Summary
Mike Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor, and other religious authors sued Meta Platforms, Inc., Bloomberg L.P., Bloomberg Finance L.P., Microsoft Corporation, and EleutherAI Institute, alleging they trained large language models on the plaintiffs' copyrighted books without permission using the unauthorized Books3 dataset.[2][5] The suit asserts direct and vicarious copyright infringement under the Copyright Act as a proposed class action, originally filed December 28, 2023, in the Northern District of California before severance and transfer of claims, including a Delaware privacy suit against Meta dismissed November 18, 2024.[1][3][5] Plaintiffs claim the models and their outputs are infringing derivative works essential to defendants' profitable AI products.[2][5]
Case details
- Court
- NDCA
- Docket number
- 3:23-cv-06663
- Filed
- Dec 28, 2023
- Status
- Active
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