CLAIM-2026-08-31-03
The complaint pleads copyright infringement and removal or alteration of copyright management information under 17 U.S.C. 1202, seeking statutory damages of up to $150,000 per willfully infringed work and up to $25,000 per CMI violation.
Why it matters
The CMI count is the part practitioners miss: it attaches to stripping metadata, not to training.
Sources
- usdistrictc2026complaint