Apple has filed another class action lawsuit over alleged copyright infringement

After only about a month of existence Accused of using hackers Books for AI training Apple faces another similar class action lawsuit. As I mentioned for the first time before Bloomberg LawTwo neuroscience professors from SUNY Downstate Health Sciences in Brooklyn, New York, claimed that Apple used “their registered works without authorization.” Neuroscientists Susana Martinez Conde and Stephen Macnick said Apple trained its AI models using “shadow libraries” and “web crawlers” that provide access to pirated and copyrighted books, including two of its own.

In the previous class action lawsuit, a separate pair of authors also alleged that Apple committed copyright infringement when using published works to train Apple Intelligence models without consent. Apple isn’t the only tech giant facing copyright lawsuits related to its AI, as OpenAI is in hot water. Similar situation After filing a lawsuit against him New York Times for similar accusations. Although these AI models are relatively new, there is already a case in which they may have set some precedent. Earlier this year, Anthropic It settled a class action lawsuit by agreeing to pay $1.5 billion to 500,000 authors involved in the case, which revolved around copyright claims.