Mark Zuckerberg Personally Backed Meta Copyright Infringement, Publishers Allege
Five major publishers and author Scott Turow have filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, alleging the company used copyrighted books and journal articles without permission to train its AI system, Llama. The lawsuit claims Meta used millions of copyrighted works without paying authors or securing licenses.
A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg in federal court in Manhattan. The plaintiffs, including Elsevier, Cengage Learning, and author Scott Turow, allege that Meta used millions of copyrighted works to develop its AI tools without permission. The lawsuit claims that Meta copied works from unauthorized sources and used them repeatedly in training datasets. Meta used pirated material to train Llama, its large language model, and removed copyright-management information from some material. The company has rejected the allegations, arguing that training AI systems on copyrighted material can fall under fair use. The lawsuit is part of a growing debate over the use of copyrighted material in AI training.
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