CourtSupreme Court of British Columbia
Date FiledJuly 24, 2025
A proposed class action lawsuit has been filed in British Columbia and Quebec against Databricks Inc. and MosaicML Inc.
The plaintiff alleges that the Defendants violated copyright held by Canadian authors when training its large language models (“LLMs”). Specifically, the plaintiff alleges that the Defendants used and copied a dataset called “The Pile” which in turn contained a database called “Books3”. This dataset contained large amounts of copyrighted works, including books by Canadian authors. The plaintiff alleges that the Defendants used and unlawfully copied and shared these copyrighted works, and did not license or otherwise obtain permission to do so from the copyright holders.
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