Hendrix v Apple Inc

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Case Information
Case name	Hendrix et al. v. Apple Inc.^[1]
Court	N.D. Cal.^[2]
Docket	4:25-cv-07558-YGR (originally 3:25-cv-07558)^[2]^[1]
Filed	September 5, 2025^[1]
Judge(s)	Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers^[2]
Plaintiffs	Grady Hendrix, Jennifer Roberson, John Hornor Jacobs and Eboni McKinnon (Kianna Alexander)^[2]
Defendants	Apple Inc.^[2]
Case type	Civil copyright proceeding^[1]
Claims / issues	Copyright infringement in AI training; fair-use defense^[2]
Status	March 30, 2026: Apple answered the consolidated complaint and asserted fair use. A subsequent fair-use ruling has not been verified.^[2]

Hendrix et al. v. Apple Inc. is authors’ litigation alleging that Apple copied protected books to train its AI language models.^[1]

Claims and procedural history

The original complaint focuses on the Books3 dataset and Apple’s OpenELM models. It seeks relief for a proposed class of copyright owners.^[1]

Apple’s March 30, 2026 answer responds to the February 13 consolidated complaint, denies infringement and argues that its training uses are fair use. Its defense is a litigant’s position rather than a court holding.^[2]

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References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 Original complaint, September 5, 2025
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 Answer, court filing stamp March 30, 2026

[complaint-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 ^1.4 ^1.5 Original complaint, September 5, 2025

[answer-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 ^2.5 ^2.6 ^2.7 Answer, court filing stamp March 30, 2026

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