Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, alongside novelist Scott Turow, file a class-action copyright lawsuit against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
New York Times Alexandra Alter
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Discussion
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@davidwakelyn
David Wakelyn
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Ownership matters...glad to see this class action moving. https://www.nytimes.com/...
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@ednewtonrex
Ed Newton-Rex
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Major new class action lawsuit accuses Meta of copyright infringement around AI training. It says they trained on pirated books, and that AI books flooding the market demonstrates market harm. These lawsuits will keep coming. https://www.nytimes.com/... [image]
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@nyike
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“I find it distressing and infuriating that one of the top-10 richest corporations in the world knowingly used pirated copies of my books, and thousands of other authors, to train Llama, which can and has produced competing material,” Turow https://www.nytimes.com/... #AI
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Five #Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg (via @nytimes) https://www.nytimes.com/... Complaint (via @courtlistener) https://storage.courtlistener.com/ ... #publishing #copyright #lawsuits #AI #Llama [image]
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@rimaanabtawi
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“Five major publishers — Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage — and the best-selling novelist Scott Turow have filed a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit against Meta and its founder and chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg.” — www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/…
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Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training