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Case index

276 records
CASE-00012022–2026

ArtStation / NoAI

This batch includes platform announcements on NoAI, content filtering, and anti-scraping measures; the protest’s beginning still requires evidence.

5 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-00132022

Equity / Stop AI Stealing the Show

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-00182023

Glaze / Defensive tool for artists

Collected events and documents are linked in the timeline; the case history remains under research.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-00202025

Sora 2 / MPA copyright statement

This case contains one dated event; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-00212025–2026

Disney and NBCUniversal / Midjourney litigation

This case contains one dated event; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-00222025

Warner Bros. Discovery / Midjourney litigation

This case contains one dated event; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-00252023

LOFTER / AI drawing feature and creator protests

This case contains two dated events; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-00302026

Don’t Steal This Book / Blank-book action

This case contains one dated event; see the timeline. Original documents, parties’ responses, and subsequent developments are still being collected.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-01852026

Alleged voice imitation

Research is ongoing; collected events do not constitute a complete case history.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-01972026

Yau-led AI-assisted mathematics journal

The publisher lists Journal of AI-Assisted Mathematics with Shing-Tung Yau as editor-in-chief and publication scheduled from 2027, four issues yearly. Its remit supports substantive AI contributions to pure mathematics while retaining proof standards and encouraging explanations of AI use and verification.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-01982023

African literary responses to AI

Akram’s 2023-dated collection presents varied literary responses to AI; Onyekachi’s poem stages pressure to adapt through its narrator’s accounts of displaced craft and writing.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-01992026

Fly FM: AI digital-twin DJ recruitment and labour controversy

The report describes Fly FM recruiting a person whose voice, personality and likeness would underpin a digital-twin DJ for an RM2,000 contract. Public criticism concerns remuneration and human employment.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02002026

Meta: facial-image training and biometric-consent litigation

Counsel reports a suit by Illinois and California residents alleging that Meta used Facebook and Instagram facial images for NameTag recognition and Emu/Muse Image generation, and collected biometric data without required consent.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02032026

UMG v DistroKid: AI distribution and deception allegations

UMG, Capitol Records and Capitol CMG allege deceptive distribution and copyright infringement involving mass AI content, identity and metadata accountability. The complaint distinguishes disclosed AI music use.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02052026

Blizzard and CWA: collective bargaining over AI

CWA reports ratification of contracts covering nearly 1,900 Blizzard workers and requiring discussion, evaluation and bargaining over workplace AI use.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02072026

UnitedMasters: AI training, sublicensing and opt-out terms

The AI clause covers training, generation and third-party sublicensing for uploads from 8 September. Identifiable voice, name, likeness and digital replicas require separate written consent. Opt-out concerns future uses, excluding moderation, fraud detection and content identification.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02102026

Bartz v Anthropic: author-publisher settlement allocation

The Guild urges publishers to relinquish long-out-of-print settlement claims to authors and compensate authors excluded by publishers' contractual registration failures. It says it lacked access to the downloaded-work dataset.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02112026

California SB 1050: synthetic-performer advertising disclosure

The governor announces signing SB 1050, requiring disclosures in audio/video advertising using synthetic performers and restricting continued use of advertisements found in violation. SAG-AFTRA participated in drafting.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02162026

AFM: session-musician new-use payments after AI licensing

UMG argues that SRLA Article 21(a) imports rates from another applicable agreement and that no AI-use agreement exists. It seeks dismissal and recounts AFM’s competing view that the SRLA itself can supply rates.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-02202026

Seattle Times and Newsday v OpenAI and Microsoft

The newspapers allege unlicensed copying for datasets, training and outputs, seeking damages, injunctions and impoundment or destruction of models and datasets incorporating their works.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02222026

Chilean ADIP: objection to proposed Article 71T

ADIP opposes proposed Article 71T, arguing it would facilitate AI training without creators’ permission or payment; it calls for government and congressional reconsideration and participation by other creative associations.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-02232024

SIDARTE: AI and theatrical labour workshop

SIDARTE announces a free members’ workshop on AI and theatre, combining actors’ labour impacts, challenges and opportunities with AI applications in stage design, production and dramaturgy.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02242026

Nalubaale Review: AI-generated submission exclusion

Nalubaale Review calls for English-language manuscripts from African and diaspora writers, requiring original unpublished work and rejecting AI-generated work; deadline 30 June.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02292023–2025

SAGAI: AI, rights and audiovisual labour discussions

SAGAI reports producing a videopodcast hosted by Fredi Vivas on intellectual property, virtual production, limits on AI use, and challenges and opportunities for performers; full conversations were promised for later release.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-02362023–2026

German VDS: voice synthesis, performer control and human-voice labelling

Germany’s VDS distinguishes supplementary voice applications from artistic interpretation, seeks performers’ control over content and ethical standards, and advocates a human-voice quality label. Added 2026 Netflix training-permission complaints and BFFS’s differing interpretation.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-02372024–2025

Spanish cultural coalition: AI extended collective licensing dispute

ACE Traductores publishes a coalition position opposing the substance and process of proposed extended collective licensing, seeking dialogue and remedies for alleged past unauthorised AI uses; it reports submissions and ministry meetings.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-02402024

Norwegian translator-publisher AI addendum

Publisher and translator organisations publish an AI addendum explicitly applicable from 5 September 2024. Training on translations requires special permission from the other contracting party; AI translation or processing requires agreement between the parties, except for ordinary word processing and proofreading.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02412025

ASCAP / BMI / SOCAN: alignment of partially AI-generated music registration policies

The three organisations jointly announce that compositions combining AI-generated elements and human creation may be registered and included in their respective licensed repertoires, while fully AI-generated works are excluded. SOCAN’s same-day guidance separately addresses author responsibility, no requirement to identify AI portions, and procedures for suspending royalties on suspected non-compliant works.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02422026

Finnish author-publisher AI good practices

Three Finnish author/publisher associations announce updated good practices covering negotiated AI use, risks, training protection and text-and-data-mining reservation.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02432024

SINDCINE / SIAESP: AI clauses in a Brazilian audiovisual collective agreement

SINDCINE/SIAESP’s joint statement reports that the 2024/2025 collective agreement was signed on 28 August but had not been registered because of technical system problems. The parties assert applicability from signature. Clause 70 accepts assistive AI while protecting creative labour and prior consent.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02442025–2026

Chileactores / Caleuche: human performance talent and generative AI

The organiser reports that the January 30 ceremony opened with an AI-impact reflection featuring Eduardo Barril; this retrospectively supports an enacted awards intervention. Chileactores publishes a retrospective quoting president Esperanza Silva’s call for fair AI regulation and objection to unpermitted training use. An organisational advocacy statement, not enacted law or an infringement ruling.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-02482024–2025

Nine Japanese music organisations establish AI council

Nine Japanese music organisations announced an AI council on 25 January 2024 to study and propose a framework balancing creators’ rights and AI use, expressing concerns about training, livelihoods and deepfakes while recognising creative potential.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-02492024

AI Art History — Martín Legón: Solo las piedras recuerdan

Museo Moderno dates Martín Legón’s exhibition from21 August 2024 to23 February 2025, curated by Francisco Lemus, framing a dialogue between analogue pedagogical traditions of Escuelismo and AI, knowledge and authorship.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-02512025

Swedish model translation contract: AI production and training

On 13 January 2025 Sveriges Författarförbund introduced a model literary-translation contract adopted on 19 December 2024. Section16 requires the translator’s own, non-generative-AI work; it grants no publisher training right and requires written consent for training sublicences.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02532023

French performers’ voice safeguards

On 16 May 2023 performers assembled at SFA’s call issued a Paris declaration seeking contractual and legislative safeguards, an explicit-permission register and AI labelling, with debate on human-work quotas and public-funding conditions.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-02552023

Finnish music organizations: responsible-AI principles announcement

Teosto and Suomen Musiikintekijät announced endorsement of responsible-AI principles on 23 October 2023, also naming Finnish composer, publisher and IFPI organizations; they support creative assistance while advocating permission and fair remuneration.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02562024

Polish ZAiKS: AI registration and licensing position

On 11 June 2024 ZAiKS published Miłosz Bembinow’s board/AI-group position: AI-assisted works retaining human creative choices may be registered under existing rules; training permission, remuneration and transparency are advocated. A registration process involving generated material was planned for late June, not verified as implemented. On 20 September 2024 ZAiKS published Monika Lubańska’s account that revised registration rules took effect on 5 June and AI-involving registration and zaiks.online changes had been introduced. This is institutional retrospective reporting, not independently verified rollout or individual registration evidence.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-02572024

Buenos Aires literary-translation and AI panel

On 6 September 2024 Goethe-Institut Buenos Aires held a hybrid literary-translation/AI panel moderated by Marita Propato with Ezequiel Canle Santamaría and remote speaker Andreas G. Förster. Her retrospective discusses translation copyright, stylistic loss and post-editing burdens while allowing possible supervised uses.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02582025

ONDA AI-copyright discussion at SILA

On 6 November 2025 ONDA held an AI/copyright discussion in SILA’s Assia Djebar hall, addressing creative rights and technological adaptation and advocating responsible use and legal updates.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02612023

AI Art History — Ana María Caballero: Being Borges

Caballero’s Being Borges combines AI images from Spanish originals, English translations and her poems into text-image collages. Curatorial captions date works including Shang Yang, The Elephant and A Bao A Qu to2023.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02622023

SFWJ: generative AI and creative rights

SFWJ welcomes non-infringing AI creation while urging user rights checks, provider safeguards and policy protection against unpublished-work training, dumping and worsening contract terms.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02662026

Iran war: senators request an AI-operations investigation

Reed, Warner and Coons seek an investigation of AI-assisted intelligence and operations, including reporting about the Minab school strike. March 11 questions on AI use and human verification also backfilled.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-02692023–2025

AELC AI guidance for literary authors

On 6 October 2023 AELC announced an AI guide addressing writers’ and translators’ publishing interests. This dates the guide announcement, not later contractual wording on the current page.

2 eventsResearch in progress
CASE-02702023

New Zealand creators and publishers joint AI statement

On 2 October 2023 NZSA posted the September statement of CLNZ, PANZ and NZSA, advocating training permission, remuneration, transparency, collective licensing and co-regulation.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-02712025

Ecad AI disclosure in music registration

Article72 records approval of this edition by Ecad’s 600th assembly on 10 December 2025; article67 lists AI-use disclosure among changes, while registration clauses retain optional prompts.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-U261001-012026

IMPF and IMPEL publish principles for fair generative-AI licensing

On 30 September 2026, IMPF and IMPEL proposed principles for generative-AI music licensing. They distinguish payments for past uses, training, generated outputs and future exploitation, and call for rightsholder involvement in scope and valuation. This is an industry negotiating framework, not a concluded collective licence or a statutory tariff.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-U261001-022026

Third Circuit affirms the ROSS copyright and fair-use ruling

In case 25-2153, the Third Circuit affirmed the copyright and fair-use ruling concerning 2,243 Westlaw headnotes. The opinion records a filing date of 29 September 2026; the court’s public list records the case on 30 September. The dispute concerns protected summaries used for a competing legal-search system. The ROSS system at issue was not generative AI.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-U261001-032026

Connecticut provenance duties for large generative-AI providers take effect

Section 15 of Public Act 26-15 takes effect on 1 October 2026. It imposes provenance duties on covered providers of generative-AI systems with over one million monthly users that are publicly accessible for personal use by Connecticut consumers. It concerns generated or materially altered audio, images and video, subject to commercial and technical reasonableness.

1 eventResearch in progress
CASE-U261001-042026

Maryland AI and deepfake identity-fraud amendments take effect

SB 8 / Chapter 445, approved on 12 May 2026, takes effect on 1 October and amends Criminal Law §8-301. It brings specified AI and deepfake conduct within identity-fraud rules. The relevant prohibition requires knowing, wilful conduct and fraudulent intent, addressing harmful impersonation and specified false-record practices rather than generally banning AI art or stylistic imitation.

1 eventResearch in progress