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{"kind":"case","id":"gilbert-v-anthropic","case":"Gilbert v. Anthropic","parties":"Author Daniel Gilbert, pro se after opting out of the Bartz class, over Hacking World of Warcraft","court":"not stated in the record","latest":[{"date":"2026-09-11","note":"Anthropic opposed Gilbert's motion to dismiss its fair-use counterclaim, arguing his covenant not to sue over training copies does not moot it."},{"date":"2026-08-28","note":"Gilbert filed a covenant not to sue over training or purchased copies except those sourced from piracy, and moved to narrow the counterclaim."},{"date":"2026-08-20","note":"Anthropic's amended answer added a First Amendment defense alongside fair use."}],"items":["2026-09-11-anthropic-defends-its-fair-use-counterclaim-in-gilbert-copyright-fight","2026-08-28-gilbert-pledges-not-to-sue-anthropic-over-ai-training-copies","2026-08-20-anthropic-adds-first-amendment-defense-in-gilbert-suit"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#gilbert-v-anthropic"}
{"kind":"case","id":"shakespeare-v-anthropic","case":"Shakespeare v. Anthropic","parties":"Authors over training data; amended to name Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally","court":"not stated in the record","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-19","note":"First Amended Complaint adds plaintiffs, a direct-infringement allegation against Amodei and a contributory claim against Amodei and Mann."}],"items":["2026-08-19-authors-amend-anthropic-suit-add-claims-against-amodei"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#shakespeare-v-anthropic"}
{"kind":"case","id":"sony-music-publishing-v-anthropic","case":"Sony Music Publishing v. Anthropic","parties":"Music publisher over training data: torrenting, contributory infringement against Amodei and Mann, CMI removal","court":"N.D. Cal.; expected before Judge Eumi Lee, who has the Concord and BMG suits","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-29","note":"Filed Aug. 28; the 13th copyright suit against Anthropic on the tracker's count, mirroring Concord's second case and filed by the same firm."}],"items":["2026-08-29-sony-music-publishing-sues-anthropic-over-training-data"],"docs":[{"label":"Docket entry 93, Concord v. Anthropic (CourtListener)","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72199828/93/concord-music-group-inc-v-anthropic-pbc/"}],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#sony-music-publishing-v-anthropic"}
{"kind":"case","id":"anthropic-v-department-of-war","case":"Anthropic v. U.S. Department of War","parties":"Anthropic's First Amendment challenge to its designation as a supply-chain risk","court":"Judge Rita Lin","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-28","note":"Summary judgment granted to Anthropic on the First Amendment claim; a preliminary injunction had issued earlier in the year."}],"items":["2026-08-28-anthropic-wins-first-amendment-ruling-against-department-of-war"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#anthropic-v-department-of-war"}
{"kind":"case","id":"google-v-serpapi","case":"Google v. SerpApi","parties":"DMCA anti-circumvention claims against a search-results scraper","court":"N.D. Cal., Chief Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-28","note":"SerpApi moved to dismiss the First Amended Complaint."},{"date":"2026-08-11","note":"Google refiled, narrowed to Knowledge Panel images as the July ruling allowed."},{"date":"2026-07-28","note":"Most claims dismissed with prejudice July 20: SearchGuard protects ad revenue, not a copyrighted work; 21 days to replead."}],"items":["2026-08-28-serpapi-seeks-to-dismiss-google-s-amended-dmca-complaint","2026-08-11-google-refiles-dmca-claim-against-scraper-serpapi","2026-07-28-judge-dismisses-most-of-google-s-dmca-case-against-scraper-serpapi"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#google-v-serpapi"}
{"kind":"case","id":"reddit-v-perplexity-serpapi","case":"Reddit v. Perplexity and SerpApi","parties":"DMCA anti-circumvention claims over scraping of Reddit content","court":"S.D.N.Y.","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-28","note":"Perplexity raised a First Amendment defense, eight days after Anthropic did the same in Gilbert."},{"date":"2026-07-31","note":"Motions to dismiss denied; the suit proceeds — days after a different judge dismissed most of Google's near-identical claims against SerpApi."}],"items":["2026-08-28-perplexity-raises-first-amendment-defense-in-reddit-s-dmca-suit","2026-07-31-reddit-s-dmca-suit-against-perplexity-serpapi-survives-dismissal-bid"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#reddit-v-perplexity-serpapi"}
{"kind":"case","id":"amazon-v-perplexity","case":"Amazon v. Perplexity","parties":"CFAA claims over Perplexity's Comet agentic browser acting on Amazon.com","court":"Ninth Circuit","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-05","note":"Preliminary injunction reversed: the Assistant acts on the user's direction, so Perplexity is unlikely to be the unauthorized accessor."}],"items":["2026-08-05-9th-circuit-reverses-perplexity-cfaa-injunction-in-amazon-suit"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#amazon-v-perplexity"}
{"kind":"case","id":"cnn-v-perplexity","case":"CNN v. Perplexity","parties":"Copyright claims over training inputs and outputs","court":"not stated in the record","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-22","note":"Perplexity moved to dismiss Counts II–V — everything except the training-input claims."}],"items":["2026-08-22-perplexity-moves-to-dismiss-most-of-cnn-s-claims"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#cnn-v-perplexity"}
{"kind":"case","id":"in-re-openai-copyright-mdl","case":"In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation","parties":"Consolidated publisher and author suits against OpenAI and Microsoft — the New York Times, Daily News, Ziff Davis and others","court":"S.D.N.Y., Judge Sidney Stein","latest":[{"date":"2026-09-05","note":"Summary judgment briefing opened Sept. 4; the Seattle Times and Newsday suit filed the same day will join the MDL."},{"date":"2026-09-02","note":"The Justice Department filed a Statement of Interest calling LLM training a transformative fair use and the plaintiffs' market-dilution theory 'deeply flawed'."},{"date":"2026-08-08","note":"Leave to add contributory-infringement theories against Microsoft denied; material-contribution and trademark-dilution claims dismissed with prejudice after Cox v. Sony foreclosed them."}],"items":["2026-09-05-seattle-times-newsday-sue-openai-microsoft-over-ai-use","2026-09-02-justice-department-backs-fair-use-in-openai-copyright-case","2026-08-08-nyt-ziff-davis-lose-bid-to-revive-copyright-claims-against-microsoft"],"docs":[{"label":"Filing 1661 (CourtListener PDF)","url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.640396/gov.uscourts.nysd.640396.1661.0.pdf"},{"label":"Filing 1662 (CourtListener PDF)","url":"https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.640396/gov.uscourts.nysd.640396.1662.0.pdf"}],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#in-re-openai-copyright-mdl"}
{"kind":"case","id":"seattle-times-newsday-v-openai","case":"Seattle Times and Newsday v. OpenAI and Microsoft","parties":"Copyright, DMCA and — a first on this record — Lanham Act trademark dilution over hallucinated content misattributed to the papers","court":"S.D.N.Y., filed Sept. 4; to join the OpenAI MDL","latest":[{"date":"2026-09-05","note":"Filed; the complaint cites a roughly 47% fall in search referrals to mid-sized regional publishers from December 2024 to December 2025."}],"items":["2026-09-05-seattle-times-newsday-sue-openai-microsoft-over-ai-use"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#seattle-times-newsday-v-openai"}
{"kind":"case","id":"sullivan-v-openai","case":"Sullivan et al. v. OpenAI","parties":"Textbook authors over training data","court":"S.D.N.Y., filed Aug. 14","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-16","note":"Filed; the tracker counts it as the 132nd AI copyright case, echoing Sullivan v. Meta in the Northern District of California."}],"items":["2026-08-16-openai-sued-by-textbook-authors-over-training-data"],"docs":[{"label":"Docket (CourtListener)","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/74652896/sullivan-v-openai-foundation-fka-openai-inc/"}],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#sullivan-v-openai"}
{"kind":"case","id":"wikihow-v-openai","case":"wikiHow v. OpenAI","parties":"Copyright over training inputs and query responses, vicarious infringement, DMCA CMI removal","court":"not stated in the record","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-22","note":"Filed; the 24th copyright suit against OpenAI and the 137th AI copyright suit nationwide on the tracker's count."}],"items":["2026-08-22-wikihow-sues-openai-over-ai-training-query-use"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#wikihow-v-openai"}
{"kind":"case","id":"in-re-google-generative-ai-copyright","case":"In re Google Generative AI Copyright Litigation","parties":"Consolidated claims over training Gemini; publishers Cengage and Hachette withdrew a motion to intervene","court":"Judge Eumi Lee","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-22","note":"Google's request for attorneys' fees denied after the publishers withdrew; the judge flagged their new, separate suit filed roughly 3,000 miles away."},{"date":"2026-07-20","note":"A proposed class action alleged Google trained Gemini on copyrighted books without authorization."}],"items":["2026-08-22-judge-denies-google-fee-bid-as-publishers-drop-suit","2026-07-20-publishers-file-class-action-over-books-used-to-train-gemini"],"docs":[{"label":"Hachette v. Google docket (CourtListener)","url":"https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73603888/hachette-book-group-inc-v-google-llc/"},{"label":"Complaint (PDF, via AAP)","url":"https://publishers.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Hachette-v.-Google-Dkt.-1-Complaint2.pdf"}],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#in-re-google-generative-ai-copyright"}
{"kind":"case","id":"penske-v-google","case":"Penske Media v. Google","parties":"Antitrust: search dominance used to obtain publisher content for AI Overviews without compensation","court":"Judge Amit Mehta","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-26","note":"At the hearing on Google's motion to dismiss, Mehta called Google's use of publisher content in AI Overviews 'seems really unfair' and said product improvements 'are not immune from antitrust scrutiny'."}],"items":["2026-08-26-judge-mehta-calls-google-s-ai-overviews-unfair-to-publishers"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#penske-v-google"}
{"kind":"case","id":"us-v-google-remedy-appeal","case":"United States v. Google (search remedy appeal)","parties":"Appeal of Judge Mehta's six-year data-sharing and syndication remedy","court":"D.C. Circuit","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-08","note":"Amicus brief filed Aug. 4 by Joel Thayer and Asad Ramzanali urging the court to strengthen, not narrow, the remedy, citing Google's 21% share of foundation-model API revenue."}],"items":["2026-08-08-amicus-brief-urges-d-c-circuit-to-toughen-google-s-ai-antitrust-remedy"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#us-v-google-remedy-appeal"}
{"kind":"case","id":"in-re-mosaic-llm","case":"In re Mosaic LLM Litigation (Databricks)","parties":"Five authors over training MPT and DBRX on their books","court":"N.D. Cal., Judge Charles Breyer","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-28","note":"News/Media Alliance, the Association of American Publishers and STM filed a joint amicus brief Aug. 27 opposing summary judgment for Databricks."}],"next":{"date":"2026-10-30","what":"Hearing before Judge Breyer on whether the case can be decided without a trial (summary judgment)"},"items":["2026-08-28-news-media-alliance-opposes-databricks-summary-judgment-bid"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#in-re-mosaic-llm"}
{"kind":"case","id":"thomson-reuters-v-ross","case":"Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence","parties":"One of the earliest fair-use rulings against an AI company, on appeal","court":"Third Circuit","latest":[{"date":"2026-09-04","note":"ROSS filed a Rule 28(j) letter pointing the panel to the Justice Department's Sept. 1 fair-use statement in the OpenAI MDL."}],"items":["2026-09-04-ross-intelligence-flags-doj-s-fair-use-view-to-third-circuit"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#thomson-reuters-v-ross"}
{"kind":"case","id":"gray-v-nadella","case":"Gray v. Nadella et al.","parties":"Shareholder derivative suit over copyright-infringement risk at Microsoft — the third of its kind","court":"W.D. Wash., filed Sept. 9; expected to consolidate before Judge Rothstein with Anderson and Gusinsky Trust","latest":[{"date":"2026-09-09","note":"Filed against Nadella, other directors and officers, and Microsoft itself."}],"items":["2026-09-09-microsoft-nadella-face-third-ai-copyright-shareholder-derivative-suit"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#gray-v-nadella"}
{"kind":"case","id":"afm-v-warner-umg","case":"American Federation of Musicians v. Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group","parties":"Union claims that the labels licensed recordings to Suno and Udio without paying contractual new-use fees","court":"not stated in the record","latest":[{"date":"2026-08-20","note":"The union dropped Warner; claims against Universal continue."}],"items":["2026-08-20-musicians-union-drops-warner-but-not-umg-from-ai-suit"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#afm-v-warner-umg"}
{"kind":"regulation","id":"eu-dma-google-fine","actor":"European Commission","action":"Fined Alphabet €460 million under DMA Article 6(5) for self-preferencing nine Google services in search ranking and crawling; the decision excludes AI Overviews.","date":"2026-07-23","next":{"date":"2026-09-21","what":"Approximate end of Google's 60-day window to end the practice"},"items":["2026-09-03-eu-fines-google-460-million-for-dma-search-self-preferencing"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#eu-dma-google-fine"}
{"kind":"regulation","id":"eu-chatgpt-vlose","actor":"European Commission","action":"Designated ChatGPT a very large online search engine under the DSA — the third after Google Search and Bing, and the first non-traditional engine.","date":"2026-08-31","items":["2026-08-31-eu-designates-chatgpt-a-very-large-online-search-engine"],"docs":[{"label":"Commission press release","url":"https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1772"},{"label":"Designation notice (digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu)","url":"https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-designates-chatgpt-reddit-roblox-under-digital-services-act"}],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#eu-chatgpt-vlose"}
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{"kind":"regulation","id":"fr-apig-complaint","actor":"Alliance de la Presse d'Information Générale (France)","action":"Complaint to France's competition authority: AI Overviews, launched in France without publisher consent, breach the 2022 compensation agreement under which Google was fined €250 million in 2024.","date":"2026-08-11","items":["2026-08-11-french-publishers-file-complaint-against-google-ai-overviews"],"url":"https://anythingengineoptimization.com/docket/#fr-apig-complaint"}
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