Provenance, Copyright & Lawyers

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There is an issue with provenance of the training metadata. For most LLMs use cases generating revenue today:

here are some court cases that were current in September 2025

By Against In For
Getty Images Stability AI UK & US ~ $1,700M
Authors class action → (settlement) — United States Anthropic USA ~ $1,500M
NY Times & others OpenAI / Microsoft USA $150k per work
Encyclopaedia Britannica Perplexity AI USA not disclosed
Disney, NBCU, WBD MiniMax USA/China not disclosed
Japanese news Perplexity AI Japan ¥2.2 billion (≈ $15M)
Artists Midjourney et al USA / UK not disclosed
Canadian news OpenAI Canada not disclosed

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