AI copyright battles enter pivotal year as US courts weigh fair useAfter a string of fresh lawsuits and a landmark settlement in 2025, the new year promises to bring a wave of rulings that could define how...
05 Jan, 2026, 05.35 PM IST
Entrepreneur magazine publisher sues Meta over AI trainingThe owner of business magazine Entrepreneur sued Meta Platforms in California federal court on Thursday for allegedly misusing its work to ...
07 Nov, 2025, 09.03 AM IST
AI and copyrights: The fight for fair useBig tech firms like Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Anthropic face lawsuits over using copyrighted books to train AI without permission. Court...
26 Jun, 2025, 05.15 PM IST
US judge sides with Meta in AI training copyright caseMusicians, book authors, visual artists and news publications have sued various AI companies that used their data without permission or pay...
26 Jun, 2025, 08.58 AM IST
Judge dismisses authors' copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI trainingThe Wednesday ruling from US District Judge Vince Chhabria was the second in a week from San Francisco's federal court to dismiss major cop...
26 Jun, 2025, 06.59 AM IST
Microsoft sued by authors over use of books in AI trainingA group of authors sued Microsoft, alleging it used nearly 200,000 pirated books to train its Megatron AI without permission. Filed in New ...
25 Jun, 2025, 10.23 PM IST
Anthropic wins key ruling on AI in authors' copyright lawsuitSiding with tech companies on a pivotal question for the AI industry, US District Judge William Alsup said Anthropic made "fair use" of boo...
24 Jun, 2025, 07.17 PM IST
Judge in Meta case warns AI could 'obliterate' market for original worksIn a San Francisco court, a federal judge questioned Meta's claim that using copyrighted works to train AI models is "fair use". The judge ...
02 May, 2025, 09.57 AM IST
Big Tech’s free use of copyrighted work to train AI devalues creators, crowns a new techno-eliteMeta faces a lawsuit for allegedly using millions of pirated books to train its LLAMA algorithms, claiming 'fair use'. The company argues i...
25 Apr, 2025, 11.04 PM IST
Authors hold London protest against Meta for 'stealing' work to train AIA US court filing earlier this year alleged that Zuckerberg approved the company using the online library "LibGen", which provides access t...
04 Apr, 2025, 10.21 PM IST
Meta’s Llama AI in hot water: Alleged copyright theft leads to class action lawsuit, accused of pirating 82TB of books for AI trainingMeta is being sued for allegedly using pirated books from shadow libraries to train its AI models, despite internal concerns and ethical wa...
11 Feb, 2025, 09.59 PM IST
Meta knew it used pirated books to train AI, authors sayAuthors, including Ta-Nehisi Coates and comedian Sarah Silverman, accused Meta Platforms of using pirated books to train its AI, with CEO M...
10 Jan, 2025, 08.27 AM IST
Meta used copyrighted books for AI training despite lawyers' warnings, allege authorsA new complaint, filed on Monday, includes chat logs of a Meta-affiliated researcher discussing the procurement of the dataset in a Discord...
13 Dec, 2023, 08.45 AM IST
Having productive conversations with authors: OpenAI on new lawsuitSam Altman-run OpenAI has said it is "having productive conversations" with creators around the world, including the Authors' Guild, as mor...
23 Sep, 2023, 12.42 PM IST
Pulitzer winner Michael Chabon, other authors sue Meta over AI copyright issuesChabon, Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang and authors Matthew Klam, Rachel Louise Snyder and Ayelet Waldman in a lawsuit said Meta ...
13 Sep, 2023, 01.36 PM IST
Sarah Silverman sues Meta, OpenAI for copyright infringementThe proposed class action lawsuits filed by Silverman, Richard Kadrey and Christopher Golden in San Francisco federal court Friday allege F...
10 Jul, 2023, 07.41 AM IST
Italy's antitrust takes steps against Meta in music rights caseLast month, Meta, which owns Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram, failed to reach a deal with the Italian society of authors and publishers SI...
21 Apr, 2023, 12.34 PM IST