With at least 65 AI copyright lawsuits out there, it seems like every AI company is getting sued. But one company is virtually unscathed – so far.

On Friday, The New York Times filed a lawsuit against AI startup Perplexity, claiming its copyrights were repeatedly violated.

The Times said in its lawsuit that it had contacted Perplexity several times over the past 18 months, demanding that the start-up stop using the publication’s content until the two companies negotiated an agreement. But Perplexity continued to use The Times’s material.

The Times also accused Perplexity of damaging its brand by falsely attributing hallucinated information to The Times. Oops.

The story about the lawsuit from (ironically) The Times itself noted that there’s a growing legal battle between copyright holders and A.I. companies that includes more than 40 cases around the country. The Times story linked to a page from “Chat GPT is Eating the World” (actual name of the site) that provides a map of the 40 cases and was dated August 27, 2025.

However, if you go down toward the bottom of that post, there’s a link to a post with a more updated list of 65 AI copyright lawsuits as of last Friday (including the new Times-Perplexity case). That means that 25 cases have either been filed or at least identified in a little over three months.

You can download the map to a PDF file, which I did. The PDF file enables you to click on the link for any case to go to the docket for that case. Pretty cool resource.

For grins, I decided to conduct some word searches to see how many times some of the companies appears in case names (may or may not be a direct correlation to the number of cases they’re involved in, but it’s a rough indicator at least). Here are some of those results:

• OpenAI: 14 times*, which is not surprising
• Perplexity: 5 times
• Microsoft: 4 times
• Meta: 4 times
• Nvidia: 4 times (1 of which was voluntarily dismissed)
• Uncharted Labs: 3 times
• Midjourney: 3 times
• Anthropic 2 times (1 of which has settled)
• Stability AI: 2 times

*One of those is Denial v. OpenAI, which is a perfect case name for these actions. 😉 Even Apple and Salesforce are involved in a couple of cases.

What notable AI company appears to be virtually unscathed? Google. Out of 65 AI copyright lawsuits, Google is only mentioned twice (and one of those was voluntarily dismissed). This case is the only active case against Google included in this listing – it’s been going almost 2 1/2 years since it was filed in July 2023.

I’m curious whether Google hasn’t been sued as much because of their stature as an internet search engine and the desire for people to use it to find Times articles and various books involved in these copyright suits with other AI providers? Or have the plaintiff IP firms simply not turned their attention toward Google just yet?

We’ll see.

So, what do you think? Are you surprised that Google is only included in one active AI copyright case currently? Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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