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Attorney Steven Schwartz used ChatGPT to draft a legal brief and submitted it containing six entirely fabricated case citations. The court sanctioned Schwartz and his colleague for submitting fake precedent without verification.
The FTC reached a settlement with DoNotPay, the self-described 'world's first robot lawyer,' finding the company made deceptive claims about its AI's ability to substitute for human lawyers, including generating legal documents comparable to those drafted by attorneys.
Attorney Michael Goldstein was sanctioned $5,000 after submitting a brief containing AI-fabricated case citations and fake quotations in an employment discrimination case. Unlike Mata v. Avianca, this occurred after widespread awareness of AI hallucination risks.
The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft alleging copyright infringement, claiming that GPT models were trained on millions of Times articles without permission and can reproduce near-verbatim excerpts, threatening the newspaper's business model.
Three authors sued Anthropic PBC for training Claude on pirated copies of their books. Judge William Alsup ruled that AI training on lawfully purchased books is 'quintessentially transformative' fair use, but training on pirated copies from Books3, LibGen, and PiLiMi is 'inherently, irredeemably infringing.' The case settled for $1.5 billion covering 482,460 books — the largest copyright recovery in U.S. history.
Thomson Reuters sued Ross Intelligence for scraping Westlaw headnotes to train its AI legal research tool. The court granted summary judgment to Thomson Reuters, making this the only federal ruling to date holding that AI training on copyrighted material is not fair use.
Getty Images sued Stability AI in the UK for training Stable Diffusion on millions of Getty's copyrighted photographs. In a landmark ruling, the High Court held that trained AI model weights do not constitute 'copies' of the training images under UK copyright law, fundamentally reshaping the global AI copyright debate.
GEMA, Germany's music performing rights society, sued OpenAI after ChatGPT reproduced copyrighted song lyrics in its outputs. The Munich District Court ruled that ChatGPT's verbatim reproduction of lyrics constitutes unauthorized reproduction under German copyright law — the first European court to find AI output directly infringing.
Authors Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden sued Meta for training LLaMA on pirated books from LibGen. Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that AI training constitutes fair use regardless of whether the training data was lawfully obtained — directly contradicting the Bartz v. Anthropic piracy distinction.
Major music publishers including Concord, Universal, and ABKCO sued Anthropic for training Claude on copyrighted song lyrics. The case is notable for its claim that Claude outputs verbatim lyrics on demand, and for naming Anthropic co-founder Dario Amodei as a personal defendant — testing individual liability for AI training decisions.
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