Overview

• Authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson filed a proposed class action in federal court in Northern California alleging Apple trained OpenELM on their copyrighted books without consent or compensation.
• The complaint cites Apple's OpenELM research materials that reference RedPajama, which incorporates the Books3 collection of pirated books the authors say includes their works.
• Requested relief includes class certification, statutory and compensatory damages, disgorgement, attorneys’ fees, an injunction, and destruction of any models and training sets built with the disputed data.
• Apple and lawyers for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the lawsuit.
• The filing arrives as AI copyright cases deliver split results, with Anthropic disclosing a $1.5 billion settlement and a recent ruling finding Meta’s training practices to be fair use.