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Law professors side with authors battling Meta in AI copyright case
A group of professors specializing in copyright law has filed an amicus brief in support of authors suing Meta for allegedly training models without permission.
A group of professors specializing in copyright law has filed an amicus brief in support of authors suing Meta for allegedly training its Llama AI models on ebooks without permission. In the case, Kadrey v. Meta, authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates have alleged that Meta violated their intellectual property rights by using their ebooks to train models, and that the company removed the copyright information from those ebooks to hide the alleged infringement. Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria allowed the case to move forward, although he dismissed part of it.
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