Author John Carreyrou’s lawsuit against the US AI industry started out small. But it may end up spawing 8 different lawsuits against 8 different U.S. AI companies.
Already Cambronne v. OpenAI has been severed and sent to the MDL Litigation.
And now Cambronne v. Meta has been severed, too.
Both were severed by joint stipulation of the parties. But, in the latter case, Judge Pitts, who presides over the original lawsuit Cambronne (aka Carreyrou) v. Anthropic scratched the parties’ suggestion to send a notice to Judge Chhabria to consider Cambronne v. Meta a case related to Kadrey v. Meta.
Whether Judge Pitts ultimately retains Cambronne v. Meta is uncertain. But it does raise the total number of copyright lawsuits against AI companies to 101.
The same law firm, Stris & Maher, represents plaintiffs in Cambronne v. Anthropic and ChickenSoup for the Soul v. Anthropic, both suing the same 8 U.S. AI companies.
So, if Judge Pitts agrees with Judge Chhabria’s decision to dismiss all the defendants but Meta in the ChickenSoup litigation, it’s possible these 2 cases spawn 16 separate lawsuits.
I’ve already counted Cambronne v. OpenAI and Cambronne v. Meta. That would leave a net of +14 new cases if separate cases have to be filed, bringing the total to 115 cases.
