Giant technology company Apple is being sued by the authors due to its illegal usage of their copyrighted books in training of its artificial intelligence systems. Recently the battle over the protection of intellectual property in the AI area has been more common.
The proposed class action, filed in the federal court in Northern California, detailed Apple copying protected works without permission or credit and also not compensating the creators.
“Apple has not attempted to pay these authors for their contributions to this potentially lucrative venture,” as reported the lawsuit, filed by authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson.
Apple and lawyers for the plaintiffs did not promptly respond to comment requests on Friday.
The lawsuit against Apple was filed due to their usage of pirated books for their “OpenELM” large language models training.
This lawsuit is the latest among the abundance of cases filed by the authors, news outlets and others accusing big technology companies because of their illegal use of their works.
Another recent example of these lawsuits was the Microsoft case in June. Microsoft was taken to court by a group of authors, who claimed the company used their books without permission to train its artificial intelligence model named Megatron.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-sued-by-authors-over-use-books-ai-training-2025-09-05/
