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Docket 3:25-cv-06891 Active
Last action: Apr 23, 2026

Getty Images v. Stability AI

Getty Images (US), Inc. v. Stability AI, Ltd.

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. In the UK, the High Court largely rejected Getty's parallel claims in November 2025.

Jurisdiction
US Federal
Court
N.D. California (refiled from D. Delaware)
Filed
Feb 3, 2023
Topic
Copyright
Docket 3:23-cv-00201 Landmark
Last action: Feb 3, 2026

Andersen v. Stability AI

Sarah Andersen, Kelly McKernan, Karla Ortiz, et al. v. Stability AI, Midjourney, DeviantArt, Runway

The original class-action against generative image models. The case that prompted the creation of this website in 2023. An August 2024 ruling allowed the direct and induced copyright infringement claims to proceed and dismissed the DMCA Section 1202 claims with prejudice; right-of-publicity claims were substantially narrowed. The summary judgment hearing is set for February 2027.

Jurisdiction
US Federal
Court
N.D. California
Filed
Jan 13, 2023
Topic
Copyright
Docket 1:23-cv-11195 Active
Last action: Sep 4, 2026

The New York Times v. OpenAI & Microsoft

The New York Times Company v. OpenAI, Inc.; Microsoft Corporation

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 dominated 2025. The case is now part of the consolidated OpenAI copyright MDL before Judge Sidney Stein, where summary judgment motions were filed in September 2026.

Jurisdiction
US Federal
Court
S.D. New York
Filed
Dec 27, 2023
Topic
Copyright
Docket 23-5233; S. Ct. No. 25-449 Cert denied
Last action: Mar 2, 2026

Thaler v. Perlmutter

Stephen Thaler v. Shira Perlmutter, Register of Copyrights

The DC Circuit affirmed the Copyright Office's refusal to register an AI-authored work, holding that copyright requires human authorship, and on March 2, 2026 the Supreme Court denied certiorari (No. 25-449), leaving that ruling in place. A foundational precedent: works generated autonomously by a machine are not copyrightable under existing US law.

Jurisdiction
US Federal
Court
DC Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court (cert denied)
Filed
Jun 2, 2022
Topic
Authorship

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