OverDrive filed suit against OpenAI in a Northern Ohio Federal Court on Wednesday, alleging infringement of their trademark for the Sora brand, along with charges of unfair competition and deceptive trade practices. OverDrive’s Sora app for schools has been in use for over seven years, and was trademarked in 2022, while OpenAI’s Sora is their text-to-image creator first launched in December 2024. OverDrive writes in their complaint: “OpenAI’s recently launched AI text-to-video generation software app under the exact same name, Sora, using a confusingly similar icon, color palette, and visual identity, infringes OverDrive’s trademark rights and damages the integrity of […]
