Today, we are launching the AI Status Copyright Cases Tracker. It depicts all 118 copyright lawsuits against AI companies in the United States by the stage of litigation: pre-discovery, discovery, summary judgment, interlocutory and direct appeals, and Supreme Court. It also depicts how the same AI companies are commonly facing multiple lawsuits filed by different plaintiffs — a phenomenon known as parallel litigation. Parallel litigation has occurred in a variety of areas of law. In the copyright context, the RIAA lawsuits against music file-sharers and Strike 3 Holdings against John Doe defendants who illegally filed shared their videos provide two examples of parallel litigation involving the same plaintiffs suing different defendants. What’s different about the AI copyright lawsuits is that the parallel litigation involves both the same plaintiffs or plaintiffs in the same class (e.g., book authors, YouTube creators, visual artists, newspapers, publishers, musicians, music publishers) and some of the the same defendant AI companies. The below graphic shows the same AI companies being sued by different plaintiffs. To see the larger version, go to the Status Tracker and click “Defendants with multiple suits” at the top.

Source: chatgptiseatingtheworld.com