January 02, 2026
Legal experts following California courts in 2026 are tracking high-stakes personal injury, antitrust and copyright battles against giants in the social media, artificial intelligence and entertainment industries, as well as wide-ranging legal disputes arising from Los Angeles wildfires and high-profile appeals pending before the California Supreme Court.
April 03, 2025
The Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation on Thursday decided to centralize the pretrial work for a series of copyright infringement and Digital Millennium Copyright Act lawsuits against OpenAI in New York federal court.
February 13, 2024
A California federal judge dismissed the bulk of two proposed copyright class actions against ChatGPT creator OpenAI Inc. while giving two putative classes led by comedian Sarah Sliverman and author Paul G. Tremblay a chance to cure deficiencies in their pleadings in some instances.
October 06, 2023
Journalist and writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Andrew Sean Greer, National Book Award recipient Jacqueline Woodson and other authors have joined two proposed class actions in California federal court accusing Meta Platforms and OpenAI of illegally using their copyrighted works to train their respective artificial intelligence products.
September 11, 2023
Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon and several other writers have filed a proposed class action accusing OpenAI Inc. of copyright infringement, claiming that the artificial intelligence maker incorporated their copyrighted works in datasets used to train the models powering ChatGPT, according to a suit filed in California federal court.