Authors Seek Direct Copyright Infringement Ruling Against Meta

A federal judge should rule that Meta Platforms Inc. flouted copyright law by torrenting pirated copies of protected works to use as data to train its AI models instead of leaving the question to a jury, a group of authors suing the tech giant said in a court filing.

Plaintiffs are entitled to a ruling that Meta committed direct copyright infringement by torrenting the pirated datasets and that doing so did not constitute “fair use” of the works, the authors said in a heavily-redacted March 10 motion for partial summary judgment filed in the US District Court for the Northern ...