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Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, McGraw Hill, and bestselling author Scott Turow have joined together to file a class action lawsuit against Meta and its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for willful infringement of millions of works, torrented via pirate sites, to develop Meta’s Llama large language models.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/100329-publishers-file-infringement-lawsuit-against-meta-zuckerberg.html
#Authors #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #ClassAction #Publishers #PiratedBooks #MetaAI

Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, McGraw Hill, and bestselling author Scott Turow have joined together to file a class action lawsuit against Meta and its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for willful infringement of millions of works, torrented via pirate sites, to develop Meta’s Llama large language models.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/100329-publishers-file-infringement-lawsuit-against-meta-zuckerberg.html
#Authors #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #ClassAction #Publishers #PiratedBooks #MetaAI

Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, McGraw Hill, and bestselling author Scott Turow have joined together to file a class action lawsuit against Meta and its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for willful infringement of millions of works, torrented via pirate sites, to develop Meta’s Llama large language models.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/100329-publishers-file-infringement-lawsuit-against-meta-zuckerberg.html
#Authors #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #ClassAction #Publishers #PiratedBooks #MetaAI

Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, McGraw Hill, and bestselling author Scott Turow have joined together to file a class action lawsuit against Meta and its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for willful infringement of millions of works, torrented via pirate sites, to develop Meta’s Llama large language models.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/100329-publishers-file-infringement-lawsuit-against-meta-zuckerberg.html
#Authors #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #ClassAction #Publishers #PiratedBooks #MetaAI

Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, McGraw Hill, and bestselling author Scott Turow have joined together to file a class action lawsuit against Meta and its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for willful infringement of millions of works, torrented via pirate sites, to develop Meta’s Llama large language models.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/100329-publishers-file-infringement-lawsuit-against-meta-zuckerberg.html
#Authors #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #ClassAction #Publishers #PiratedBooks #MetaAI

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

#HackerNews #Uploading #Pirated #Books #via #BitTorrent #Qualifies #as #Fair #Use #Meta #Argues

fairuse #bittorrent #piratedbooks #metaverse #copyright #law

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

#HackerNews #Uploading #Pirated #Books #via #BitTorrent #Qualifies #as #Fair #Use #Meta #Argues

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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

#HackerNews #Uploading #Pirated #Books #via #BitTorrent #Qualifies #as #Fair #Use #Meta #Argues

fairuse #bittorrent #piratedbooks #metaverse #copyright #law

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

#HackerNews #Uploading #Pirated #Books #via #BitTorrent #Qualifies #as #Fair #Use #Meta #Argues

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Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

#HackerNews #Uploading #Pirated #Books #via #BitTorrent #Qualifies #as #Fair #Use #Meta #Argues

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News Summary: Anthropic Wins Fair Use Ruling on AI Training, but Faces Billions over Pirated Library

The big news this week is that there has been a ruling in one of the major AI copyright cases, and the tech industry at this stage seems to have the most to cheer. But while there are implications for other claims, this is not a once-and-done case by any…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/anthropic-wins/

#AIcopyrightruling #Anthropic #ClaudeAI #FairUse #piratedbooks
@indieauthors

8-Bit Show-And-Tell Finds Fake C64 Programming Books On Amazon
Amazon has, in some areas at least, become a slop-pile, full of entries for misleading and scammy products. It seems just about anyone can advertise on Amazon for any product, including endless products with fake machine-generated brands, and flash drives
https://setsideb.com/8-bit-show-and-tell-takes-down-fake-c64-programming-books/
#retro #8bitshowandtell #Amazon #c64 #PiratedBooks #retro #scams #THEC64Maxi #video #youtube

Meta Faces Backlash Over AI Training with Pirated Books; Unbound Shuts Down: Self-Publishing with ALLi Featuring Dan Holloway

On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway reports on growing outrage after authors discovered their titles among pirated books used to train Meta’s AI model. A searchable LibGen…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/meta-backlash-podcast-pirated-books/

#Podcast #authorrights #LibGendatabase #MetaAI #piratedbooks
@indieauthors

The Unbelievable Scale of #AI’s #PiratedBooks Problem
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/libgen-meta-openai/682093
Court documents released last night show that the senior manager felt it was “really important for [Meta] to get books ASAP,” as “books are actually more important than web data.” Meta employees turned their attention to #LibraryGenesis, or #LibGen, one of the largest of the pirated libraries that circulate online ( 7.5M books and 81M papers) Meta got permission from “MZ” to download and use the data set #ia