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Bartz Class Counsel tout impressive 54% participation rate for works in class, way up from 12% in Oct. 2025. Less than 0.5% opted out.

Wow. The Bartz Class Counsel just filed their Motion for Final Approval of Settlement. The numbers are impressive. According to Class Counsel: These percentages are based on works in the class, not based on claimants. But the participation rate is very impressive. In fact, because one person could own copyrights to several works or more,…
Read more: Bartz Class Counsel tout impressive 54% participation rate for works in class, way up from 12% in Oct. 2025. Less than 0.5% opted out.
Trump’s Copyright Deal? White House backs both fair use in AI training and Congress’s consideration of facilitating negotiated collective licenses. But White House defers to courts’ resolution of fair use.

President Trump’s White House just issued a “National Policy Framework: Artificial Intelligence” for Congress to consider legislative actions related to various AI related issues. Part III deals with the copyright controversies related to AI. The White House tries to thread the needle by (1) stating its view that using copyrighted works to train AI models…
Read more: Trump’s Copyright Deal? White House backs both fair use in AI training and Congress’s consideration of facilitating negotiated collective licenses. But White House defers to courts’ resolution of fair use.
Hachette Book Group shelves “Shy Girl” horror novel after suspecting it is AI-generated

A horror story turned into a nightmare for Hachette Book Group. After rabid Internet sleuths surmised that a recent horror novel “Shy Girl” by Mia Ballard contained large portions that were AI-generated, Hachette reportedly did its own investigation and decided to pull the book from shelves in UK and online–and to nix the planned publication…
Read more: Hachette Book Group shelves “Shy Girl” horror novel after suspecting it is AI-generated
UK Government opts out of its opt out proposal for copyrighted works used to train AI. Authors’ coalition derails Government’s proposal. Back to the drawing board.

The UK government goes back to the drawing board after its proposal to allow AI developers to use copyrighted works for training AI models faced stiff opposition from a well-organized group of prominent artists and authors in the UK, including Dua Lipa, Elton John, and Paul McCartney. The UK government issued its report. It basically…
Read more: UK Government opts out of its opt out proposal for copyrighted works used to train AI. Authors’ coalition derails Government’s proposal. Back to the drawing board.
Cambronne seeks to keep intact omnibus copyright suit v. US AI industry, opposes motion to sever

Cambronne, the company owning book author John Carreyrou’s copyrights, filed an opposition to the defendants’ motion to sever the case into individual suits against each defendant. This omnibus copyright lawsuit is basically against the U.S. AI industry: Most of the defendants have moved to sever the case into individual ones. But Cambronne contends the omnibus lawsuit against…
Read more: Cambronne seeks to keep intact omnibus copyright suit v. US AI industry, opposes motion to sever
Elon Musk’s xAI sued again. New suit filed by Jane Doe teens for alleged CSAM & sexually explicit AI generated images of them.

A group of three Jane Doe teenagers, represented by lawyers from Lief Cabraser, filed a lawsuit in federal district court in San Jose. The Complaint alleges a host of federal and state claims related to xAI’s Grok’s alleged generation of images depicting the teenagers in child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The Complaint alleges that xAI…
Read more: Elon Musk’s xAI sued again. New suit filed by Jane Doe teens for alleged CSAM & sexually explicit AI generated images of them.
Musk v. Altman prepares for April 27 trial. Judge Gonzalez Rogers says it’s “unlikely that punitive damages will be available.” Also court will have an overflow room to watch the trial.

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers issued her Pretrial Order No. 1 in the much anticipated trial in Musk v. Altman. One of the most interesting revelations in the Order is that the judge said it is “unlikely that punitive damages will be available” in this case (a separate order will follow). But the Judge left open the…
Read more: Musk v. Altman prepares for April 27 trial. Judge Gonzalez Rogers says it’s “unlikely that punitive damages will be available.” Also court will have an overflow room to watch the trial.
Judge Breyer adopts Plaintiffs’ schedule in Salesforce Copyright Litigation. Summary judgment briefing won’t be completed until Mar. 24, 2028. Class certification briefing by Mar. 10, 2028

In In re Salesforce Copyright Infringement Litigation, Judge Breyer adopted the plaintiffs’ proposed schedule, which puts briefing on the plaintiffs’ motion for class certification first, followed by dispositive summary judgment motions. Briefing for both issues won’t be complete until March 2028! Here’s the approved schedule. DOWNLOAD THE CASE MANAGEMENT STATEMENT AND COURT’S ORDER
Read more: Judge Breyer adopts Plaintiffs’ schedule in Salesforce Copyright Litigation. Summary judgment briefing won’t be completed until Mar. 24, 2028. Class certification briefing by Mar. 10, 2028
OpenAI faces skeptical Second Circuit panel in Raw Story Media appeal of lack of Article III injury ruling

Today, the Second Circuit heard oral argument in Raw Story Media’s appeal of Judge Colleen McMahon’s ruling that the alleged removal of Raw Story Media’s copyright management information from its works did not show an Article III injury. On the panel were Judge Richard C. Wesley, Judge Dennis Jacobs, and Judge Eunice C. Lee. According…
Read more: OpenAI faces skeptical Second Circuit panel in Raw Story Media appeal of lack of Article III injury ruling
Ted Entertainment files 1st amended complaint v. NVIDIA

Ted Entertainment filed a First Amended Complaint against NVIDIA for its alleged copyright infringement in allegedly violating the DMCA by circumventing access controls to use Plaintiffs’ YouTube videos to train NVIDIA’s AI models. We performed a Track Changes version showing what was changed. Most of it looks like the access-control argument related to YouTube videos,…
Read more: Ted Entertainment files 1st amended complaint v. NVIDIA
Parties ask for 3 week extension in OpenAI MDL Litigation. Summary Judgment briefing completed by Nov. 6, 2026

The parties in the MLD Litigation involving OpenAI have asked Judge Stein to extend the current schedule by 3 weeks. That would move the completion of briefing on summary judgment from October 16 to November 6. One would expect a hearing on the motions. So it would make it less likely for any decision on…
Read more: Parties ask for 3 week extension in OpenAI MDL Litigation. Summary Judgment briefing completed by Nov. 6, 2026
Anthropic sued 2x in 1 day. Shadow Library Strategy strikes again. Total all copyright suits v. AI companies hits 93.

The Shadow Library Strategy is back. Two new copyright lawsuits were filed against Anthropic. The first, Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Anthropic, was filed by the same Stris & Maher law firm that already filed a similar lawsuit against the same defendants: Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, Perplexity, Apple, and NVIDIA. Docket is here.…
Read more: Anthropic sued 2x in 1 day. Shadow Library Strategy strikes again. Total all copyright suits v. AI companies hits 93.
Meta hit with more lawsuits over AI glasses and alleged privacy violation, fraud

Adding to its woes, Meta got hit with more lawsuits related to the controversy over its Meta AI Glasses. Swedish reporters Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten’s report on February 27, 2026 alleged that Meta’s subcontractors in Kenya were receiving video feeds from wearers of Meta Glasses, including in intimate moments. From the article, the workers told the…
Read more: Meta hit with more lawsuits over AI glasses and alleged privacy violation, fraud
10,000 authors publish empty book “Don’t Steal this Book” v. AI

A group of 10,000 writers joined a protest book titled “Don’t Steal this Book,” to protest AI. It was distributed at the London Book Fair last week. Will it become a bestseller? The controversy stems from revelations from the copyright lawsuits in the United States that most, if not all, of the early LLMs developed…
Read more: 10,000 authors publish empty book “Don’t Steal this Book” v. AI
Full video Jensen Huang keynote at 2026 GTC in Santa Clara

Here’s the keynote address of Jensen Huang to start Day 1 of GTC in Santa Clara.
Read more: Full video Jensen Huang keynote at 2026 GTC in Santa Clara

Copyright Dilution Under Constitutional Scrutiny

Fair Use and the Origin of AI Training

Master List of Lawsuits v. AI

last updated Dec. 5, 2025.

US Map of Copyright Lawsuits v. AI

last updated Mar. 5, 2026. Current total = 87 suits in U.S. (6 of which voluntarily dismissed).

World Map of Copyright Lawsuits v. AI

last updated Feb. 25, 2026. Current total = 112 copyright suits.

Infographic of AI companies sued

In need of updating TBA

Status of Copyright Lawsuits v. AI

The Shadow Library Strategy

Master Chart of Claims in Cases

Last updated Dec. 3, 2025

Tort Lawsuit Case Tracker

List of AI bills before Congress

Opinion: How courts should analyze authorship with AI

US Copyright Office registers copyright of AI-generated image

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