{"id":624,"date":"2025-06-26T04:13:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/metas-ai-copyright-win-comes-with-a-warning-about-fair-use\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T04:13:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T00:13:44","slug":"metas-ai-copyright-win-comes-with-a-warning-about-fair-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/metas-ai-copyright-win-comes-with-a-warning-about-fair-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta\u2019s AI copyright win comes with a warning about fair use"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Meta won a major legal ruling in an AI copyright lawsuit brought by 13 authors alleging that the company illegally trained its AI systems on their work without permission. On Wednesday, Judge Vince Chhabria ruled in Meta\u2019s favor, saying it<\/a> is \u201centitled to summary judgment on its fair use defense to the claim that copying these plaintiffs\u2019 books for use as LLM training data was infringement.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the judge also pointed out some weak points in the ecosystem of Big Tech\u2019s AI efforts and Meta\u2019s arguments defending its actions as fair use. \u201cThis ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta\u2019s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful,\u201d Judge Chhabria said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one.\u201d The ruling follows Anthropic\u2019s major fair use victory it won from a separate federal judge yesterday, who ruled that training its models on legally purchased copies of books is fair use<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Judge Chhabria says that two of the authors\u2019 arguments about fair use were \u201cclear losers:\u201d the ability for Meta\u2019s Llama AI to reproduce snippets of text from their books and that Meta using their works to train its AI models without permission diluted their ability to license their works for training. \u201cLlama is not capable of generating enough text from the plaintiffs\u2019 books to matter, and the plaintiffs are not entitled to the market for licensing their works as AI training data,\u201d the judge wrote.<\/p>\n

The plaintiffs didn\u2019t do enough for a \u201cpotentially winning argument\u201d that Meta\u2019s copying would create \u201ca product that will likely flood the market with similar works, causing market dilution,\u201d according to Judge Chhabria. He also discussed the Anthropic ruling, saying that Judge William Alsup brushed aside concerns about the harm generative AI could \u201cinflict on the market for the works it gets trained on.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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