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Meta defeats copyright claims from US book authors over AI training

By Amy Miller ( June 25, 2025, 23:00 GMT | Insight) -- Meta Platforms' copying of millions of copyrighted books to train its generative AI model Llama is “highly transformative” and therefore fair use under US copyright law, US District Judge Vince Chhabra said. But the opinion does “not stand for the proposition” that Meta’s copying “is lawful,” he warned. “It stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one.”Meta Platforms has escaped a copyright lawsuit filed by a group of US authors who accused the tech company of copying millions of copyrighted books without permission to train its generative AI model Llama, a US judge in San Francisco said today....

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