Digital Rights Nonprofit Defends Meta’s Pirated Books Use for AI

San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit advocating for digital rights, said a federal judge should reject authors’ bid for an early win on direct copyright infringement against Meta Platforms Inc. over its torrenting of pirated books to train its AI models.

The fair use and intermediate copying issues the lawsuit targeting Meta raises are “too important to be determined by a tangential issue,” EFF wrote in an amicus curiae brief filed Thursday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California.

“This Court should not allow the tail of Meta’s alleged BitTorrent use to wag the dog ...