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Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training

Five major publishers, including Hachette and Macmillan, filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta, alleging the company used millions of their works without permission to train its Llama AI models. Meta denies wrongdoing, citing fair use.

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Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training
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  • Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, and author Scott Turow filed the lawsuit.
  • Meta is accused of pirating millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama model training.
  • Meta claims training AI on copyrighted material qualifies as fair use and will defend aggressively.
  • This case adds to ongoing copyright battles; Anthropic previously settled a similar suit for $1.5 billion.

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