AI BriefingMeta Sued by Publishers Over Copyright
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Major US publishers have filed a copyright lawsuit against Meta over Llama training.
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Major US publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill and author Scott Turow have filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta in a Manhattan federal court.
The plaintiffs claim that Meta illegally copied millions of books, textbooks, academic journals, and more to use for training Llama. The key issue is whether this large-scale copying constitutes copyright infringement that bypassed licensing, or whether it falls within the scope of fair use that Meta is expected to argue.
- The plaintiffs are seeking class-action status.
- Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement is cited as a precedent that has raised the cost risk of similar lawsuits.
- Depending on the outcome, AI companies' data sourcing, licensing, and model development costs could be directly affected.
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