Microsoft and OpenAI are “purloining” millions of copyrighted newspaper articles without permission and without payment to “fuel the commercialization” of their generative AI products, including ChatGPT and Copilot, alleged eight major local newspapers in a copyright infringement suit Tuesday (docket 1:24-cv-03285) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan. A similar New York Times lawsuit has been pending against Microsoft and OpenAI in the same court since Dec. 27 (see 2312270044).

Communications Litigation Today is tracking the below lawsuits involving appeals of FCC actions. Cases marked with an * were terminated since the last update. Cases in bold are new since the last update.

IT and cybersecurity firm ReachOut is suing former RedGear principals Luciano Aguayo and Armando Gonzalez over “misconduct” following its October purchase of the IT services company, said a fraud complaint (docket 1:24-cv-03408) in U.S. District Court for Eastern Illinois in Chicago. The plaintiff seeks compensation for past frauds and to stop Aguayo’s “ongoing misappropriation” of ReachOut funds, it said.

Four complaints filed Friday allege plaintiffs’ car insurance rates increased as a result of General Motor’s OnStar connected car technology sharing information with LexisNexis, which sold GM customers’ driving behavior data to car insurance companies without their knowledge or consent. Two also named Verisk Analytics as a defendant that buys GM’s data.

Three illustrators and a photographer sued Google Friday, alleging its Imagen AI text-to-image diffusion model used a dataset for training that contains their copyrighted works, said the Friday class action (docket 3:24-cv-02531) in U.S. District Court for Northern California in San Francisco.

The League of Women Voters seeks a preliminary injunction barring defendants Steve Kramer, broadband provider Lingo Telecom and robocall broadcaster Life Corp. from producing, generating or distributing AI-generated robocalls impersonating any person, without that person’s express, prior written consent, said its motion Friday (docket 1:24-cv-00073) in U.S. District Court for New Hampshire in Concord.

The Republican National Committee relies on its “tortured reading” of the 9th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court’s 2023 opinion in Trim v. Reward Zone to “rewrite” the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and “overturn” 15 years of 9th Circuit precedent, said plaintiff-appellant Jacob Howard’s reply brief Friday (docket 23-3826) in support of his appeal to reverse the dismissal of his TCPA case (see 2402080021).

MaxLinear’s “opportunistic” motion to dismiss Comcast’s third amended complaint should be denied, said Comcast’s memorandum of law Wednesday (docket 1:23-cv-04436) in U.S. District Court for Southern New York in Manhattan in support of its opposition to the motion.

Despite advertising that consumers can “pay any bill” using its “purportedly vast payment ‘network of billers,’” third-party bill payment platform Doxo “has no relationship with the overwhelming majority of billers in its supposed ‘network,'” the FTC alleged in a Thursday complaint (docket 2:24-cv-00569) in U.S. District Court for Western Washington in Seattle. The lawsuit names Doxo, CEO Steve Shivers and Vice President Roger Parks.

Quantum Metric’s (QM) “wiretapping” of CVS website visitors' electronic communications violates California and Pennsylvania privacy statutes, a class action against the data firm (docket 1:24-cv-01154) alleged Thursday in U.S. District Court for Colorado in Denver.