Cambronne, the company owning book author John Carreyrou’s copyrights, filed an opposition to the defendants’ motion to sever the case into individual suits against each defendant.
This omnibus copyright lawsuit is basically against the U.S. AI industry:
- Anthropic
- OpenAI
- Meta
- xAI (Elon Musk’s company)
- Perplexity AI
- Apple
- NVIDIA
Most of the defendants have moved to sever the case into individual ones.
But Cambronne contends the omnibus lawsuit against the defendants should remain intact because they all allegedly trained their AI models using books from shadow libraries. Whether that’s enough to join defendants is the question Judge Pitts will soon decide.
One thing is for sure: it would be a spectacle — and Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Dario Amodei would all be on the same side!
Plaintiffs’ Opposition
This case arises from a single, industry-wide course of conduct: the systematic use of pirated “shadow libraries” to acquire copyrighted books and train and fuel their generative AI models without authorization. Plaintiffs allege that each Defendant—though competitors—participated in the same underlying scheme by drawing from the same interconnected ecosystem of piracy repositories, including LibGen, Z-Library, Bibliotik, and derivative datasets such as Books3 and The Pile. Am. Compl. ¶¶ 45–189.
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DOWNLOAD CAMBRONNE’S OPPOSITION TO MOTION TO SEVER CASE
