A federal judge authorizes copyright action linked to AI against Meta to move forward, although he rejected part of the prosecution.
In Kadrey vs Meta, authors such as Richard Kadrey, Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates allegedly alleged that Meta had violated their intellectual property rights by using their books to form her Llama AI models, and that the company has deleted information on copyright from their books to hide the alleged offense.
Meta, on the other hand, said that his training is considered to be fair use, and he argued that the case should be rejected because the authors are missing standing. Last month, American district judge Vince Chhabria seemed to indicate that he was against dismissalBut he also criticizes what he considered as an “exaggerated” rhetoric of the legal teams of the authors.
In Friday decisionChhabria wrote that the allegation of copyright violation is “obviously a concrete injury sufficient for the position” and that the authors also “sufficiently stated that meta-intention has removed CMI [copyright management information] To hide the violation of copyright. »»
“Together, these allegations raise an” reasonable, if not particularly strong “inference, that Meta deleted CMI to try to prevent Llama from leaving CMI and thus revealing that it was trained on material protected by copyright,” wrote Chhabria.
The judge, however, rejected the allegations of the authors linked to the California Comparhensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act (CDAFA), because they did not “alleged that Meta accessed their computers or servers – only their data (in the form of their books)”.
The trial has already given some overviews on the way Meta approaches copyright, the judicial deposits of the complainants claiming that Mark Zuckerberg gave authorization from the Lama team To train models using works protected by copyright and this other Meta team members discussed the use of legally questionable content for AI training.
The courts currently weigh a number of copyright prosecution on AI, in particular The New York Times trial against Openai.
