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Federal judge sides with Meta in lawsuit over training AI models on copyrighted books
A federal judge sided with Meta in a lawsuit that alleged the company had illegally trained its AI models on copyrighted works.
Together, these cases are shaping up to be a win for the tech industry, which has spent years in legal battles with media companies arguing that training AI models on copyrighted works is fair use. Judge Chhabria ruled that Meta’s use of copyrighted works in this case was transformative — meaning the company’s AI models did not merely reproduce the authors’ books. Furthermore, the plaintiffs failed to convince the judge that Meta’s copying of the books harmed the market for those authors, which is a key factor in determining whether copyright law has been violated.
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