[intake · publishers weekly · 2025-12-23]
Authors File New Lawsuit Against AI Companies Seeking More Money
Six authors including Pulitzer-winner John Carreyrou filed individual copyright suits against Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, Meta, xAI, and Perplexity, claiming the companies used pirated ebooks from LibGen-style sites to train AI without permission. Plaintiffs seek $150,000 per work against each defendant, calling the $1.5B Bartz settlement of $3,000/work insufficient.
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