- Parties: The plaintiff was 2Mark Gagné. The defendants were Stability AI Ltd, Midjourney, Inc., Google LLC, and Runway AI, Inc.

- Subject Matter: This Federal Court matter involves a proposed class action for copyright infringement under sections 3 and 27 of the Copyright Act, RSC 1985, c C-42, brought by a Canadian visual artist on behalf of a class of Canadian artists against four AI image generator companies. The plaintiff alleges that the defendants downloaded and copied millions of copyrighted images from the LAION-400M and LAION-5B datasets without permission to train their commercial diffusion models, and that the resulting image generators reproduce copyrighted works and mimic artists' distinctive styles. The case is ongoing.

- Date: The hearing was set on February 09, 2026.

- Venue: This was a federal case before the Federal Court.

- Amount: No financial award was specified.