Zuckerberg 'personally authorized' Meta's copyright infringement, publishers say
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- Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow sued Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for allegedly using millions of copyrighted works without permission to train AI language system Llama.
- The class action lawsuit accuses Meta of copyright infringement, claiming Zuckerberg personally authorized and encouraged the illegal use of books and journal articles.
- Meta responded by vowing to fight the lawsuit aggressively, arguing that training AI on copyrighted material can qualify as fair use according to court findings.
- The plaintiffs include publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and McGraw Hill, with authors like James Patterson, Donna Tartt, and former President Joe Biden affected.
- This lawsuit adds to a series of legal actions by authors against AI companies, including a recent $1.5 billion settlement by Anthropic in a similar case.