United States of America: United States Northern District Court of California granted partial motion to dismiss in lawsuit alleging Google's copyright infringement in training AI models

On 11 September 2025, the United States Northern District Court of California partially granted Google's motion to dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit. Ten visual artists and authors sued Google and Alphabet for allegedly using their copyrighted works to train Artificial Intelligence (AI) models without authorisation. The Court dismissed claims against ten AI models, including Codey, Chirp, Veo, MedLM, LearnLM, SecLM, Gemma, CodeGemma, RecurrentGemma, and PaliGemma since the plaintiffs failed to connect their works to these models' training datasets. The Court also dismissed all vicarious liability claims against Alphabet, ruling that parent companies cannot be held liable for subsidiaries' copyright infringement based solely on corporate control. It was stated that claims against six other AI models including PaLM, GLaM, LaMDA, Bard, Gemini, and Imagen will proceed. Plaintiffs must file an amended complaint within 14 days, after which Google has 21 days to respond.