As of 5 October 2026.
This dossier collects lawsuits and copyright reports. Each entry is one sentence from the original report. Where that report stays indexed, the link points to it.
Timeline
- 10 July 2026. Times, Daily News and other US publishers accuse OpenAI of concealing evidence in the copyright dispute and demand court sanctions.
- 10 July 2026. GEMA Wins Music Lawsuit Against Suno in Munich Court. Munich Regional Court ruled for GEMA against Suno over AI music, imposing a licensing duty for six works. The Sony Music v. Suno case in Boston continues.
- 10 July 2026. Google: Court holds company liable for AI errors. The Munich District Court orders Google to cease false AI fraud allegations against a publisher – a second ruling confirms the trend.
- 11 July 2026. The iPhone company accuses the ChatGPT manufacturer of systematically stealing hardware secrets through former employees.
- 16 July 2026. The US publishers accuse the Google corporation of having trained Gemini without permission using millions of protected books.
- 18 July 2026. A data leak at Suno reveals how the AI music service systematically collected copyrighted content.
- 21 July 2026. Have I Been Pwned confirms names, addresses, and payment data on a large scale – Suno describes it as a limited incident.
- 1 August 2026. GEMA wins Munich ruling: licensing duty for Suno. The Munich District Court I rules in favor of GEMA: Suno violates German copyright law by training and reproducing six songs.
- 5 August 2026. Perplexity wins appeal against Amazon ban for Comet. A U.S. appeals court overturns the injunction that Amazon had obtained against Perplexity's AI shopping assistant Comet.
- 7 August 2026. After billions of lawsuits and a Munich court ruling, the AI music service tightens rules for downloads, copyright protection, and user accounts.
- 30 August 2026. Sony and Warner sue Anthropic for up to $150,000 per song. The music publishers accuse the AI company of using compositions from illegal file-sharing sites to train Claude.
- 10 September 2026. The US provider of legal AI increases its valuation after fresh capital and acquires Guardrails AI, a specialist in agent controls.
- 13 September 2026. Copilot Chat creates Planner tasks – but only with Copilot license. Microsoft expands Copilot Chat with Planner features: tasks and deadlines can be managed via text input, without switching apps.
- 24 September 2026. With the legal AI Noxtua, a second specialist publisher, Manz, is joining, while several previous investors are selling their shares.
What this means for companies in Germany
For publishers and music rights, the linked rulings are the record. Entries without a link replace the separate report.
