Become a Member

Regulation TrackerLaws, orders and treaties read for their security duties and clocks Standards & FrameworksAttack taxonomies, control catalogues and frontier frameworks AI Incident DatabaseThe security incident record, with mechanism and lesson Research Paper LibraryThe papers that define the field, summarised OSS DirectoryRed teaming, guardrail, supply chain and evaluation tools Case StudiesProgrammes built, with measured outcomes AI Vulnerability TrackerCVEs and advisories for the components AI systems are built from

Latest in the tracker

New York Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act and implementing rulesNew York's law restricting algorithmic feeds for minors takes effect on 25 January 2027 under final rules published in July 2026, with certified age assurance and $5,000-per-violation penalties.

Knowledge Base Regulation Tracker Standards & Frameworks OSS Directory AI Incident Database Research Paper Library Case Studies Society Articles News Jobs About Charter Become a Member

Home/AI Incident Database/OpenAI's Training Data for LLMs Allegedly Comprised of Copyrighted Books

OpenAI's Training Data for LLMs Allegedly Comprised of Copyrighted Books

Two authors alleged in a class action lawsuit OpenAI infringed authors' copyrights by incorporating illegal "shadow libraries" offering copyrighted books without permission in the training data of its generative LLMs, such as ChatGPT.

Severity: MediumCompromise of privacy by obtaining

Sources

incidentdatabase.aihttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/555/

Incident summary from the AI Incident Database, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Contribute

Spot an error, or know a record we should add? Members can propose additions and submit corrections.

Submit incident Report a correction or request removal

OpenAI's Training Data for LLMs Allegedly Comprised of Copyrighted Books

Sources

Contribute

Related in AI Incident Database

OpenAI, Google, and Meta Alleged to Have Overstepped Legal Boundaries for Training AI

The New York Times Reportedly Sues OpenAI and Microsoft Over Alleged Unauthorized AI Training on Its Content

Stable Diffusion's Training Data Contained Copyrighted Images