Suno announced it will implement invisible audio watermarks on AI-generated tracks and impose new download limits to prevent mass distribution, as the company faces copyright infringement lawsuits from major music labels including Sony and Universal.
News Corporation CEO Robert Thomson launched aggressive criticism of AI companies during the company's fiscal Q4 2026 earnings call, threatening additional lawsuits against firms like Perplexity and Brave for allegedly scraping content without permission. The attacks came as News Corp reported declining digital subscriptions in Australia.
A Manhattan federal judge rejected Perplexity AI's motion to dismiss Reddit's copyright lawsuit, which accuses the AI startup of illegally scraping Reddit's content to train its AI-powered search engine. The ruling allows Reddit's core DMCA claims to move forward.
A German court ruled that AI music company Suno broke copyright rules and must disclose illicit revenue, marking a significant development in ongoing legal battles between artists, publishers, and AI technology firms over intellectual property rights.
India's Delhi High Court issued an interim ruling on July 24, 2026, finding that OpenAI's use of news agency ANI's content to train ChatGPT fell under fair dealing and did not constitute copyright infringement.
U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin approved Anthropic's $1.5 billion class action settlement on July 20, 2026, paying roughly $3,000 per work across ~500,000 eligible titles and requiring destruction of pirated training files — the largest known copyright settlement in U.S. history.
Apple sent cease-and-desist letters to around 40 former employees now working at OpenAI, requesting meetings with lawyers and instructing them to preserve documents and communications. This follows Apple's trade secrets lawsuit against OpenAI filed last week.
The New York Times and other publishers filed court documents accusing OpenAI of withholding evidence about how its AI systems are trained and used, requesting legal sanctions in their ongoing copyright lawsuit.
Filed March 2026 in the Northern District of California, this class action against xAI Corp. and Stability AI alleges Grok generated thousands of CSAM images from real photos of minor plaintiffs; an amended complaint added two new plaintiffs and accused xAI of obstructing law enforcement through deficient NCMEC reporting.
Suno has raised $400 million led by Bond Capital at a $5.4 billion valuation, doubling its value from seven months ago. The funding comes as the company faces ongoing litigation from major record labels over copyright issues.
