Canadian Author Sues Four AI Companies for Copyright Infringement

6 months ago

MacKinnon, author of The 100-Mile Diet and The Once and Future World, serves as the representative plaintiff in separate suits he filed in B.C. Supreme Court against Nvidia, Meta, Anthropic, and Databricks Inc. The cases target what MacKinnon described as unauthorized use of copyrighted material in developing large language models.

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J.B. MacKinnon

The lawsuit claims MacKinnon’s books were part of a 196,640-book dataset that Nvidia used without securing licensing fees or author consent. “This isn’t a situation where some copyrighted material appears as a small fraction of the larger process,” MacKinnon told the CBC. “The models were entirely built on the mining of copyrighted work.”

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Canadian Author Sues Four AI Companies for Copyright Infringement

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