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Plaintiffs' filingSeptember 28, 2026In re Google Generative AI Copyright Litigation · N.D. Cal. 5:23-cv-03440

Textbook authors suing Meta and OpenAI ask to join the Google case as a separate subclass

Michael Sullivan and six other textbook authors moved to intervene in the consolidated authors' case against Google and to represent a subclass of textbook authors. They say textbook authors' interests differ from those of other class members and of publishers, and point to the Bartz v. Anthropic settlement, where they say the process treated textbook authors less favorably and left the author-publisher split on educational works to a later step. They say that if the court finds the request untimely they will file their complaint as a new related case. The motion says both the existing plaintiffs and Google oppose it; a hearing is noticed for January 6, 2027. These are the movants' assertions and the court has not ruled. Google cited the motion the next day in asking the New York court to transfer the publishers' separate suit.

Motion to intervene (Dkt. 490) ↗Google letter in Hachette v. Google (Dkt. 37) ↗

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