Summary
Authors John Carreyrou, Lisa Barretta, Philip Shishkin, Jane Adams, Matthew Sacks, and Michael Kochin sued Anthropic PBC, Google LLC, OpenAI OpCo LLC, Meta Platforms Inc., and others, alleging their books were used without permission to train AI models.[1][3][4] The case asserts copyright infringement under federal law in the Northern District of California (3:25-cv-10897-TLT), filed December 22, 2025, with Anthropic moving to dismiss in February 2026 on grounds including failure to allege inclusion in the Books3 dataset and statute of limitations.[1][2][3] Plaintiffs opted out of the Bartz v. Anthropic class settlement, amid related fair use rulings favoring AI training in that case and against Meta.[2][3][5]
Case details
- Court
- NDCA
- Docket number
- 3:25-cv-10897
- Filed
- Dec 22, 2025
- Status
- Active
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