Reference
The Docket
The litigation and regulation on this record, case by case: the latest thing that happened, when, and the item it happened in. Courts and judges appear only as the record states them. The fuller running tally on this beat is kept by Chat GPT Is Eating the World, which is the source of most of these items; this page is the dated-ruling view of what the wire has published, and nothing it has not.
Dates ahead
- — European Commission — Approximate end of Google's 60-day window to end the practice
- — In re Mosaic LLM Litigation (Databricks) — Hearing before Judge Breyer on whether the case can be decided without a trial (summary judgment)
- — Bartz v. Anthropic — First class payout, $2,203.56 per work, due on or before this date
Courts
| Case | Court | Latest on the record | Next | Items |
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| Bartz v. Anthropic Authors' class action over books used to train Claude; settled | not stated in the record; fee appeal is to the Ninth Circuit |
| First class payout, $2,203.56 per work, due on or before this date | |
| Gilbert v. Anthropic Author Daniel Gilbert, pro se after opting out of the Bartz class, over Hacking World of Warcraft | not stated in the record |
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| Shakespeare v. Anthropic Authors over training data; amended to name Dario Amodei and Benjamin Mann personally | not stated in the record |
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| Sony Music Publishing v. Anthropic Music publisher over training data: torrenting, contributory infringement against Amodei and Mann, CMI removal | N.D. Cal.; expected before Judge Eumi Lee, who has the Concord and BMG suits |
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| Anthropic v. U.S. Department of War Anthropic's First Amendment challenge to its designation as a supply-chain risk | Judge Rita Lin |
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| Google v. SerpApi DMCA anti-circumvention claims against a search-results scraper | N.D. Cal., Chief Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers |
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| Reddit v. Perplexity and SerpApi DMCA anti-circumvention claims over scraping of Reddit content | S.D.N.Y. |
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| Amazon v. Perplexity CFAA claims over Perplexity's Comet agentic browser acting on Amazon.com | Ninth Circuit |
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| CNN v. Perplexity Copyright claims over training inputs and outputs | not stated in the record |
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| In re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation Consolidated publisher and author suits against OpenAI and Microsoft — the New York Times, Daily News, Ziff Davis and others | S.D.N.Y., Judge Sidney Stein |
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| Seattle Times and Newsday v. OpenAI and Microsoft Copyright, DMCA and — a first on this record — Lanham Act trademark dilution over hallucinated content misattributed to the papers | S.D.N.Y., filed Sept. 4; to join the OpenAI MDL |
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| Sullivan et al. v. OpenAI Textbook authors over training data | S.D.N.Y., filed Aug. 14 |
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| wikiHow v. OpenAI Copyright over training inputs and query responses, vicarious infringement, DMCA CMI removal | not stated in the record |
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| In re Google Generative AI Copyright Litigation Consolidated claims over training Gemini; publishers Cengage and Hachette withdrew a motion to intervene | Judge Eumi Lee |
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| Penske Media v. Google Antitrust: search dominance used to obtain publisher content for AI Overviews without compensation | Judge Amit Mehta |
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| United States v. Google (search remedy appeal) Appeal of Judge Mehta's six-year data-sharing and syndication remedy | D.C. Circuit |
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| In re Mosaic LLM Litigation (Databricks) Five authors over training MPT and DBRX on their books | N.D. Cal., Judge Charles Breyer |
| Hearing before Judge Breyer on whether the case can be decided without a trial (summary judgment) | |
| Thomson Reuters v. ROSS Intelligence One of the earliest fair-use rulings against an AI company, on appeal | Third Circuit |
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| Gray v. Nadella et al. Shareholder derivative suit over copyright-infringement risk at Microsoft — the third of its kind | W.D. Wash., filed Sept. 9; expected to consolidate before Judge Rothstein with Anderson and Gusinsky Trust |
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| American Federation of Musicians v. Warner Music Group and Universal Music Group Union claims that the labels licensed recordings to Suno and Udio without paying contractual new-use fees | not stated in the record |
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Regulators and legislatures
| Actor | Action | Date | Next | Items |
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| European Commission | 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. | Approximate end of Google's 60-day window to end the practice | ||
| European Commission | Designated ChatGPT a very large online search engine under the DSA — the third after Google Search and Bing, and the first non-traditional engine. | — | ||
| UK Competition and Markets Authority | Ordered Google to give publishers an AI opt-out and attribution rights. | — | ||
| Alliance de la Presse d'Information Générale (France) | 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. | — | ||
| U.S. Congress (bipartisan bill) | A bill would require AI crawlers to identify themselves. | — |
Rows last revised Sep 11, 2026. A row changes when a law-money item publishes; nothing here is updated on a schedule.