Individual Action
Advance Local Media v. Cohere
DiscoveryNot a class action
Advance Local Media LLC, et al. v. Cohere Inc.
Where it stands
Judge Colleen McMahon denied Cohere's partial motion to dismiss on November 13, 2025, sustaining direct and secondary copyright infringement and the Lanham Act claims and pushing the case into merits discovery.
Key ruling
Nov. 13, 2025 — the court held that AI-generated news summaries and close paraphrases can be infringing and that hallucinated articles bearing publisher marks plausibly create a likelihood of confusion.
The record
- Court
- S.D.N.Y.
- Case number
- 1:25-cv-01305
- Filed
- 2025-02-13
- Defendants
- Cohere Inc.
- Plaintiffs
- A coalition of news and magazine publishers (Advance Local, Condé Nast, The Atlantic, Forbes, Guardian, McClatchy, Vox Media and others) — corporate plaintiffs, not a class
- Technology at issue
- Cohere Command models and Cohere's North/RAG products
- Relief sought
- Statutory damages and an injunction against copying publisher content into training data and RAG outputs
Claims pleaded
Sources (3)
- Advance Local Media LLC v. Cohere Inc.Loeb & Loeb LLP · 2025-11-13
- News publishers sue Cohere for copyright and trademark infringementAxios · 2025-02-13
- Judge Denies Cohere Motion to Dismiss in News Media Industry Lawsuit Against AI TheftNews/Media Alliance · 2025-11-14
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