Summary
Authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson sued Apple Inc., alleging the company trained its Apple Intelligence AI models on their copyrighted books and others without permission using pirated datasets like Books3.[1][2][3][4] The case invokes the Copyright Act for infringement (17 U.S.C. § 501) in a proposed class action filed September 5, 2025, in NDCA (3:25-cv-07558), consolidated on November 14, 2025, with Martinez-Conde v. Apple Inc. and Alexander v. Apple Inc., with interim co-lead counsel appointed January 30, 2026.[1][4] Plaintiffs seek statutory damages, injunctive relief, disgorgement, and destruction of training data, as one of nearly 50 similar AI copyright suits and the first against Apple by book authors.[2][3][5]
Case details
- Court
- NDCA
- Docket number
- 4:25-cv-07558
- Filed
- Sep 5, 2025
- Status
- Active
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