A group of big tech companies convinced a federal judge to split up authors\u2019 copyright lawsuit accusing them of pirating books to build artificial intelligence models.<\/p>\n
The authors\u2019 allegation that Anthropic PBC, Google LLC, Apple Inc., Nvidia Corp., Perplexity AI Inc., and xAI Corp. used the same library of pirated books to infringe isn\u2019t sufficient to lump all of the companies into one lawsuit, Judge P. Casey Pitts of the US District Court for the Northern District of California ruled<\/a> Monday. The lawsuit will proceed against Anthropic, and claims against the other companies are severed into five separate actions.<\/p>\n There are no allegations of conspiracy that could justify joinder for the \u201cbusiness rivals seeking to corner the LLM market,\u201d Pitts addedThe works at issue include Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Carreyrou\u2019s book about Elizabeth Holmes\u2019 infamous health technology company TheranosMeta Platforms Inc. and OpenAI Inc. were initially named defendants<\/a>, but the claims against Meta were related to<\/a> an existing case in the same district court, and those against OpenAI were severed and added to multidistrict litigation against the AI giant in New York<\/p>\n Google is represented by Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Sullivan & Cromwell LLP represents xAI. Perplexity is represented by Mayer Brown LLP. Latham & Watkins LLP represents Apple. Nvidia is represented by Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP. White & Case LLP represents Anthropic.<\/p>\n The authors are represented by Freedman Normand Friedland LLP and Stris & Maher LLP.<\/p>\n