Federal Judge Keeps Authors' Copyright Claims Against Nvidia Alive

The ruling's practical weight comes from what the judge refused to do. By keeping direct and contributory infringement alive while dropping vicarious liability, draws a line that compliance teams at every AI lab will now have to account for: sourcing training data from shadow libraries is not insulated by downstream-use arguments. Nvidia's NeMo defense — that the framework has substantial legitimate applications — failed as a dismissal basis. That failure is the precedent. Chipmakers and model developers who trained on Books3 or similar…