In re Google Generative AI Copyright Litigation
Opinion
Trial Court Opinion
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 Case No. 23-cv-03440-EKL (SVK)
IN RE GOOGLE GENERATIVE AI
ORDER RE DISCOVERY DISPUTE
COPYRIGHT LITIGATION Re: Dkt. No. 302 10
Before the Court is the fourth discovery dispute in a line of disputes relating to Plaintiffs’ efforts to identify the Named Plaintiffs’ and putative class members’ works that were used by Defendant Google LLC (“Google”) in training its AI models. Dkt. 302; see also Dkts. 140, 159, 209. Plaintiffs first sought the provision of source code, which this Court denied. Based on Google’s representations that it was the training datasets, not the source code, that would enable such identification, the Court approved (with some modifications) an inspection protocol for training datasets proffered by Google and agreed to by Plaintiffs. See Dkts. 140, 155. The subsequent disputes related to refinement/enforcement of this protocol. See Dkts. 159, 172, 208, 221. Plaintiffs now seek to compel Google, by whatever means possible, to “produce…