Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training
Source: Reuters
Publishers Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan and McGraw Hill sued Meta Platforms in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, alleging that the tech giant misused their books and journal articles to train its artificial intelligence model Llama.
The publishers, as well as author Scott Turow, alleged in the proposed class action complaint, opens new tab that Meta pirated millions of their works and used them without permission to train its large language models to respond to human prompts.
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"Meta’s mass-scale infringement isn’t public progress, and AI will never be properly realized if tech companies prioritize pirate sites over scholarship and imagination," Maria Pallante, president of the Association of American Publishers, said in a statement.
The publishers allege that Meta pirated works ranging from textbooks to scientific articles to novels including "The Fifth Season" by N.K. Jemisin and "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown for its AI training. They asked the court for permission to represent a larger class of copyright owners and an unspecified amount of monetary damages.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/major-publishers-sue-meta-copyright-infringement-over-ai-training-2026-05-05/
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