A federal judge has permitted the continuation of an AI-related copyright lawsuit against Meta, brought forward by authors including Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman, and Ta-Nehisi Coates. These authors allege that Meta used their books for training its Llama AI models without permission, and intentionally removed copyright management information (CMI) to obscure this infringement. While Meta argued the training falls under fair use and sought dismissal based on lack of standing, the judge affirmed the authors' claims constituted a substantive injury. However, he dismissed the authors' claims under California law pertaining to data access.
"Taken together, these allegations raise a 'reasonable, if not particularly strong inference' that Meta removed CMI to try to prevent Llama from outputting CMI and thus revealing it was trained on copyrighted material."
"The judge did, however, dismiss the authors' claims related to the California Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA), because they did not 'allege that Meta accessed their computers or servers - only their data (in the form of their books)."
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