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Google suffers another legal setback as Judge Breyer grants David Greene’s “voice likeness” case back to state court. Not preempted by Copyright Act.
Read more: Google suffers another legal setback as Judge Breyer grants David Greene’s “voice likeness” case back to state court. Not preempted by Copyright Act.Google suffered another legal setback. First, its case against SerpApi was dismissed. And now David Greene’s lawsuit against Google was just remanded back to state court. Judge Breyer held the claims were based on “voice likeness” outputs, and not inputs used to train Google’s AI models. Therefore, they were not preempted by the Copyright Act.…
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India Delhi High Court rejects injunction, ruling OpenAI likely did not infringe news agency ANI Media’s copyright. AI training is prima facie fair dealing under India copyright law. Court cites Bartz, Kadrey, Google Books decisions.
Read more: India Delhi High Court rejects injunction, ruling OpenAI likely did not infringe news agency ANI Media’s copyright. AI training is prima facie fair dealing under India copyright law. Court cites Bartz, Kadrey, Google Books decisions.The High Court of Delhi in India just published a major ruling holding that, on the motion for preliminary injunction, OpenAI did not infringe the copyright of news agency ANI Media. The High Court held it was prima facie fair dealing under India’s Section 52(1)(a) to use copyrighted works to train AI models. Plus, the…
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Citing Supreme Court’s decision in Cox, Midjourney asks for judgment on the pleadings that Disney’s contributory infringement claim fails as a matter of law
Read more: Citing Supreme Court’s decision in Cox, Midjourney asks for judgment on the pleadings that Disney’s contributory infringement claim fails as a matter of lawThe fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment continues. Following OpenAI’s successful strategy, Midjourney has asked the court for judgment on the pleadings and a ruling that Disney’s claim of contributory infringement fails as a matter of law. Judge Kronstadt presides. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD MIDJOURNEY’S MOTION: Related Story:
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News Corp. files copyright infringement counterclaims v. Brave Software in revived lawsuit
Read more: News Corp. files copyright infringement counterclaims v. Brave Software in revived lawsuitNews Corp. filed copyright infringement counterclaims to Brave Software’s declaratory judgment of non-infringement action. This case was voluntarily dismissed in 2025 but then refiled in May 2026 by Brave Software. (We are still counting this as one case from the first filing.) Excerpt: DOWNLOAD NEWS CORP. ANSWER AND COUNTERCLAIMS
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Judge Gonzalez Rogers dismisses Google’s DMCA anti-circumvention claim v. SerpApi for alleged circumvention of SearchGuard v. scraping Google results
Read more: Judge Gonzalez Rogers dismisses Google’s DMCA anti-circumvention claim v. SerpApi for alleged circumvention of SearchGuard v. scraping Google resultsJudge Gonzalez Rogers just dismissed Google’s DMCA anti-circumvention claim against SerpApi for allegedly circumventing Google’s SearchGuard “challenge” to prevent SerpApi from scraping Google search results. The decision is nuanced. First, the Judge dismissed with prejudice Google’s claim “as a matter of law to the extent that they are premised on instances where SearchGuard controls access…
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Judge Martínez-Olguín approves historic Bartz v. Anthropic Class Action settlement but reduces attorneys’ fee award to $101,561,111 instead of $187,500,000 sought
Read more: Judge Martínez-Olguín approves historic Bartz v. Anthropic Class Action settlement but reduces attorneys’ fee award to $101,561,111 instead of $187,500,000 soughtJudge Araceli Martínez-Olguín just issued the final approval of the historic $1.5 billion class action settlement in Bartz v. Anthropic. The Judge approved the settlement but reduced the attorneys’ fee award from the requested $187.5 million to $101,561,111. Instead of the “a multiplier of 6.92 on Class Counsel’s estimated lodestar of $27,082,963” sought by Class…
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After Judge Hellerstein denies leave to amend to add 30,000 songs to case, Sony Music turns around and files a 2d lawsuit v. Udio alleging 30,000 songs infringed
Read more: After Judge Hellerstein denies leave to amend to add 30,000 songs to case, Sony Music turns around and files a 2d lawsuit v. Udio alleging 30,000 songs infringedSony Music Entertainment just sued Uncharted Labs d/b/a Udio in a second copyright lawsuit to allege Udio infringed 30,000+ additional songs. The second lawsuit comes less than a month after Judge Hellerstein denied Sony leave to amend the complaint to add those 30,000+ additional songs. See his Order below: This strategy is similar to the…
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Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies. Total = 128
Read more: Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies. Total = 128We updated the U.S. Map of Copyright Suits v. AI Companies. The new total = 128. We added 13 new cases since mid June’s map. How many lawwsuits do you predict by the end of 2026? DOWNLOAD A PDF OF THE MAP WITH LINKS TO EACH DOCKET:
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Launch of our new AI Data Center Lawsuits Tracker
Read more: Launch of our new AI Data Center Lawsuits TrackerThe majority of Americans oppose the building of new data centers in their neighborhoods, an issue that Gallup polled in May 2026. I’ll have more commentary on this poll in a future post. To add to our array of trackers — since Americans apparently like tracker maps — we created a dedicated page to track…
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Cox Communications decision continues to wipe out contributory infringement claims in lawsuits v. AI companies
Read more: Cox Communications decision continues to wipe out contributory infringement claims in lawsuits v. AI companiesAdd the Advanced Local Media plaintiffs to the list of plaintiffs dropping their contributory infringement claims against AI companies after the Supreme Court’s 9-0 decision in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment. I expect most of these lawsuits will drop the contributory infringement claim or ultimately have it dismissed. A few plaintiffs may try to…