- 44 of 49 cases (90%) remain active. Only 5 have gone inactive, and none through a clean merits ruling. - 13 cases filed in 2023, 12 in 2024, 15 in 2025, and already 9 in just the first four months of 2026. Half of all OpenAI litigation (24 of 49) was filed in 2025–2026. - 18 of 49 cases (37%) are in the Southern District of New York, with N.D. Cal. a distant second at 8. - 34 cases plead copyright infringement, but plaintiffs are stacking claims: 15 plead "Misuse of AI" as a quasi-tort, 11 unjust enrichment, 8 unfair competition, 8 negligence. - 12 cases plead removal of copyright management information, which carries statutory damages of $2,500–$25,000 per violation with no need to prove market harm. - Four California design-defect / wrongful-death cases (Raine, Shamblin, Lacey in late 2025; DeCruise in Jan 2026) plead products-liability theories tied to ChatGPT outputs. - Five cases (Britannica, U.S. News, Ziff Davis, Daily News, NYT) plead trademark theories alongside copyright. - Authors (19) and news/media publishers (12) remain the two largest groups, but privacy plaintiffs (5), defamation plaintiffs (2), and products-liability cluster is emerging. - 10 of 49 cases are filed outside the US — Germany (Munich x2), Korea (Seoul x2), Canada (Ontario x2, Quebec), Brazil (São Paulo), India (Delhi), Poland (Warsaw). - Microsoft is co-defendant in nearly a quarter of cases (12 of 49). Data source: https://blogs.gwu.edu/law-eti/ai-litigation-database/