Summary
Authors Abdi Nazemian, Brian Keene, and Stewart O'Nan allege that NVIDIA copied their copyrighted books without permission as part of training datasets for its NeMo AI model, including material from the Books3 dataset sourced from the Bibliotik shadow library containing nearly 197,000 unlicensed books. The plaintiffs assert direct copyright infringement under the Copyright Act, with the case proceeding as a putative class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California (Case No. 24-01454), with Judge Jon S. Tigar presiding. The class seeks unspecified damages for all U.S. copyright holders whose works were used to train NeMo within the past three years; the case is part of a broader wave of author litigation against AI companies over training data sourcing, and
Case details
- Court
- NDCA
- Docket number
- 4:24-cv-01454
- Filed
- Mar 8, 2024
- Status
- Active
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