A judge has ruled that Meta must answer allegations of removing copyright management information (CMI) when using copyrighted material to train its AI models. Plaintiffs, including authors Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman, argue that Meta's actions violated the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and aimed to obscure the copyrighted origins of their training data. Judge Vince Chhabria's decision permits the plaintiffs' claims to proceed, suggesting that Meta's actions regarding CMI may indicate willful infringement, raising the prospect of settlement or trial in the ongoing case.
"[The plaintiffs'] allegations raise a 'reasonable, if not particularly strong, inference' that Meta removed CMI to try to prevent Llama from outputting CMI and thus revealing that it was trained on copyrighted material."
"Judge Chhabria last week allowed the plaintiff's claim that Meta violated the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) by removing copyright notices from works used to train the Facebook giant's Llama family of models to continue."
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