset, has now turned its litigation attention to Hugging Face, the open-source platform for AI developers. Hugging Face’s alleged infringement includes: “the ‘Stanford Cars’ dataset, contains 8,144 images of automobiles for public download, including 225…
Read more: Hugging Face open-source AI platform dragged into AI Copyright Wars in suit by EVOX Productions v. Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art. Suits hit 125 v. AI cos. in U.S. on its 250th birthday
JP Morgan has to pay advancement of legal fees incurred by Charlie Javice. Does ruling cast Nanoble’s indemnity claim v. Disney in a new light?

Charlie Javice, the then-29-year-old founder of the startup Frank later acquired by JP Morgan, has already been convicted of three counts of fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit fraud back in 2025. The fraud stemmed from inflated user numbers for the website service for student loan applications that were touted by her during…
Read more: JP Morgan has to pay advancement of legal fees incurred by Charlie Javice. Does ruling cast Nanoble’s indemnity claim v. Disney in a new light?
OpenAI discussing with Trump Administration giving 5% equity stake in OpenAI

It looks like we are one step closer to U.S. government owning an equity stake in OpenAI. Financial Times is reporting that OpenAI and the Trump Administration have discussed the idea of OpenAI donating a 5% equity stake to the U.S. government. This idea is tied to the establishment of an AI Sovereign Wealth Fund…
Read more: OpenAI discussing with Trump Administration giving 5% equity stake in OpenAI
Michael Sullivan and textbook authors sue Mark Zuckerberg, Meta for copyright infringement

Meta just get hit with its 16th AI copyright lawsuit. Mark Zuckerberg was named, too. Zuckerberg is named in three such lawsuits: Elsevier, Hobbs, and this one. Michael Sullivan and other textbook authors have alleged similar allegations of torrenting and training with their copyrighted works as alleged in other book author lawsuits, including Kadrey v.…
Read more: Michael Sullivan and textbook authors sue Mark Zuckerberg, Meta for copyright infringement

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last updated May 23, 2026. Current total = 113 suits in U.S.

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last updated April 5, 2026. Current total = 130 copyright suits = 100 in U.S. + 30 in rest of world. (When updated, the current total = 143 = 113 in U.S. + 30 in rest of the world.)

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