(14 Oct 2025) Orion Newby, a sophomore at Adelphi University in New York, is suing the school, claiming that he was falsely accused of using generative AI on a history paper. According to the lawsuit, Newby has learning differences and, as part of that, works closely with tutors to improve his grammar. He claims that…
(12 Sept 2025) Perplexity AI is the latest artificial intelligence company to be hit with a lawsuit by copyright holders alleging infringement after Encyclopedia Britannica and Merriam-Webster accused it of misusing their content in its “answer engine” for internet searches. The reference companies alleged, opens new tab in New York federal court on Wednesday that Perplexity unlawfully…
(26 Aug 2025) Nikkei and the Asahi Shimbun have sued artificial-intelligence startup Perplexity AI over alleged copyright infringement, joining other news organizations in Japan and the U.S. that are challenging the use of their content in AI tools. The newspapers are seeking an injunction and ¥2.2 billion ($15 million) each in damages from Perplexity, they…
(27 Feb 2025) The “education technology” company Chegg filed a lawsuit against Google claiming that Google is breaching antitrust laws with its AI summary feature. According to the lawsuit, Google is using its monopoly position on search to scrape content from various sites and present the information in AI summaries on Google result pages. A…
(4 Dec 2024) The Internet Archive lost its case against some of the largest publishers in the world after it decided not to elevate the September judgment to the Supreme Court. This ends the saga of the e-book case that started during the pandemic, and we can finally put everything behind us. The primary focus…
(7 Nov 2024) A New York federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against artificial intelligence giant OpenAI that claimed it misused articles from news outlets Raw Story and AlterNet to train its large language models. U.S. District Judge Colleen McMahon said that the outlets could not show enough harm to support the lawsuit but…
(21 Oct 2024) In Massachusetts, a family has filed a lawsuit against the Hingham Public School district, alleging that the school unfairly punished their son for using AI on an AP US History assignment. If the lawsuit moves forward, it will be one of the first legal challenges for schools enforcing AI policies. It has…
(14 Sep 2024) A University of California Los Angeles neuroscience professor has sued six major academic journal publishers, claiming in a proposed class action that they violated antitrust law by barring simultaneous submissions to multiple journals and denying pay for “peer review” services. Professor Lucina Uddin filed the lawsuit in Brooklyn federal court on Thursday against…
(27 June 2024) Perplexity, an AI search engine startup, faces controversy after Wired’s investigation accused it of scraping content from sites that prohibit it. CEO Aravind Srinivas denied ignoring protocols and clarified that third-party providers were involved. Perplexity is also accused of using Forbes’ content without proper attribution. The startup aims for fair agreements with…
(5 Jun 2024) Google was hit with a lawsuit on Wednesday by educational publishers Cengage, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill and Elsevier accusing the tech giant of promoting pirate copies of their textbooks. The publishers told the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, opens new tab that Google has ignored thousands of copyright-infringement notices and…