

The first newspaper suit v. OpenAI filed in the Southern District of Mississippi, Emmerich Newspapers v. Microsoft, has been conditionally transferred to the MDL litigation before Judge Stein. A second newspaper suit in the same district in Mississippi, Boone Newsmedia v. Microsoft, is still in that district.

Phil Rosen has voluntarily dismissed his just filed copyright shareholder suit v. Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, filed in the Northern District of Illinois. But Rosen says he plans on refiling in the Northern District of California. Unclear why it was filed in the Northern District of Illinois in the first place.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang and other officers and directors of NVIDIA filed a motion to dismiss the sharehold derivative that is advancing the novel theory of copyright risk as its basis. Excerpt: * * * DOWNLOAD
The AI industry is facing a new political environment with the election results, including the prevailing of initiatives opposing data centers. The post-election rally on the stock market soon turned into a full-blown correction, as $2.5 trillion in value evaporated like vaporware. WIth the Democrats recapturing Congress, expect greater legislative activity to regulate both data…

We updated the map with the 3 new suits against SpaceX Superintelligence: Cambronne, Chicken Soup, and Cognella. DOWNLOAD:

Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has finally joined the AI Copyright Wars. The plaintiffs’ firm Stris & Maher just filed 3 copyright suits against SpaceX Superintelligence for alleged infringement in developing models for xAI and SpaceX. Stris & Maher now assumes the lead in filing the most copyright suits against AI companies. Stris & Maher has…

Here’s the latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI Companies. New total = 161. We added the following 3 cases: DOWNLOAD THE MAP:
From the Press Release: Advocate General Szpunar: The EU Court [of Justice] should find that the retrieval and reuse, in real time, of online press publications by AI chatbots in order to generate answers to user queries may, in certain circumstances, infringe the rights of press publishers. This view will be considered by the EU…

ROSS Intelligence hired Yaira Dubin, Jeffrey B. Wall (former Acting Solicitor General of the United States), Morgan Ratner, and Nick Harper, all partners in Gibson Dunn’s Appellate and Constitutional Law practice, as well as associates Parisa Sadeghi and Isabel Alexiades, to lead the representation of ROSS in filing a petition for hearing en banc in…

Newspaper Plaintiffs have filed another lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. Boone Newsmedia v. Microsoft is the second copyright lawsuit filed against the companies in the Southern District of Mississippi—and by the same plaintiffs’ firms with the lead firm Barrett Law Group. The first lawsuit was Emmerich Newspapers v. Microsoft, now before Judge Wingate. By my…

Similar to recent decisions of other district judges, Judge Kaplan denied Runway AI’s motion to dismiss Ace Cam’s DMCA 1201 anti-circumvention claim related to YouTube videos and alleged bypassing of access controls. DOWNLOAD THE OPINION IN ACE CAM V. RUNWAY AI: RELATED STORIES OTHER SCENARIO:

We just hit a new milestone in the AI copyright litigation. Daily News and New York Times each just sued Brave Software to raise the total of suits to 160. Our projection of 175 suits by end of 2026 is looking on target. Brave Software is already involved in a similar suit in the N.D.…

Last week, 51 Amici (myself included) asked Judge Stein for leave to file amicus briefs related to the summary judgment motions filed by the parties in the OpenAI MDL. We compiled them on one convenient page, click below. These briefs are pending subject to the court’s approval. If you’d like to read the parties’ briefs,…

We updated our U.S. Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies with the new lawsuit Rosen v. Picahi, a copryight/BIPA shareholder derivative suit against Sundar Pichai and officers and directors of Alphabet. DOWNLOAD MAP WITH LINKS TO EACH DOCKET:
AI Copyright Case Tracker
AI Authorship Tracker
AI Tort Lawsuit Tracker
AI Data Center Lawsuits Tracker


last updated Oct. 8, 2026. Current total = 148 suits in U.S.

last updated Dec. 5, 2025.



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.)

In need of updating TBA



Last updated Mar. 31, 2026