Class Action
Nazemian & Dubus v. NVIDIA
DiscoveryClass claims present
Abdi Nazemian, Brian Keene & Stewart O'Nan v. NVIDIA Corporation (consolidated with Dubus v. NVIDIA)
Where it stands
Judge Jon Tigar denied NVIDIA's motion to dismiss in large part in May 2026, allowing direct and contributory infringement to proceed; class certification briefing was scheduled for mid-2026.
Key ruling
May 2026 — the court denied NVIDIA's motion to dismiss in substantial part, sustaining direct and contributory copyright infringement claims premised on shadow-library sourcing.
What is not confirmed
Two reputable sources give slightly different dates (May 5 vs. May 8, 2026) and differ on whether the vicarious count was dismissed with leave to amend, so the exact scope of that order should be confirmed against the docket.The record
- Court
- N.D. Cal.
- Case number
- 4:24-cv-01454 (JST)
- Filed
- 2024-03-08
- Defendants
- NVIDIA Corporation
- Plaintiffs
- Putative class of book authors whose works allegedly reached NVIDIA's training data through The Pile/Books3 and Anna's Archive
- Technology at issue
- NeMo Megatron / Megatron-family large language models
- Relief sought
- Class-wide statutory and actual damages plus injunctive relief
- Counsel of record
- Susman Godfrey LLP · Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP · DiCello Levitt LLP · Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP · Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLP
Claims pleaded
Sources (3)
- Susman Godfrey Advances AI Copyright Case as Court Denies NVIDIA Motion to DismissSusman Godfrey L.L.P. · 2026-05-08
- Nazemian v. NVIDIA CorporationLoeb & Loeb LLP · 2026-05-05
- Status of all 57 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 26, 2025)Chat GPT Is Eating the World · 2025-10-26
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