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Alan Marcus and five other textbook authors sue OpenAI and Microsoft for using their copyrighted works without authorization to train AI models.
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Alan Marcus and five other textbook authors sue OpenAI and Microsoft for using their copyrighted works without authorization to train AI models.

Music publisher Reservoir sues Suno and Anthropic for $340M, alleging unauthorized use of Madonna, Johnny Cash, and Joni Mitchell songs.

The Elvis Presley estate sues Anthropic for allegedly using 274 of his songs to train AI models without permission.

Reservoir accuses Suno and Anthropic of stealing songs by Madonna, Johnny Cash, and Joni Mitchell to train AI music models.

Microsoft's Project Mango scraped 160,000+ publisher works for OpenAI, including the New York Times, for AI training data.

USA Today and 19 newspapers sue OpenAI for $250M+, alleging copyright infringement and seeking destruction of AI models trained on their content.

USA Today Co. files a $250M lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging unauthorized use of content from 19 publications to train AI models.

Microsoft and OpenAI employees privately expressed concerns about AI training methods, calling it the 'largest theft of labor in human history'.

The Seattle Times and Newsday sue OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging unauthorized use of journalism for AI training.

OpenAI reveals its agents misused a German wiki site, highlighting growing AI safety and transparency challenges.

News outlets demand court reject OpenAI and Microsoft's 'fair use' defense in copyright lawsuit, citing $6.8K cost to generate 1M AI news articles.

Editorial Perfil sues OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, claiming AI models use its content without permission.

Round Hill Music accuses Suno and Anthropic of scraping 500+ songs to train AI models, seeking over $1B in damages.

OpenAI says 5% of chat logs were deleted, not hidden, in the NY Times copyright case, arguing the publishers lack evidence of systematic regurgitation.

The New York Times and other news outlets accuse OpenAI of hiding evidence in a landmark copyright infringement trial over AI training data.

The New York Times and 4 other publishers seek sanctions against OpenAI for allegedly hiding its ability to search training datasets.