On May 2, 2024, the law firm of Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel filed two new copyright lawsuits against AI companies. Both are proposed class actions in the Northern District of California.
Dubus III v. Nvidia: Authors of books allege their books were used without permission in training Nvidia’s AI model NeMo based on the use of the ‘The Pile’ dataset prepared by EleutherAI.
Makkai v. Databricks and Mosaic ML: Authors of books allege their books were used without permission in training Mosaic ML’s AI model based on the use of the “RedPajama—Books” dataset, which is allegedly a copy of the Books3 dataset, including The Pile, compiled by EleutherAI.
This brings the total number of copyright lawsuits against AI companies to 24.
These 2 new lawsuits are very similar to the allegations in 2 earlier lawsuits already filed against the same three defendants. The plaintiffs in the earlier cases are represented by the Joseph Saveri Law FIrm and Lockridge Grindal Nauen PLLP. Consolidation of these cases should follow.