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Suno sued again. 5th copyright suit in U.S. and 7th total worldwide.

Similar to its copyright suit filed against NVIDIA, S.A. Jamendo sued Suno for copyright infringement in its alleged use of Jamendo’s open-source music dataset. This is the 5th copyright suit against Suno in the United States and 7th worldwide. EXCERPT: * * * DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT: Related Story
Read more: Suno sued again. 5th copyright suit in U.S. and 7th total worldwide.
Disney seeks to invalidate Hailuo AI’s Terms of Use in Disney’s Answer to Nanoble’s counterclaim that Disney violated Terms of Use

The chess match continues. Disney, Universal City Studios, and Warner Brothers filed their answer to the counterclaims raised by defendant Nanoble, provider of Hailuo AI generator. Nanoble’s Counterclaims v. Movie Studios Nanoble filed a counterclaim against the movie studios alleging that they violated the Terms of Use of Hailuo AI in generating the allegedly infringing…
Read more: Disney seeks to invalidate Hailuo AI’s Terms of Use in Disney’s Answer to Nanoble’s counterclaim that Disney violated Terms of Use
Anthropic works out agreement with U.S. gov’t to allow Mythos to 100 approved US companies. US gov’t now reviews frontier AI models. Is it mandatory?

The U.S. government and Anthropic hashed out an agreement to allow the launch of its most powerful model Mythos only to 100 pre-approved U.S. government agencies and companies. Anthropic’s Fable 5 is still shelved from public use. The Trump Administration’s voluntary collaborative review of powerful AI models appears to be expected by the U.S. government…
Read more: Anthropic works out agreement with U.S. gov’t to allow Mythos to 100 approved US companies. US gov’t now reviews frontier AI models. Is it mandatory?
Daily News plaintiffs follow New York Times’ strategy in seeking to drop contributory infringement claims v. OpenAI and trademark dilution claims as well

The legal claims are dropping like hot potatoes in In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation. The Daily News and other news plaintiffs are following the New York Times’ strategy in asking Judge Stein to allow them to abandon, with prejudice, their claims for contributory infringement against OpenAI, in light of the Supreme Court’s decision in…
Read more: Daily News plaintiffs follow New York Times’ strategy in seeking to drop contributory infringement claims v. OpenAI and trademark dilution claims as well
Kadrey asks for additional discovery re: newly discovered Meta employees who allegedly involved in torrenting or concealment

In a heavily redacted filing, book authors Kadrey are asking for additional discovery related to what they say are newly identified Meta employees who allegedly partook of the torrenting of copies of their works from shadow libraries or attempted to conceal it. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD KADREY’S MOTION
Read more: Kadrey asks for additional discovery re: newly discovered Meta employees who allegedly involved in torrenting or concealment
AOC introduces Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, companion to Bernie Sanders’ bill in Senate. Data centers biggest AI flashpoint today.

AI data centers are now the biggest AI flashpoint. Public officials who support new data centers do so at their own political peril. Tuesday’s primaries toppled three Republican politicians who voted to approve Mr. Wonderful Kevin O’Leary’s data center in Utah, including the Senate President Stuart Adams who had been in office since 2009 and…
Read more: AOC introduces Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act, companion to Bernie Sanders’ bill in Senate. Data centers biggest AI flashpoint today.
New York Times abandons contributory infringement claim v. OpenAI in light of Supreme Court’s Cox decision

After OpenAI filed a motion for judgment on the pleadings that the New York Times could not meet the intent standard for contributory infringement set forth by the Supreme Court in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment, we wrote: “OpenAI’s brief seems quite strong in its explanation of the Supreme Court’s decision in Cox.“ The New…
Read more: New York Times abandons contributory infringement claim v. OpenAI in light of Supreme Court’s Cox decision
Alcon Entertainment wants to depose Elon Musk over alleged infringement of Bladerunner 2049

Alcon Entertainment is asking Judge Wu to compel the deposition of Elon Musk in the lawsuit over his and Tesla’s alleged infringement of the movie Blade Runner 2049. Alcon Entertainment’s position excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE PARTIES’ POSITIONS
Read more: Alcon Entertainment wants to depose Elon Musk over alleged infringement of Bladerunner 2049
AI Data Center War topples Republican Senate President Stuart Adam, who voted to approve Mr. Wonderful Kevin O’Leary data center in Utah. Two Box Elder County commissioners who supported data center voted out too.

The people of Utah and Box Elder County have spoken. They defeated the Republican Utah Senate President Stuart Adams, who has been in office since 2008. Adams had supported the building of a new data center by Mr. Wonderful Kevin O’Leary’s company, O’Leary Digital. Stephanie Hollist, a lawyer, won the primary. Hollist opposed the data…
Read more: AI Data Center War topples Republican Senate President Stuart Adam, who voted to approve Mr. Wonderful Kevin O’Leary data center in Utah. Two Box Elder County commissioners who supported data center voted out too.
Platkin firm joins the AI copyright lawsuits in representing newspapers in Richner Communications v. Microsoft, OpenAI

Matthew J Platkin of Platkin LLP represents the 35 newspaper-publisher plaintiffs in the newly filed case, Richner Communications v. Microsoft, OpenAI, the 121st lawsuit against AI companies. From his firm bio: “From 2022 to 2026, Matt served as New Jersey’s 62nd Attorney General. In that role, he led national lawsuits that reshaped industries, defended our democracy,…
Read more: Platkin firm joins the AI copyright lawsuits in representing newspapers in Richner Communications v. Microsoft, OpenAI
Kadrey v. Meta parties submit case statement for remaining claims

The Kadrey v. Meta set of cases (see below) continues to hum along. The parties filed their joint case management statement ahead of the hearing before Judge Chhabria on July 1, 2026. There will likely be additional discovery, as discussed in the statement, but the schedule set for the Entrepreneur Media case remains unchanged and…
Read more: Kadrey v. Meta parties submit case statement for remaining claims
35 Local & Regional Newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement. 26th suit v. OpenAI and 11th v. Microsoft.

35 local and regional newspaper publishers just sued OpenAI and Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement in the training of their AI models with content of plaintiffs scraped from the web. The Complaint alleges: (1) direct infringement, (2) vicarious infringement, and (3) DMCA CMI removal. Most likely, this lawsuit will be stayed pending the resolution of…
Read more: 35 Local & Regional Newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement. 26th suit v. OpenAI and 11th v. Microsoft.
New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien exudes confidence in copyright suit v. OpenAI

New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Leviet exuded confidence in the New York Times’ copyright suit against OpenAI. Should OpenAI be nervous? Take a listen:
Read more: New York Times CEO Meredith Kopit Levien exudes confidence in copyright suit v. OpenAI
Judge Anderson assigned Das v. Meta copyright suit in South Carolina

The just filed copyright lawsuit Das v. Meta has been assigned to Judge Joseph Anderson in the District of South Carolina, Columbia Division. Here is the docket.
Read more: Judge Anderson assigned Das v. Meta copyright suit in South Carolina
Nobel laureate economist Robert Shiller: stop “doommaxxing” fears AI will cause unemployment

Emeritus economics professor at Yale University and Nobel laureate Robert Shiller wrote a fascinating and somewhat contrarian Op-Ed in the New York Times. Shiller focuses on what he calls narrative economics (a branch of behavioral economics) and how people are swayed by narratives (instead of rational economic decision making). Shiller warns all the fear mongering…
Read more: Nobel laureate economist Robert Shiller: stop “doommaxxing” fears AI will cause unemployment

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last updated Dec. 5, 2025.

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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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