Complaint says Filed Friday in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California, San Francisco.
The author claims that Apple used a software program called Applebot to scrape down data from a “shadow library” such as Books3. The author’s novels are included in pirated libraries and are therefore used to develop Apple’s AI without its consent.
“Apple did not attempt to pay these authors,” the complaint read. “Apple did not seek permission to copy and use copyrighted books provided by its models. Instead, it intentionally evaded payments by using books compiled in the pirated dataset.”
Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Such data sources are very valuable to companies that develop AI models. They need a lot of high-quality, artificially created content to improve AI models to make them sound more coherent and human. However, negotiating with creators and paying to access their work can be expensive and time-consuming, which is why we see so many copyright infringement lawsuits.
Claude-Maker Anthropic announced it will Pay $1.5 billion to authors In a collective action piracy lawsuit, each piracy work is about $3,000. It originated from a similar copyright case that won some cases where the judge ruled that humans’ use of copyrighted materials is justified. Two days after the initial ruling, Yuan won Similar situations.
(Disclosure: CNET’s parent company Ziff Davis filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in April, accusing Ziff Davis of infringing on Ziff Davis’ copyright in training and operating its AI system.)
Copyright is The most important and controversial legal issues Suitable for AI companies and creators. While some tech companies have reached multi-million dollar deals with publishers to access their content, others have eliminated them in such cases. Tech companies have been struggling to make fair use of exceptions, a legal concept in copyright law that allows people to use copyrighted content, such as education or journalism without the permission of the right holder. Creators are struggling to ensure that AI companies are not allowed to ignore decades of copyright law prerequisites, just to avoid paying them a licensing fee and to ensure that they have the potential to opt out of using their work to train AI systems.
Apple released on its AI last year Annual WWDC Developer Conference. iPhone maker enters the slow entrance to the AI race, marking the Intelligent Siri that delays its promise. By contrast, Samsung, Google and Motorola phones are all Gemini and other AI pick-full- Good or bad – Apple’s main AI tool is the ability to use Chatgpt through Siri voice commands.
But even existing Apple intelligence features have come under fire. Elon Musk filed lawsuit Earlier this summer, Apple and Chatgpt’s parent company OpenAI accused the deal of a “anti-competitive program” to block other AI products, such as Musk’s own Grok.
All of this was a few days ago Apple’s annual fall eventexpected to give up iPhone 17. For Apple and its fans, this is the biggest event of the year, next-generation software, iOS 26expected to drop for all iPhone users within a few days after the event ends. Any AI news we hear tomorrow “Awe” incident It may arise in the future development of this lawsuit.
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