On March 9, U.S. Federal Judge Vince Chhabria issued a ruling in a case involving Meta of AI copyright lawsuitA ruling was issued allowing the suit to move forward, but also dismissing some of the plaintiffs' claims.
In Kadrey v. Meta, several authors, including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates, accused Meta of infringing on their intellectual property. They claim thatMeta used their books to train its Llama AI model and removed copyright information from the books to hide the infringement. In response.Meta argues that its training practices are fair use.The judge argued that the case should be dismissed because the plaintiffs lacked standing. However, at last month's hearing, Judge Chhabria appeared to be opposed to the dismissal, but he also criticized the "overblown" rhetoric used by the plaintiffs' legal team.
In Friday's ruling, Judge Chhabria noted that the allegation of copyright infringement "is clearly a concrete injury sufficient to constitute standing" and that the plaintiffs "sufficiently allege that Meta intentionally removed copyright management information (CMI) to conceal copyright infringement ". He further stated, "Taken together, these allegations raise a 'reasonable, albeit not particularly strong, inference' that Meta removed the CMI to prevent Llama from exporting the CMI, thereby avoiding exposure of the fact that the material used in its training was copyrighted. " However.The judge also dismissed the plaintiffs' claims regarding the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA)because the plaintiffs did not "allege that Meta accessed their computers or servers -- only their data (in the form of books)."
The lawsuit has already revealed some of Meta's practices when it comes to copyright issues. The plaintiffs' court filings claim that Meta's Llama team received permission from Mark Zuckerberg to use copyrighted works to train models, and that other team members have discussed using legally controversial content for AI training.
1AI notes that a number of AI copyright lawsuits are currently pending in U.S. courts, including one filed by The New York Times against OpenAI.
