Summary
Two neuroscientists, Susana Martinez-Conde and Stephen Macknik, allege that Apple trained its Apple Intelligence AI model on their copyrighted books without permission by using the Books3 pirated dataset, along with thousands of other authors' works. The plaintiffs assert copyright infringement under the Copyright Act and claim willful infringement, seeking statutory damages, actual damages, disgorgement of profits, and destruction of infringing models. The case was filed in October 2025 in the Northern District of California and was consolidated in November 2025 with two related actions (Hendrix v. Apple and Alexander v. Apple) into a single class action, with the potential class representing all authors whose registered works were used to train the model.
Case details
- Court
- NDCA
- Docket number
- 4:25-cv-08695
- Filed
- Oct 9, 2025
- Status
- Active
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