DMCA Section 1201 Litigation Tracker

Tracking significant Digital Millennium Copyright Act Section 1201 lawsuits involving data scraping, AI, and related disputes across federal courts. 

For more information about the latest DMCA cases, please see our blog, DMCA Section 1201 Claims: The New Battleground for AI and Data Scraping Litigation.   |  As of 5/26/2026

Case Name	Filing Date	Jurisdiction	Status
Ted Entertainment, Inc. v. OpenAI Inc.	2026-04-03	N.D. Cal.	Complaint filed 4/3/2026. Initial case management conference set for 8/27/2026.
Ted Entertainment, Inc. v. Apple Inc.	2026-04-03	N.D. Cal.	Complaint filed 4/3/2026. Initial case management conference set for 8/20/2026.
Ted Entertainment, Inc. v. Amazon.com Inc.	2026-04-03	W.D. Wash.	Complaint filed 4/3/2026.
Businessing LLC v. Runway AI, Inc.	2026-02-27	S.D.N.Y.	See Ace Cam Inc. v. Runway AI, Inc.
Gardner v. Runway AI, Inc.	2026-02-23	C.D. Cal.	By stipulation, response to complaint to be filed 5/25/2026. Stipulation to transfer to S.D.N.Y. filed.
Chmura v. Snap Inc.	2026-02-18	C.D. Cal.	See Ted Entertainment, Inc. v. Snap Inc.
Ace Cam Inc. v. Runway AI, Inc.	2026-02-18	S.D.N.Y.	Consolidated with Businessing LLC v. Runway AI, Inc., Case No. 1:26-cv-01655-LAK (S.D.N.Y.) 3/27/2026. Consolidated class action complaint filed 4/27/2026.
Ted Entertainment, Inc. v. Snap Inc.	2026-01-23	C.D. Cal.	Consolidated with Chmura v. Snap, Inc., Case No. 2:26-CV-01732 (C.D. Cal.) 4/15/2026. Motion to dismiss consolidated complaint set for hearing on 7/10/2026.
Ted Entertainment, Inc. v. Meta Platforms, Inc.	2025-12-23	N.D. Cal.	Motion to dismiss amended complaint, hearing set for 07/09/2026. Case management conference set for 7/28/2026.
Ted Entertainment, Inc. v. ByteDance Inc.	2025-12-23	N.D. Cal.	Amended complaint filed 4/13/2026. Deadline to file motion to dismiss set for 7/27/2026.
Google LLC v. SerpApi, LLC	2025-12-19	N.D. Cal.	Motion to dismiss filed 2/20/2026, hearing vacated. Motion to stay discovery filed 3/23/2026, hearing vacated and not yet reset.
Attack the Sound LLC v. Kunlun Tech Co., LTD	2025-12-17	N.D. Ill.	Status report due 8/7/2026. No answer or motion to dismiss has been filed.
Ted Entertainment, Inc. v. Nvidia Corp.	2025-11-26	N.D. Cal.	Motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim filed 4/6/2026, hearing set for 7/23/2026.
Reddit, Inc. v. SerpAPI LLC	2025-10-22	S.D.N.Y.	Amended complaint filed 2/6/2026. Motion to dismiss filed 3/13/2026, hearing scheduled for 7/23/2026.
Woulard v. Suno, Inc.	2025-10-16	N.D. Ill.	Complaint amended 12/8/2025. Motion to dismiss filed 1/13/2026, hearing set for 5/28/2026. Motion to stay discovery granted 3/10/2026.
Woulard v. Uncharted Labs, Inc.	2025-10-15	N.D. Ill.	Motion to dismiss filed 2/6/2026, court will hear motion on 7/15/2026.
Justice v. Uncharted Labs, Inc.	2025-06-16	S.D.N.Y.	Complaint amended 10/27/2025. Motion to dismiss filed 12/1/2025, denied as to Section 1201 claim on 5/21/2026.
UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Uncharted Labs, Inc.	2024-06-25	S.D.N.Y.	Complaint filed 6/25/2024 for copyright infringement of sound recordings used to train AI models. Answer filed 8/1/2024, special master appointed 12/5/2024. Motion to dismiss circumvention of technological measures denied 4/15/2026. Next status conference 7/10/2026.
UMG Recordings, Inc. v. Suno, Inc.	2024-06-24	D. Mass.	Complaint filed 6/24/2024 for copyright infringement of sound recordings used to train AI models. Answer filed 8/1/2024. Status conference held 5/4/2026, discovery disputes ongoing as well as review on plaintiffs’ motion to amend.
Justice v. Suno, Inc.	2024-06-14	D. Mass.	Complaint amended 9/22/2025. Hearing on motion to dismiss for failure to state a claim heard 3/20/2026, ordering pending.
Yout, LLC v. Recording Indus. Assoc. of Am., Inc.	2022-10-25	2d Cir.	Opening brief filed 2/2/2023 seeking reversal of order granting motion to dismiss based on conclusion that Yout’s platform was a circumvention tool. Hearing took place February 5, 2024. Currently under review.