Category: Lawsuits

Disney attempts to salvage its contributory infringement claim v. Midjourney on inducement theory, post-Cox Communications

The fallout from the Supreme Court’s decision in Cox Communications v. Sony Music Entertainment continues. In response to Midjourney’s motion for a judgment on the pleadings that Disney’s contributory infringement claim based on “knowledge and material contribution” fails as a matter of law under Cox, Disney says its complaint also alleges an inducement theory that…
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Judge Chhabria grants Meta additional discovery re: Kadrey’s contributory infringement claim in FACC

Judge Chhabria just granted Meta’s request for additional discovery related to the new claim for contributory infringement that the Kadrey book authors added in their First Amended Consolidated Complaint. The order states: “Meta’s motion for leave to serve discovery is granted. From the materials submitted by the parties (including the sample RFPs and interrogatories), Meta’s…
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Launch of BIPA Case Tracker, and Web Scraping & AI Agents Case Tracker

To add to our portfolio of AI-related case trackers, we are launching today 2 new case trackers: We now have 6 AI case trackers. The other 4 trackers are below. You can find the links on the homepage and scrolling down. Looks like we’ve run out of AI cases to track.
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UMG Recordings asks to dismiss American Federation of Musicians’ complaint as foreclosed by the Sound Recording Labor Agreement

Fascinating dispute between the music labels and the American Federation of Musicians of the United States and Canada over whether the musicians are entitled to compensation from the settlements struck thus far with AI companies. UMG Recordings says no based on the provisions of the Sound Recording Labor Agreement, at least UMG’s interpretation. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD…
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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

The 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

News 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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Alliance for a Better Utah v. Kevin O’Leary, FOX News. Mr. Wonderful sued for alleged defamation in attacking opposition to his planned data center

Kevin O’Leary aka “Mr. Wonderful” from Shark Tank and FOX News were sued for defamation. The suit stems from comments O’Leary made on FOX News to attack the opponents of his planned data center in Utah. The complaint filed by the Alliance for a Better Utah alleges that O’Leary attacked them as “proxies for the…
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Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies. Total = 128

We 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:
Read more: Latest US Map of Copyright Suits v. AI companies. Total = 128
Ted Entertainment files 1st amended complaint v. Apple to add more allegations of TPM access control issue

Instead of responding to Apple’s motion to dismiss, Ted Entertainment filed a First Amended Complaint, trying to beef up its allegations that YouTube videos have access-control TPMs that get protection under the DMCA anti-circumvention provision, Section 1201(a). Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE 1ST AMENDED COMPLAINT
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Should Hachette and Cengage have to pay Google’s legal fees after publishers seek to withdraw their motion to intervene in case

In re Google Generative AI Copyright Litigation just got interesting.Google has asked Judge Eumi Lee to order Hachette and Cengage publishers to reimburse Google for the attorneys’ fees it cost to respond to their belated motion to intervene. Hachette and Cengage recently filed a new lawsuit in the SDNY and sought to withdraw this motion…
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