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Judge rejects Meta’s claim that torrenting is “irrelevant” in AI copyright case
In an order that partly grants Meta's motion for summary judgment, judge Vince Chhabria confirmed that Meta and the authors ...
Meta in Talks to Buy AI Voice Startup PlayAI in Push for Talent
Meta Platforms Inc. is in advanced talks to acquire PlayAI, a small startup using artificial intelligence to replicate voices ...
AI wins this round as judge rules for Meta over Sarah Silverman, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and other authors
A group of authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, have lost their lawsuit against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta.
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Meta Scores AI Fair Use Court Victory, but Judge Warns Such Wins Won't Always Be the Case
AI companies scored another victory in court this week. Meta on Wednesday won a motion for partial summary judgment in its ...
Judge Rejects Authors’ Claim That Meta AI Training Violated Copyrights
The suit alleged that Meta violated the authors’ copyrights both in the AI training process and in the process of downloading ...
Meta gets partial win in AI-teaching copyright case
A federal judge let Meta off the hook for the use of books to train its artificial intelligence model, but it still might ...
Meta wins AI copyright case, but judge says others could bring lawsuits
Meta prevailed in a copyright case involving its AI model, but the federal judge left the door open for others to bring ...
Judge dismisses authors’ copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI training
Chhabria, in his Meta ruling, criticized Alsup’s reasoning on the Anthropic case, arguing that “Alsup focused heavily on the ...
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Meta and OpenAI Use of Copyrighted Books for Training AI Was Fair Use: Federal Judge
A federal judge said Meta and OpenAI's use of copyrighted works to train their Llama and ChatGPT AI model was "fair use." ...
A judge just handed Meta a big AI copyright victory. He said lawyers for the other side fumbled the case.
The judge said that one "potentially winning argument" — that AI tools could harm the market for human-created content — was ...
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AI and copyright – Meta and Anthropic declare Pyhrric victories, but may still lose the war
Infringement cases against Meta and Anthropic have found for the defendants – but only in a limited and far from decisive ...
Book authors made the wrong arguments in Meta AI training case, judge says
Ultimately, because authors introduced no evidence that Meta's AI threatened to dilute their markets, Chhabria ruled that Meta did enough to overcome authors' other arguments regarding alleged harms ...