ai copyright case documents

66+ ai copyright cases. court docs, zipped up, on s3.

list of cases from ai cases bot
docket info from court listener api
documents retrieved directly from courtlistener s3

free law project does the hard work. this just packages it and makes it easy to get the current, complete document set.

quick access

case analyses

bartz v. anthropic: discovery battles and settlement implications - detailed analysis of the first major ai training copyright case to settle, revealing how anthropic handled (or failed to handle) discovery about claude’s training data. includes timeline, document analysis, and implications for the industry.

why

court docs are scattered everywhere. this puts them in one place.

what’s in there

openai, microsoft, meta, stability, anthropic cases. complaints, motions, orders, the usual.

download

# all (~14gb)
aws s3 sync s3://michaelbommarito.com/resources/ai-copyright/cases/ ./ai-cases/

# one
aws s3 cp s3://michaelbommarito.com/resources/ai-copyright/cases/new-york-times-v-openai-docket-67810023.zip .

search examples

# fair use mentions
unzip -p ai-cases/*.zip | pdfgrep -i "fair use"

# extract text
for zip in ai-cases/*.zip; do
    unzip -j "$zip" -d temp/
    pdftotext temp/*.pdf
done

tooling

ai_cases_manager.py - fetches from court listener, zips, uploads.

# run everything
uv run public/scripts/ai_cases_manager.py pipeline --aws-profile your-profile

# check status
uv run public/scripts/ai_cases_manager.py status