A comprehensive, editorial index of legal proceedings addressing AI-generated content, training-data copyright, detection mandates, and algorithmic accountability. Every brief summarized and annotated.
Getty alleges Stability AI copied more than 12 million photographs, captions, and metadata from its collection to train Stable Diffusion. The case tests whether mass ingestion of licensed imagery for commercial model training can ever qualify as fair use.
The original class-action against generative image models. The case that prompted the creation of this website in 2023. A 2024 ruling allowed direct infringement and DMCA claims to proceed; induced infringement and right-of-publicity claims were substantially narrowed.
The highest-profile AI copyright suit. The Times presents 100+ examples of verbatim reproduction by GPT-4 and argues OpenAI's fair-use defense collapses when outputs substitute for the original. Discovery disputes over training logs and deletion practices have dominated 2025.
The DC Circuit affirmed the Copyright Office's refusal to register an AI-authored work, holding that copyright requires human authorship. A foundational precedent: works generated autonomously by a machine are not copyrightable under existing US law.
CNIL enforcement action challenging the lawful basis for training LLaMA models on EU resident data. The case tests whether legitimate-interest is an adequate GDPR basis for AI training at scale.
Claims of unauthorized voice cloning of BBC presenters for a commercial synthetic-speech product. The first major UK case to test voice as a protectable attribute distinct from traditional likeness.
Settled out of court with a commitment by Adobe to implement granular opt-out mechanisms and artist attribution in Firefly. A template for negotiated compliance outside the trial pipeline.
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