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Meta sued by major book publishers over copyright infringement
Meta faces a major class action lawsuit from five major publishers and an author alleging the company engaged in massive copyright infringement by training its Llama AI models on pirated books and journals without permission, with the model producing verbatim reproductions of copyrighted content. This lawsuit signals escalating legal and regulatory risks for IT organizations deploying generative AI, requiring immediate review of data sourcing, model training practices, and intellectual property compliance frameworks. The outcome could establish precedent for enterprise AI governance and force companies to implement stricter content licensing and attribution protocols in their AI development pipelines.
Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history" when training its Llama AI models, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In their suit, Macmillan, McGraw-Hill, Elsevier, Hachette, Cengage, and author Scott Turow allege that Meta "repeatedly copied" their books and journal articles without permission. The lawsuit accuses Meta of knowingly ripping copyrighted work from "notorious pirate sites," such as LibGen, Anna's Archive, Sci-Hub, Sci-Mag, and others, and then feeding that material in … Read the full story at The Verge.