Generative AI Litigation

Practice Overview

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) has become a cornerstone of innovation across numerous industries. These AI technologies can produce images, audio, computer code, and text, and have the potential to revolutionize production processes, enhance efficiency, and unlock cost savings. However, this new technology raises profound questions about intellectual property, creator rights, ethical use of digital content, and harm caused by Generative AI in the real world.

The heart of the matter lies in the technology’s reliance on pre-existing works — often without explicit consent from the original creators. This practice has sparked significant legal and economic disputes, highlighting the need for a nuanced approach to AI governance.

LGN is committed to protecting individuals, consumers, and creators. We file cases against companies that are taking advantage of generative AI technology to the detriment of real people.

Generative AI: A New Frontier in Legal Practice

LGN represents a diverse clientele, from individual artists and writers to corporations, navigating the intricacies of copyright law, antitrust law, and other areas of law in the context of AI. We work with our clients to understand the specific ways in which generative AI impacts their work, crafting tailored legal strategies that defend their rights and set precedents for fair use and ethical AI development.

Defending Creators and Promoting Fair Competition

Our work includes pushing for clearer regulations that address the nuances of AI-generated content, advocating for systems that ensure fair compensation and recognition for original creators, and challenging the use of generative AI when it crosses the line into exploitation. For creators who find their work replicated, remixed, or utilized without consent, the infringement on their rights and livelihoods presents a critical legal dilemma.

Always Thinking Ahead

As generative AI continues to evolve, so does the landscape of legal practice. At LGN, we are committed to staying at the forefront of this evolution, ensuring that our clients are protected in today’s digital age and beyond. Our goal is not only to address the legal challenges posed by generative AI today but to shape the future of how these technologies are integrated into our society, always with an eye toward justice and equity for creators.

Current Litigation

Stability AI

LGN represents a group of visual artists who filed an amended copyright lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney, Deviant Art, and Runway for misusing their work to train generative artificial intelligence systems. We are pursuing a case that will ensure artists’ rights can no longer be ignored by the creators of these products.

Stability AI Complaint

NVIDIA

LGN represents a group of authors alleging that chipmaker Nvidia Corp. built its large language model “NeMo Megatron-GPT” on a library of pirated digital ebooks. Plaintiffs own registered copyrights in certain books that were included in the training dataset without Plaintiffs’ consent, credit, or compensation.

NVIDIA Corporation Complaint

DATABRICKS

LGN represents a group of authors alleging copyright infringement against the software firm Databricks Inc. and its subsidiary, MosaicML. Defendants distribute a series of large language models built on a library of pirated digital ebooks. Plaintiffs own registered copyrights in certain books that were included in the training dataset without Plaintiffs’ consent, credit, or compensation.

Databricks Complaint

IMAGEN

LGN represents a group of visual artists who claimed the Alphabet (GOOGL.O), unit used their work without permission to train Imagen, its artificial-intelligence-powered image generator.

Reuters Article

Practice Professionals

To learn more about the new and complex landscape of generative AI class actions and individual lawsuits, we invite you to contact us to schedule an evaluation with a member of our team.