AI Litigation Tracker

Here is our latest review and assessment of major AI-related disputes in the media and entertainment sectors. 

Our AI Litigation Tracker is prepared by McKool Smith ...

1. SDNY Multi-District Litigation

Current Status: Discovery filings not over yet. Although discovery is supposed to be closed, a few straggler issues remain open. This ...

1. Sony v. Uncharted Labs (d/b/a Udio)

Current Status: Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss denied, for now. We’ve been following the YouTube “rolling cypher” issue for ...

1. Disney et al. v. MiniMax & Hailuo AI

Current Status: Defendants file their motions to dismiss. This week, Defendants filed two motions to dismiss Disney’s claims. The ...

1. Richard Kadrey, et al. v. Meta

Current Status: Plaintiffs file their amended complaint. As we discussed last week, the Court “reluctantly” permitted Plaintiffs to ...

1. Richard Kadrey, et al. v. Meta

Current Status: Chhabria “reluctantly granted” plaintiffs’ motion to amend their complaint. Anyone following this case will ...

1. Reddit v. Anthropic

Current Status: The Court tentatively grants Reddit’s request for remand. The main dispute in this case has been Reddit’s motion to remand the ...

1. Sony v. Uncharted Labs (d/b/a Udio)

Current Status: Sony Fights to Preserve its DMCA Claim. Sony Music Entertainment, the lone remaining plaintiff in the case. Is ...

1. Richard Kadrey, et al. v. Meta

Current Status: Plaintiffs say “no harm, no foul” in arguing for amended pleadings despite inexcusable delay. The Kadrey Plaintiffs ...

1. Richard Kadrey, et al. v. Meta

Current Status: Meta files supplemental briefing opposing Plaintiffs’ motion to amend their complaint. To set the stage: the Kadrey ...

1. Richard Kadrey, et al. v. Meta

Current Status: Meta opposes Plaintiffs’ motion for leave to amend and seeks a stay. As discussed in December, Plaintiffs filed a motion ...

1. SDNY Multi-District Litigation

Current Status: OpenAI answers; News Plaintiffs move to compel. This past week saw only a handful of filings due to the holiday season ...

1. Richard Kadrey, et al. v. Meta

Current Status: Plaintiffs move to amend their complaint. Two weeks ago, Plaintiffs moved to amend their consolidated complaint to revise ...

AI Infringement Case Updates: December 1, 2025

1. Richard Kadrey, et al. v. Meta

Current Status: No major substantive developments this past week. Last week, this case was ...

1. UMG Recordings v. Uncharted Labs (d/b/a Udio)

Background: This case was brought on June 24, 2024, in the Southern District of New York, by a group of major record ...

1. UMG Recordings v. Uncharted Labs (d/b/a Udio)

Background: This case was brought on June 24, 2024, in the Southern District of New York, by a group of major record ...

1. UMG Recordings v. Uncharted Labs (d/b/a Udio)

Background: This case was brought on June 24, 2024, in the Southern District of New York, by a group of major record ...

1. UMG Recordings v. Uncharted Labs (d/b/a Udio)

Background: This case was brought on June 24, 2024, in the Southern District of New York, by a group of major record ...

1. UMG Recordings v. Uncharted Labs (d/b/a Udio)

Background: This case was brought on June 24, 2024, in the Southern District of New York, by a group of major record ...

1. SDNY Multi-District Litigation

Background: Federal Judge Stein (Southern District of New York) is the multi-district litigation (MDL) judge for twelve high-profile ...

1. Hendrix v. Apple

Background: This recently-filed case targets Apple for work it has done training its family of OpenELM models, which are hosted on HuggingFace and ...

1. Disney, et al. v. Minimax and Hailuo AI

Background: Disney, Universal Studios, and Warner Brothers recently filed suit against AI companies offering video generation ...

1. Disney, et al. v. Minimax and Hailuo AI

Background: Disney, Universal Studios, and Warner Brothers recently filed suit against AI companies offering video generation ...

1. Disney, et al. v. Minimax and Hailuo AI - NEW CASE ALERT!

Current Status: Newly filed. Disney, Universal Studios, and Warner Brothers filed suit against AI companies ...

1. Disney, et al. v. Minimax and Hailuo AI - NEW CASE ALERT!

Current Status: Newly filed. Disney, Universal Studios, and Warner Brothers filed suit against AI companies ...

1. Hendrix v. Apple - MAJOR NEW CASE ALERT!

Current Status: Another group of authors take a bite at Apple — the first AI copyright infringement case against Tim Cook and his ...

1. Bartz v. Anthropic

Current Status: Anthropic pays the largest known copyright settlement in history! 2 weeks ago, we saw that the Bartz plaintiffs (book authors and ...

1. SDNY Multi-District Litigation

Background: Federal Judge Stein (Southern District of New York) is the multi-district litigation (MDL) judge for twelve high-profile ...

1. Bartz v. Anthropic: Major Victory for Plaintiffs

Current Status: Judge William Alsup recently granted class certification for pirated books. Alsup ruled that ...

Here is our latest review and assessment of major AI-related disputes in the media and entertainment sectors. 

Our AI Litigation Tracker is prepared by McKool Smith ...

1. Denial v. OpenAI and Microsoft

Background: NEW CASE JUST FILED. Last Monday, authors Catherine Denial, Ian McDowell, and Steven Schwartz filed a class action suit in ...

1. Kadrey et al. v. Meta: A Bombshell “Fair Use” Decision!

Background: Author Richard Kadrey, comedian Silverman, and others sued Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta on July 7 ...

AI Infringement Case Updates: June 23, 20251. Kadrey et al. v. Meta: A Bombshell “Fair Use” Decision!

Background: Author Richard Kadrey, comedian Silverman, and ...

1. Disney & Universal v. Midjourney

Background: A couple weeks ago, Disney and Universal filed suit for copyright infringement against Midjourney, an AI image ...

1. NEW CASE: Reddit v. Anthropic

Background: Another big case joins the Tracker! Reddit, which has an ongoing generative AI licensing program, files state court claims ...