Meta Seeks ‘Fair Use’ Ruling in Authors’ AI Copyright Lawsuit

Meta Platforms Inc. urged a federal judge to rule its use of protected works to train its artificial intelligence model is “fair use” under the Copyright Act and thus didn’t infringe the rights of the authors suing the company.

The use of datasets containing pirated works qualifies as fair use because Meta’s Llama model is “highly transformative,” the company argued in a motion filed Monday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. Meta attempted to differentiate the case from one in Delaware where a federal judge recently rejected an AI company’s fair use defense, saying that ...