Sony and Universal Music Group have filed a second lawsuit against AI music generator Suno, claiming its new v6 model infringes on their copyrights. The labels previously sued Suno over alleged infringement involving over 60,000 recordings.
Newly unsealed court documents in the New York Times copyright case reveal Microsoft's Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht privately described AI training as 'the largest theft of labor in human history.' Internal communications show both Microsoft and OpenAI knew scraping paywalled content would harm publishers.
Universal Music Group filed a lawsuit in Delaware federal court against music distributor DistroKid, accusing the company of copyright infringement and flooding streaming platforms with AI-generated music that diverts revenue from legitimate artists. The case highlights growing tensions in the music industry over artificial intelligence-generated content.
A class action lawsuit filed September 4, 2026, alleges Meta illegally harvested users' Facebook and Instagram photos to train its AI image-generation models and to build an unreleased face recognition feature called NameTag.
The Trump administration filed a brief supporting OpenAI in its copyright dispute with the New York Times, arguing that training AI on copyrighted content doesn't violate copyright law and calling the AI industry a national security interest.
Jason Isbell and three other artists filed a lawsuit against AI music company Suno, accusing it of training its model on their songs and imitating their voices. The suit tests a legal strategy based on unlawful imitation rather than copyright.
Authors expecting payments from Anthropic's $1.5 billion AI copyright settlement are receiving notices that publishers and literary agents are claiming ownership rights over more than 482,000 books, potentially reducing individual author payouts of up to $3,000 per book. The dispute centers on who holds the rights to works used to train Anthropic's AI models.
Apple escalated its legal battle against OpenAI with new court filings alleging the AI company is actively destroying crucial evidence and that former iPhone engineer Chang Liu downloaded confidential Apple circuit schematics and used them in his work at OpenAI. OpenAI has called the dispute a 'mess of Apple's own making.'
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell Music filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company used copyrighted song compositions without authorization to train its Claude chatbot, including evidence the company used BitTorrent to obtain songbooks.
Major music publishers including Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, alleging the AI company illegally used copyrighted songs to train its Claude model. The publishers are seeking damages of up to $150,000 per composition, calling it one of the largest thefts of intellectual property in history.
A child sexual abuse survivor has filed a lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI, alleging its Grok chatbot was trained on child sexual abuse material and used images of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic content. The lawsuit comes as xAI has also begun suing some of its own users amid mounting legal challenges over deepfake-related issues.
Multiple legal disputes are underway to determine intellectual property rights for AI-generated works, including a case involving the viral 'Italian brainrot' character Tung Tung Sahur and News Corp's efforts to combat what it calls AI theft of copyrighted material.
Multiple legal disputes are underway to determine intellectual property rights for AI-generated works, including a case involving the viral 'Italian brainrot' character Tung Tung Sahur and News Corp's efforts to combat what it calls AI theft of copyrighted material.
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.
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.
Music publisher Round Hill has filed lawsuits against AI companies Suno and Anthropic, alleging illegal scraping of copyrighted music for training data. The legal action follows a major leak of Suno's source code revealing the company trained its AI music generator on over 2 million scraped YouTube songs.
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.
