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How we can survive AI. Ben Sasse’s WSJ Op-Ed

Ben Sasse has Stage 4 metatastic cancer. Based on his initial 4-month prognosis, he should be already dead as he discussed recently. In today’s Wall Street Journal, he wrote an Op-Ed on “Habits for Humanity in the Age of AI.” The article is “adapted from his speech accepting the Manhattan Institute’s Alexander Hamilton Award on…
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Are university AI researchers now at risk of facing copyright suits for acquiring or using unlicensed materials, or models trained on them?

When I spoke at the NeurIPS conference a couple years ago, I prodded the audience full of AI researchers from universities to think about their roles in the ongoing debate over the acquisition and use of copyrighted materials to research, develop, and train AI models. I didn’t say it there but said it in my…
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Udio admits to using music from YouTube videos as training data

On April 29, 2026, Udio aka Uncharted Labs filed its Answer to Sony Music Entertainment’s First Amended Complaint. Noteworthy is Udio’s admission (long assumed) that it used the music files from YouTube videos to train its AI models: Although this admission received media attention, it was not surprising. Udio is filing its Answer now after…
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Anthropic asks Judge Martinez-Olguin to deem Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cognella lawsuits as related cases to Bartz v. Anthropic

Although Judge Martínez-Olguín expressed doubt of Anthropic’s earlier notice to seek a related case status between Carreyrou v. Anthropic and Bartz v. Anthopic, Anthropic has formally asked the Judge to consider related case status with two recently filed lawsuits Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Anthropic and Cognella, Inc. v. Anthropic. Presumably, because Judge Pitts…
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Stanford University sued for copyright infringement based on Stanford AI researchers’ compilation of unlicensed images in ImageNet dataset, one of the most important datasets in the history of AI research

In January 2023, with the release of AI generators, I predicted copyright lawsuits will be filed against AI companies. I was right. Within the same week, the 1st lawsuit against generative AI companies was filed. The first of many to come. Then, upon researching the origin of AI training, which started at universities, I predicted…
Read more: Stanford University sued for copyright infringement based on Stanford AI researchers’ compilation of unlicensed images in ImageNet dataset, one of the most important datasets in the history of AI research
Judge Engelmayer excuses Perplexity’s use of 24-point line spacing instead of double

This is the kind of formatting issue that lawyers lose sleep over. Reddit discovered that Perplexity’s brief for its motion to dismiss was filed in 24-point line spacing (which is common for legal briefs in jurisdictions requiring 28 lines per page) instead of double spacing (slightly wider) required by the court. Reddit explained this was…
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Judge Breyer agrees with Google and denies stay of its motion to dismiss in David L. Greene lawsuit

Judge Breyer just agreed with Google and denied the stay request on Google’s motion to dismiss of plaintiff David L. Greene, former host of NPR’s All Things Considered. Greene was hoping Judge Breyer would decide his motion to remand the state law case back to state court first. But Judge Breyer wants briefing on that…
Read more: Judge Breyer agrees with Google and denies stay of its motion to dismiss in David L. Greene lawsuit
Chicken Soup for the Soul refiles lawsuit v. Anthropic after dismissal for improper joinder. Total = 106 copyright suits v. AI

Chicken Soup for the Soul just refiled their complaint against Anthropic. This comes after Judge Chhabria dismissed their omnibus copyright lawsuit against 8 AI companies, while retaining the lawsuit v. Meta as a related case to Kadrey v. Meta. So far, Chicken Soup for the Soul has not re-filed against the 6 other AI companies…
Read more: Chicken Soup for the Soul refiles lawsuit v. Anthropic after dismissal for improper joinder. Total = 106 copyright suits v. AI
In Anders v. Stability AI, Chief Judge Reidinger denies Anders’ motion to alter judgment denying his claims but does not award attorneys’ fees to Stability

The Anders v. Stability AI lawsuit is coming to a close in the district court. Chief Judge Reidinger rejected the plaintiff Jerry Anders’ motion to alter the judgment as merely rearguing the same issues and disagreeing with the court’s interpretation of the license at issue in this case. The court held that the license Anders…
Read more: In Anders v. Stability AI, Chief Judge Reidinger denies Anders’ motion to alter judgment denying his claims but does not award attorneys’ fees to Stability
Are AI researchers at U.S. universities engaged in infringement by unlicensed acquisition and use of copyrighted works, or use of AI models trained on unlicensed works? We shall likely find out.

It was bound to happen. With over 100 copyright lawsuits against nearly every AI company in the United States, the very broad infringement claims would eventually sweep in the practices of AI researchers, including at U.S. universities, generally. In fact, use of copyrighted works in AI training and development started first in academic research by…
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Judge Tigar dismisses vicarious liability claim but allows all others by Nazemian v. NVIDIA

In the lawsuit filed by book authors Nazemian against NVIDIA, Judge Tigar is allowing all of the claims against NVIDIA to proceed except for the vicarious infringement claim. It’s not surprising, but the analysis of the contributory infringement claim deserves attention below. Excerpt: Court’s Analysis of post-Cox Contributory Infringement Claim Interesting is Judge Tigar’s analysis…
Read more: Judge Tigar dismisses vicarious liability claim but allows all others by Nazemian v. NVIDIA
Is Claude killing Anthropic’s copyrights?

I continue to be most surprised by how publicly Anthropic is boasting about how Claude Code is writing all lines of computer code at Anthropic. Here’s Claude Code head Boris Cherny recently stating: We use Claude for literally everything. There’s no more manually written code anywhere at the company [Anthropic]. All of the SQL is…
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OpenAI lawyer methodically dissects Elon Musk’s case via Greg Brockman testimony

OpenAI trial lawyer Sarah Eddy has been methodically dissecting Elon Musk’s claim of breach of charitable trust through the testimony of OpenAI President Greg Brockman. Brockman is the source of the most damaging evidence to OpenAI by contemporaneous diary notes he took during the relevant period. For example: But, during his testimony elicited by Eddy,…
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Meta asks Judge Chhabria to relate Cambronne (aka Carreyrou) v. Meta

Meta is seeking directly from Judge Chhabria the designation of Cambronne Inc. v. Meta as related to Kadrey v. Meta. Meta and Cambronne originally asked Judge Pitts to invite such consideration from Judge Chhabria, but Judge Pitts scratched out that idea in a joint stipulation of the parties. Unclear if that was simply as a…
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Mark Zuckerberg is sued for copyright infringement by Elsevier and book publishers. Total hits 105.

Elsevier and other book publishers have filed today a copyright suit against Mark Zuckerberg as well as Meta. The suit was filed in the Southern District of New York. The publishers allege copyright infringement in torrenting of datasets from shadow libraries, web scraping, training AI models, along with contributory infringement and removal of CMI in…
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AI Copyright Case Tracker

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Master List of Lawsuits v. AI

last updated Dec. 5, 2025.

Copyright Dilution Under Constitutional Scrutiny

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US Map of Copyright Lawsuits v. AI

last updated April 3, 2026. Current total = 100 suits in U.S.

World Map of Copyright Lawsuits v. AI

last updated April 5, 2026. Current total = 130 copyright suits = 100 in U.S. + 30 in rest of world.

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Last updated Mar. 31, 2026

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