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Five major book publishers and author Scott Turow have sued Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, accusing the company of illegally using millions of copyrighted works to train its Llama generative‑AI model. The complaint alleges that Meta reproduced and distributed the material without permission or compensation, and that Zuckerberg personally authorized the infringement. Meta has faced multiple lawsuits over its AI training practices, but the company maintains that such use falls under fair‑use doctrine. Read more

Five leading book publishers—Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, Hachette and Cengage—along with author Scott Turow have sued Meta, alleging the company copied copyrighted books and journal articles to train its Llama AI models. The lawsuit claims Meta harvested material from notorious pirate sites and the Common Crawl dataset, then fed it into Llama, which can reproduce text verbatim. Plaintiffs seek damages, an injunction to stop the training, and a full inventory of the works used. Meta says it will fight the case aggressively, maintaining that AI training can fall under fair use. Read more