Judge allows AI copyright lawsuit by authors against Meta to proceed
A federal judge has allowed a copyright lawsuit against Meta involving AI to proceed, even though he dismissed a part of the case.
In Kadrey against Meta, authors such as Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman have alleged that Meta violated their intellectual rights by using their books for training its Llama AI model, and that the firm removed the copyright information in their books to conceal the alleged infringement.
Meta has argued that its training is fair use and that the authors do not have standing to sue. Last month, U.S. district judge Vince Chhabria appeared to be indicating that he was not going to dismiss the case. He argued against dismissal (19459016), but also criticized the “over-the top” rhetoric of the authors’ legal team.
Friday’s Chhabria, in his rulingwrote that the allegation that copyright infringement was “obviously” a concrete injury that would justify standing and that the authors had “adequately” alleged that Meta intentionally deleted CMI [copyright management information] in order to conceal copyright violation.
Chhabria stated that these allegations “raise a “reasonable if not especially strong inference” that Meta removed CMI because it wanted to The judge dismissed the authors’ claims relating to the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, because they had not “allegated that Meta accessed[their]computers or servers – only their data” (in the form their books). The courts are currently weighing several AI copyright lawsuits, including The New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI.
Anthony Ha, TechCrunch weekend editor, is a member of the team. He was a reporter for Adweek, a senior at VentureBeat and a Hollister Free-Lance reporter. He also worked as a content director at a VC company. He lives in New York City. View Bio
