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OpenAI faces most copyright lawsuits. But other AI companies face multiple lawsuits, too.
Nearly four years into the AI Copyright Wars, more than 100 copyright lawsuits have been filed against AI companies. But the number of lawsuits by AI company is not equal. OpenAI faces the most lawsuits by far. Here’s a look at the Top 18 AI Companies by Number of Copyright Suits: Download a PDF of Read more
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How we can survive AI. Ben Sasse’s WSJ Op-Ed
Ben Sasse has Stage 4 metatastic cancer. Based on his initial 4-month prognosis, he should be already dead as he discussed recently. In today’s Wall Street Journal, he wrote an Op-Ed on “Habits for Humanity in the Age of AI.” The article is “adapted from his speech accepting the Manhattan Institute’s Alexander Hamilton Award on Read more
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Are university AI researchers now at risk of facing copyright suits for acquiring or using unlicensed materials, or models trained on them?
When I spoke at the NeurIPS conference a couple years ago, I prodded the audience full of AI researchers from universities to think about their roles in the ongoing debate over the acquisition and use of copyrighted materials to research, develop, and train AI models. I didn’t say it there but said it in my Read more
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Udio admits to using music from YouTube videos as training data
On April 29, 2026, Udio aka Uncharted Labs filed its Answer to Sony Music Entertainment’s First Amended Complaint. Noteworthy is Udio’s admission (long assumed) that it used the music files from YouTube videos to train its AI models: Although this admission received media attention, it was not surprising. Udio is filing its Answer now after Read more
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Anthropic asks Judge Martinez-Olguin to deem Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cognella lawsuits as related cases to Bartz v. Anthropic
Although Judge Martínez-Olguín expressed doubt of Anthropic’s earlier notice to seek a related case status between Carreyrou v. Anthropic and Bartz v. Anthopic, Anthropic has formally asked the Judge to consider related case status with two recently filed lawsuits Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Anthropic and Cognella, Inc. v. Anthropic. Presumably, because Judge Pitts Read more
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Stanford University sued for copyright infringement based on Stanford AI researchers’ compilation of unlicensed images in ImageNet dataset, one of the most important datasets in the history of AI research
In January 2023, with the release of AI generators, I predicted copyright lawsuits will be filed against AI companies. I was right. Within the same week, the 1st lawsuit against generative AI companies was filed. The first of many to come. Then, upon researching the origin of AI training, which started at universities, I predicted Read more