On April 26, 2024, the Joseph Saveri Law Firm filed yet another copyright lawsuit against AI companies, Zhang v. Google. If our tally is correct, this brings the Saveri Law Firm’s total number of AI lawsuits brought to 8 lawsuits, making it the law firm with–by far–the most AI copyright lawsuits in the United States.
The new lawsuit, filed in the Northern District of California, is brought on behalf of the visual artists Jingna Zhang, Sarah Andersen, Hope Larson, and Jessica Fink against Google and Alphabet for their text-to-image generator, Imagen.
The case has been assigned to Judge Edward J. Davila in San Jose.
This brings the total number of pending copyright lawsuits against AI to 21.
Exhibit B to Complaint: Visual Works of Plaintiffs’ Allegedly Used to Train Google’s AI generator from the LAION 400M dataset
A list of copyright lawsuits brought by the Joseph Saveri Law Firm and other plaintiffs’ firms:
| Law Firms | Number of (C) lawsuits listed by lead lawfirm | Name of copyright lawsuits | Jurisdiction |
| Joseph Saveri Law Firm; and Matthew Butterick | 8 | Doe 1 v. Github, Inc. | ND Cal. |
| Joseph Saveri Law Firm; and Matthew Butterick | 8 | Sarah Andersen v. Stability AI Ltd | ND Cal. |
| Joseph Saveri Law Firm; and Matthew Butterick | 8 | Paul Tremblay v. OpenAI, Inc. | ND Cal. |
| Joseph Saveri Law Firm; and Matthew Butterick | 8 | Richard Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc. | ND Cal. |
| Joseph Saveri Law Firm; and Matthew Butterick | 8 | Sarah Silverman v. OpenAI, Inc. | ND Cal. |
| Joseph Saveri Law Firm; Matthew Butterick; and Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLP | 8 | Stewart O’Nan v. Databricks, Inc., Mosaic ML | ND Cal. |
| Joseph Saveri Law Firm; Matthew Butterick; and Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLP | 8 | Abdi Nazemian v. NVIDIA Corp. | ND Cal. |
| Joseph Saveri Law Firm; Matthew Butterick; and Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLP | 8 | Zhang v. Google | ND Cal. |
| Ventura Hersey & Muller, LLP; and Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP | 2 | Chabon v. OpenAI | ND Cal. |
| Ventura Hersey & Muller, LLP; and Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP | 2 | Chabon v. Meta Platforms | ND Cal. |
| Susman Godfrey L.L.P. | 2 | Sancton v. OpenAI, Microsoft | SDNY |
| Susman Godfrey L.L.P.; and Rothwell, Figg, Ernst and Manbeck, P.C. | 2 | New York Times v. Microsoft, OpenAI | SDNY |
| Loevy + Loevy | 2 | Raw Story Media, Inc. v. OpenAI | SDNY |
| Loevy + Loevy | 2 | Intercept Media Inc. v. OpenAI, Microsoft | SDNY |
| Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP; and Kirkland & Ellis | 1 | Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH et al v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. | Delaware |
| Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor, LLP; and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP | 1 | Getty Images (US), Inc. v. Stability AI Ltd | Delaware |
| Clarkson Law Firm, P.C. | 1 | J.L. v. Alphabet Inc | ND Cal. |
| Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP; and Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP | 1 | Authors Guild v. Open AI | SDNY |
| DiCello Levitt LLP; RMP LLP; and Poynter Law Group | 1 | Huckabee v. Meta Platforms Inc.; Bloomberg | SDNY |
| Grant Herrmann Schwartz & Klinger LLP | 1 | Basbanes v. Microsoft, OpenAI | SDNY |
| Oppenheim + Zebrak LLP; Cowan Liebowitz & Latman PC; and Riley & Jacobson, PLC | 1 | Concord Music Group, Inc. et al v. Anthropic PBC | MD Tenn. |