A federal court in San Francisco has dismissed a copyright lawsuit where 13 well-known authors, including Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates, accused Meta of using their books without permission to train the AI system Llama.
The judge noted that the authors had not presented sufficient arguments or evidence to show how Meta's use had damaged the market value of their works, and that it is therefore the lawsuit is being dismissed. However, this only applies to the individual case, and does not mean that the court is ruling that Meta's actions are lawful in general, writes Deadline.
In the spring, a number of Swedish children's and youth book authors urged Culture Minister Parisa Liljestrand (The Moderate Party) to take action against Meta's use of copyright-protected works.
During the year, several legal disputes have been ongoing between tech companies and people in creative industries who believe that the unauthorized use of their works to train AI models is a violation of copyright. In the spring, for example, the American tech company Anthropic was given the right to use purchased, copyright-protected books to train its AI assistant Claude.
