Category: AI & Copyright

Japanese media add to globe’s AI copyright infringement docket: Nikkei, Asahi Shimbun sue Perplexity AI over “free riding” in Tokyo District Court

August 27, 2025

Nikkei Inc. and The Asahi Shimbun Company are seeking an injunction against Perplexity AI, alleging that its GenAI-powered search engine unlawfully copies and stores articles from their websites, infringing copyright.
BREAKING: Anthropic settles book authors’ copyright class action — win for lawyer who got Fox to pay $800M for falsehoods about voting machines

August 26, 2025

Justin Nelson of Susman Godfrey settled Dominion v. Fox in 2023 and has now struck the next major settlement representing book authors against Anthropic.
Anthropic draws judge’s ire in book authors’ multi-billion-dollar copyright case: “if Anthropic loses big it will be because what it did wrong was also big”

August 11, 2025

Judge Alsup has denied Anthropic’s motion for a stay and seized the opportunity to set the record straight on what the case is about and what his objective is.
New Anthropic motion wants book authors’ copyright case to become first AI fair use appeal on U.S. West Coast (Ninth Circuit)

July 15, 2025

Anthropic won summary judgment against a class of book authors on whether LLM training constitutes fair use, but wants to appeal its loss over using pirated works.
Claude AI maker Anthropic bags key “fair use” win for AI platforms, but faces trial over damages for millions of pirated works

June 24, 2025

Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson’s class action against Anthropic will proceed to trial, despite the Northern District of California finding most of the AI platform’s use of the book authors’ works was “fair”.
“Bottomless pit of plagiarism”: Disney, Universal Studios file first major Hollywood AI copyright complaint

June 12, 2025

Disney and its subsidiaries Marvel Characters, MVL Film Finance, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox, as well as Universal City Studios Productions and its subsidiary Dreamworks, have sued AI company Midjourney for infringing famous, copyrighted works, such as Darth Vader from the Star Wars franchise and the Minions from “Despicable Me”.
Top EU court receives first AI copyright case, raising general questions about text and data mining and questions specific to news snippets

May 26, 2025

A Hungarian court has referred multiple copyright questions concerning LLMs to the European Court of Justice, whose answers will be binding on courts throughout the 27-country bloc.
U.S. judge suggests Claude AI maker Anthropic should pay book authors to settle copyright case: new court order

May 23, 2025

Judge William H. Alsup of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California urges a settlement between Anthropic and book authors alleging copyright violations.
President Trump’s firing of U.S. copyright chief over Generative AI report threatens to politicize AI copyright debate

May 11, 2025

The Trump Administration’s decision to fire U.S. copyright chief Shira Perlmutter, presumably over a report on copyright and Generative AI, will have a polarizing effect.
Claude AI provider Anthropic says it might owe $750 BILLION in copyright damages should book authors’ class action succeed

April 19, 2025

Context: Among the dozens of AI-related copyright infringement lawsuits that are presently pending (most of them in the U.S.), Bartz v. Anthropic in the Northern District of California is one of the more interesting ones. It’s a class action on behalf of book authors against an AI provider that is known for its Claude AI…