Including the New York Times case against OpenAI and Microsoft (which I covered yesterday), there are now 145 AI copyright lawsuits.

That’s according to Chat GPT Is Eating the World, which is keeping track of them here.

When I covered this list back in December, there were only 65 lawsuits, so the list has more than doubled in less than ten months.

I ran across the list again via a social media post on X from Andrew Arruda, who was a co-founder of Ross Intelligence. In his social post on X, he states that “America Is Suing the Golden Goose” and that the true cost of the lawsuits is “six years of not knowing, and every AI model that never got built in America while everyone waits” for an appellate court to say whether training an AI model on copyrighted material is fair use. Arruda notes that the first of the 145 cases is “mine”: when Thomson Reuters sued ROSS in 2020.

I found Arruda’s post via Kevin O’Keefe’s feed, where he noted: “I think they’re building”. Yeah, me too.

Anyway, 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.

Once again for grins, I decided to conduct some word searches to see how many times some of the companies appears in the case names for 145 AI copyright lawsuits (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: 23 times, up 9 times from last December
• Anthropic: 13 times, up 11 – the biggest gain since December
• Meta: 12 times, up 8
• Google: 7 times, up 5
• Microsoft: 7 times, up 3
• Nvidia: 6 times, up 2
• Perplexity: 6 times, up 1
• Stability AI: 4 times, up 2
• Midjourney: 2 times, down 1
• Uncharted Labs: 1 time, down 2

The fact that a couple of companies have less cases than last time tells me that cases must drop off the list once they’re dismissed, settled or concluded.

Apple (4 times), Adobe (4 times) and Salesforce (1 time) are other companies that appear in the list.

Who’s not on the list? I don’t find any entries for Grok, SpaceXAI or Elon Musk. I’m somewhat surprised by that.

So, what do you think? Are you surprised there are 145 AI copyright lawsuits? Or are you surprised there aren’t even more than that? 😉 Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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