AI Cases To Watch
Track the landmark legal cases redefining AI law. Discover in-depth insights into copyright disputes, AI liability, and privacy regulations that are setting the global standards for tomorrow's technology.
AI Cases to Watch
The NYT alleges OpenAI and Microsoft unlawfully reproduced millions of its articles to train GPT models, constituting direct and vicarious copyright infringement. The case raises foundational questions about whether AI training on copyrighted content qualifies as "fair use" under US law.
Getty alleges Stability AI scraped and trained its Stable Diffusion model on over 12 million copyrighted photographs without consent, generating AI outputs that embed Getty's watermarks — potentially constituting both copyright and trademark infringement.
California's Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act (AB 2655) was partially struck down by a federal judge in August 2025 for conflicting with Section 230 and raising First Amendment concerns. Minnesota's deepfake election ban faces parallel challenge from X (formerly Twitter).
Derek Mobley applied to over 100 jobs through Workday's AI screening system and was rejected within minutes each time. The case achieved nationwide class action certification in May 2025, covering all applicants over 40 rejected by the AI system — illustrating how a single algorithm can discriminate at unprecedented scale.
The CJEU clarified that data controllers must provide individuals with a concise, transparent, intelligible and easily accessible explanation of the logic involved in automated processing. Complexity of the system does not relieve the controller of this duty — a significant ruling for AI credit scoring and automated decision systems across the EU.