--- title: "Apple sued by authors over use of books in AI training" description: "Apple is facing a lawsuit from authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, who accuse the company of illegally using their copyrighted books to train its AI systems without consent or compensation. F" type: "news" locale: "en" url: "https://longbridge.com/en/news/256191988.md" published_at: "2025-09-05T22:01:00.000Z" --- # Apple sued by authors over use of books in AI training > Apple is facing a lawsuit from authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson, who accuse the company of illegally using their copyrighted books to train its AI systems without consent or compensation. Filed in Northern California, the class action highlights a growing trend of legal challenges against tech companies over intellectual property rights in AI. This follows similar lawsuits against Microsoft and Anthropic, the latter recently settling for $1.5 billion over similar claims. The lawsuit alleges Apple used a dataset of pirated books for its AI model, OpenELM. By Mike Scarcella Sept 5 (Reuters) - Technology giant Apple (AAPL.O) was accused by authors in a lawsuit on Friday of illegally using their copyrighted books to help train its artificial intelligence systems, part of an expanding legal fight over protections for intellectual property in the AI era. The proposed class action, filed in the federal court in Northern California, said Apple copied protected works without consent and without credit or compensation. “Apple has not attempted to pay these authors for their contributions to this potentially lucrative venture,” according to the lawsuit, filed by authors Grady Hendrix and Jennifer Roberson. Apple and lawyers for the plaintiffs did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Friday. The lawsuit is the latest in a wave of cases from authors, news outlets and others accusing major technology companies of violating legal protections for their works. Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic on Friday disclosed in a court filing in California that it agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class action from a group of authors who accused the company of using their books to train its AI chatbot Claude without permission. Anthropic did not admit any liability in the accord, which lawyers for the plaintiffs called the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history. In June, Microsoft (MSFT.O) was hit with a lawsuit by a group of authors who claimed the company used their books without permission to train its Megatron artificial intelligence model. Meta Platforms (META.O) and Microsoft (MSFT.O) -backed OpenAI also have faced claims over the alleged misuse of copyrighted material in AI training. The lawsuit against Apple accused the company of using a known body of pirated books to train its “OpenELM” large language models. Hendrix, who lives in New York, and Roberson in Arizona, said their works were part of the pirated dataset, according to the lawsuit. ### Related Stocks - [AAPL.US - Apple](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/AAPL.US.md) - [AAPB.US - GraniteShares 2x Long AAPL Daily ETF](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/AAPB.US.md) - [AAPD.US - Direxion Daily AAPL Bear 1x Shares](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/AAPD.US.md) - [AAPU.US - Direxion Daily AAPL Bull 2X Shares](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/AAPU.US.md) - [AAPX.US - T-Rex 2X Long Apple Daily Target ETF](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/AAPX.US.md) - [AAPY.US - Kurv Yield Premium Strategy Apple Aapl ETF](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/AAPY.US.md) - [APLY.US - YieldMax AAPL Option Income Strategy ETF](https://longbridge.com/en/quote/APLY.US.md) ## Related News & Research | Title | Description | URL | |-------|-------------|-----| | 蘋果開始在 iPhone 上測試端到端加密的 RCS 消息 | 蘋果正在通過 iOS 26.4 的開發者測試版測試端到端加密的 RCS 消息。這一功能在去年宣佈，最終將允許 iPhone 和 Android 用户之間進行加密消息傳遞。目前，測試僅限於蘋果設備，該功能不會包含在 iOS 26.4 的發佈中 | [Link](https://longbridge.com/en/news/276076870.md) | | 為什麼蘋果現在悄然押注於視頻播客 | 蘋果正在將其播客策略從音頻轉向視頻，宣佈將在春季擴展 Apple Podcasts 以支持視頻內容。此次更新將為創作者提供新的發佈和廣告工具，使聽眾能夠在觀看和收聽之間無縫切換。這一舉措是在 YouTube 在美國播客消費中佔據領先地位的背 | [Link](https://longbridge.com/en/news/276076729.md) | | 【新股 IPO】【認購情況】【不斷更新】人工智能 (AI) 公司海致科技 (2706) 錄得 1509.84 億元孖展，超購逾 1934 倍 | 人工智慧公司海致科技於 2 月 5 日至 10 日進行招股，截至 9 日累計錄得 1509.84 億元孖展認購，超購逾 1934 倍。公司計劃發行 2803 萬股 H 股，招股價介乎 25.6 元至 28 元，集資最多 7.8 億元，預計於 | [Link](https://longbridge.com/en/news/275394225.md) | | 報道：AI 軍事用途存分歧，美國國防部接近與 Anthropic 切斷關係 | 報道稱，雙方關係破裂源於數月來圍繞美國軍方如何使用 Claude 工具的激烈談判。Anthropic 特別希望確保其人工智能不會被用於大規模監控公民，或用於開發無需人類參與即可部署的武器。美國政府方面則希望能夠將 Claude 用於 “所有 | [Link](https://longbridge.com/en/news/276069534.md) | | Anthropic 按 3800 億美元估值敲定 300 億美元融資 | Anthropic 已完成最新的融資交易，從投資者處籌集 300 億美元資金，融資後估值達到 3800 億美元（含本輪融資金額），這進一步增強了這家人工智能公司在與勁敵 OpenAI 競爭中的實力。 | [Link](https://longbridge.com/en/news/275804797.md) | --- > **Disclaimer**: This article is for reference only and does not constitute any investment advice.