Key holding or allegation
Significant training claims survived where plaintiffs sufficiently connected works to alleged training materials; a contributory theory based on downloading/processing scripts also survived, while vicarious liability was narrowed.
Why it matters
Direct authority on training-data nexus and alleged provider facilitation of data acquisition.
Facts
Authors alleged that copyrighted books were used to train NVIDIA Megatron models and that NVIDIA supplied scripts facilitating acquisition/processing of training data.
Issues before the court
Whether plaintiffs sufficiently connected works to models and plausibly alleged direct and contributory infringement.
What the court did not decide
No final finding of infringement or rejection of fair use.
Procedural timeline
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
Motion-to-dismiss ruling: Training claims survived where plaintiffs sufficiently connected works to alleged Megatron training materials; a contributory theory based on NVIDIA's alleged downloading/processing scripts also survived.