Meta Scores AI Fair Use Court Victory, but Judge Warns Such Wins Won't Always Be the Case

Judge: Pirate libraries may have profited from Meta torrenting 80TB of books

Meta may defeat authors’ torrenting claim due to lack of evidence.

Meta Scores AI Fair Use Court Victory, but Judge Warns Such Wins Won't Always Be the Case

Judge Vince Chhabria ruled that authors failed to make a key argument, but also said "it seems like plaintiffs will often win" in future copyright cases like the one against Meta.

Meta wins AI copyright lawsuit as US judge rules against authors

Writers accused Facebook owner of breach over using books without permission to train its AI systemMark Zuckerberg’s Meta has won the backing of a judge in a copyright lawsuit brought by a group of authors, in the second legal victory for the US artificial intelligence industry this week.The writers, who included Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, had argued that the Facebook owner had breached copyright law by using their books without permi…

US Court Sides With Meta In AI Training Copyright Case

A US judge on Wednesday handed Meta a victory over authors who accused the tech giant of violating copyright law by training Llama artificial intelligence on their creations without permission.

Judge Rejects Authors’ Claim That Meta AI Training Violated Copyrights

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a claim brought by 13 authors, including Sarah Silverman and Junot Díaz, that Meta violated their copyrights by training its AI model on their books. Judge Vincent Chhabria concluded that Meta had engaged in “fair use” when it used a dataset of nearly 200,000 books — including the plaintiffs’ […]

Judge Rules For Meta In AI Lawsuit Brought By Sarah Silverman And Other Authors, But Warns Of Illegally Using Copyrighted Works In Training Models

A federal judge ruled that Meta’s unauthorized use of copyrighted works from Sarah Silverman and other authors to train generative AI models is a “fair use,” but warned that the practice may in many circumstances be illegal. The ruling from U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria is the second this week to determine that a major AI firm’s use of copyrighted works to train models falls within the “fair use” standard, a legal defense in copyright inf…