A federal judge has permitted an AI-related copyright lawsuit against Meta to proceed, despite dismissing a portion of the case.
In the case of Kadrey vs. Meta, authors such as Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates have accused Meta of infringing on their intellectual property rights by utilizing their books to train its Llama AI models. They also allege that the company intentionally removed copyright information from their works to obscure the supposed violations.
Meta contends that its training practices fall under fair use and has requested the court to dismiss the lawsuit, arguing that the authors do not have standing to sue. During a court hearing last month, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria appeared to lean towards allowing the lawsuit to continue, while also criticizing what he described as “exaggerated” language from the authors’ legal representatives.
In a ruling issued on Friday, Judge Chhabria stated that the claims of copyright infringement present “clearly a concrete injury sufficient for standing” and that the authors have “sufficiently alleged that Meta deliberately removed CMI [copyright management information] to hide copyright infringement.”
“Collectively, these claims suggest a ‘reasonable, if not particularly strong inference’ that Meta removed CMI in an effort to prevent Llama from disclosing CMI and revealing that it was trained on copyrighted material,” wrote Chhabria.
However, the judge dismissed the authors’ allegations pertaining to the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA), citing that they did not “allege that Meta accessed their computers or servers — only their data (in the form of their books).”
This lawsuit has already shed light on Meta’s approach to copyright, with legal documents from the plaintiffs claiming that Mark Zuckerberg authorized the Llama team to utilize copyrighted works for training the models, while other Meta employees discussed the use of content with dubious legal standing for AI training purposes.
Currently, the courts are considering several AI copyright lawsuits, including The New York Times’ case against OpenAI.
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