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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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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
Read more: Alliance for a Better Utah v. Kevin O’Leary, FOX News. Mr. Wonderful sued for alleged defamation in attacking opposition to his planned data centerKevin 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
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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Ted Entertainment files 1st amended complaint v. Apple to add more allegations of TPM access control issue
Read more: Ted Entertainment files 1st amended complaint v. Apple to add more allegations of TPM access control issueInstead 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
Read more: Should Hachette and Cengage have to pay Google’s legal fees after publishers seek to withdraw their motion to intervene in caseIn 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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Judge Orrick recuses from SEIU Pension Plan v. Adobe
Read more: Judge Orrick recuses from SEIU Pension Plan v. AdobeJudge Orrick recused himself from SEUI Pension Plan v. Adobe, the copyright shareholder derivative lawsuit.
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Kunlun, Skywork AI move to dismiss Attack the Sound complaint
Read more: Kunlun, Skywork AI move to dismiss Attack the Sound complaintDefendants Kunlun and Skywork AI moved to dismiss the complaint filed by Attack the Sound in the Northern District of Illinois. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE MOTION TO DISMISS
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Google hit with 2d AI copyright suit in 2 days. Publishers sue Google for the 1st time for alleged infringement in its AI model Gemini
Read more: Google hit with 2d AI copyright suit in 2 days. Publishers sue Google for the 1st time for alleged infringement in its AI model GeminiThe AI Copyright Wars are escalating. Google was just hit with its 2d copyright lawsuit in 2 days. Hachette Book Group, Cengage Learning, Elsevier, the book author Scott Turow, and S.C.R.I.B.E filed a class action copyright suit in the Southern District of New York. It’s similar to the suit they filed against Meta and Mark…
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Google sued again in AI copyright lawsuit by EVOX Productions for alleged use of images to train Nano Banana model. Total AI suits = 127
Read more: Google sued again in AI copyright lawsuit by EVOX Productions for alleged use of images to train Nano Banana model. Total AI suits = 127After suing Stanford University for creating the famous ImageNet datasets that allegedly include EVOX Productions’ car photographs, EVOX continues filing more lawsuits. First it was Stanford. Then it was Hugging Face, Stability AI, Runway AI, and Deviant Art. Now it’s Google. Excerpt: DOWNLOAD THE COMPLAINT: