AI copyright lawsuits pile up: USA Today, 300 authors, musicians sue OpenAI, Meta, Black Forest Labs
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-10-22
- ednewtonrex (RT'd by Gary Marcus): AI copyright litigation is accelerating, with three major suits in recent weeks.
- USA Today and 18 other papers sued OpenAI; the complaint cites internal messages (Brockman on models being "excellent at news," Amodei listing News Generation as a GPT-3 skill) and alleges OpenAI stripped Copyright Management Information.
- 300 authors sued Meta over allegedly training Llama on "shadow library" pirated books.
- Two musicians sued Black Forest Labs: 34 FLUX.3 queries asking for videos with a specific copyrighted track all produced remarkably similar audio — cited as direct evidence of ingestion and reverse-engineering.
- Author expects larger music rights holders to follow suit; the pace is speeding up, not slowing down.
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