Los Angeles partner, Rohit Nath, has been tapped by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to serve as co-lead counsel to plaintiffs in a proposed class action against Apple for allegedly using pirated books to train its artificial intelligence models.
The suit, which was filed against Apple by three sets of authors, alleges that Apple used copyrighted works downloaded from pirate libraries to train its Apple Intelligence set of generative AI programs and technologies.
Nath is well versed in AI copyright class actions, having recently helped secure a historic $1.5 billion deal requiring Anthropic to pay rightsholders whose books were downloaded by Anthropic from pirating databases. He is also leading litigation related to copyright infringement and artificial intelligence in In Re OpenAI Copyright Infringement Litigation, where he and Court-appointed lead counsel, Justin Nelson, represent a group of prominent writers against OpenAI and Microsoft. Nath and Nelson lead similar litigation against Databricks and NVIDIA.
Nath will co-lead the Apple litigation with William Dreher, a partner with Keller Rohrback. Read more about the case in The Recorder and more about Nath’s work here.
