Chicken Soup for the Soul v. Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, Perplexity, Apple and NVIDIA: one publisher sues eight AI developers over pirated books
Statutory damages per work, to be set by a jury; no amount stated
Dated 17 Mar 2026Source checked 17 Mar 2026Page out of reach at the last check, 22 Oct 2026Basis: stated
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“Anthropic, Google, OpenAI, Meta, xAI, Apple, Perplexity, and NVIDIA, illegally copied vast quantities of copyrighted books without permission and then used those stolen copies to build and train their commercial large language models (“LLMs”) and/or optimize their product.”
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