Copy/Paste Copyright Suits by Authors Continue

September 12, 2023

United StatesU.S. Judicial & Administrative Decisions

Summary

New complaints were filed by a group of authors against OpenAI and Meta in the Northern District of California on September 8 and 12, 2023, respectively. These complaints were nearly identical—containing only minor differences in phrasing—to those filed by a group of authors including Sarah Silverman. These new cases make the same allegations around training large language models with copyrighted material, including use of the books' data set.

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