Summary
Chicken Soup for the Soul, LLC sued Meta Platforms Inc. and other AI companies including Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, xAI, Perplexity, Apple, and Nvidia, alleging they downloaded and copied hundreds of its copyrighted books from shadow library websites like Library Genesis without authorization to train large language models.[2][5][6] The claims are brought under the Copyright Act for infringement via unauthorized ingestion of works.[2][5] In a related case, claims against defendants were severed except for Meta due to improper joinder, with Meta's claims linked to ongoing cases Kadrey v. Meta and Entrepreneur Media v. Meta before Judge Chhabria.[1][5]
Case details
- Court
- NDCA
- Docket number
- 5:26-cv-02333
- Filed
- Mar 17, 2026
- Status
- Active
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