Class Action
Vacker v. ElevenLabs
SettledClass claims present
Vacker, et al. v. ElevenLabs, Inc.
Where it stands
The parties told the court in August 2025 that they had reached a settlement following mediation; proceedings were stayed on October 6, 2025 and the case was dismissed and closed on November 8, 2025 — the first settlement in the US AI copyright wave.
What is not confirmed
Settlement terms and any dollar amount were not disclosed; the precise claim set (copyright vs. contract vs. right-of-publicity counts that survived) was not confirmed against the operative complaint.The record
- Court
- D. Del.
- Case number
- 1:24-cv-00987
- Filed
- 2024-08-29
- Defendants
- ElevenLabs, Inc.
- Plaintiffs
- Voice actors whose recorded voices were allegedly used without consent to train ElevenLabs' voice-cloning models
- Technology at issue
- ElevenLabs text-to-speech / voice cloning models
- Relief sought
- Damages and injunctive relief for unauthorized use of voice recordings in training data
Claims pleaded
Sources (3)
- Vacker v. Eleven Labs is officially settled and closedChat GPT Is Eating the World · 2025-11-08
- Parties in Vacker v. Eleven Labs tell judge they've reached a settlement. 1st in the AI copyright litigation.Chat GPT Is Eating the World · 2025-08-23
- Status of all 57 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 26, 2025)Chat GPT Is Eating the World · 2025-10-26
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