Publishers’ Copyright Claims Against Meta Over AI Training
Meta · Llama artificial intelligence models and copyrighted books and journal articles used for AI training · New Filing
About this case
Publishers and author Scott Turow filed a class-action lawsuit in Manhattan federal court against Meta Platforms and Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that Meta downloaded and repeatedly copied millions of pirated books, journals, and articles to train its Llama AI models and that Llama produces outputs substituting for protected works. The plaintiffs seek damages, an injunction, destruction of allegedly infringing copies, and class certification; the matter is in the filing stage and ongoing litigation is not otherwise specified.
Case overview
- Defendant company
- Meta
- Product or service
- Llama artificial intelligence models and copyrighted books and journal articles used for AI training
- Court case number
- 1:26-cv-03689
- Case status
- New Filing
- Lawsuit type
- Other
- Reported harm
- Other
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Sources
Public reporting associated with this case.
- Publishers and Author Sue Meta Over Alleged Pirated-Book Use in Llama Training
WebProNews ·
- Publishers and Author Sue Meta Over Copyrighted Works Used to Train AI
CBS News ·
- Authors and Publishers Copyright Class Action Against Meta
NPR ·
- Publishers and Author Sue Meta Over Use of Books to Train AI Models
Deadline ·
- Meta Copyright Claims Involving AI Training
Aol ·
- Publishers’ Class Action Alleging Meta Used Pirated Works to Train Llama AI Models
Newser ·
- Publishers’ Copyright Claims Against Meta Over AI Training
Yahoo ·