Law professors side with authors battling Meta in AI copyright case

Law professors side with authors battling Meta in AI copyright case

A group of professors specializing in copyright law has filed an amicus brief in support of authors suing Meta for allegedly training models without permission.

‘Labour is throwing us under the bus’: Authors demand action as work ‘STOLEN’ by AI – ‘British values at stake’

A group of furious British authors are demanding answers after discovering their work may have been taken without permission to train artificial intelligence, in what they’re calling “the biggest attack on British copyright in history.”Award-winning novelist AJ West, author of The Betrayal of Thomas True, spoke to GB News after a protest outside Meta’s London HQ and accused the government of abandoning the country’s creative industry at a time o…

AI Copyright Lawsuits Consolidated as Authors Protest Meta’s Use of Shadow Library: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

For some time, there have been several AI copyright lawsuits brought by rights holders against tech firms, each focusing on how they trained their generative models and whether they breached copyright in doing so. Now, twelve of those cases have been consolidated, including the highest profile of all—the one brought by (inter alia) Sarah Silverman and Ta-Nehisi Coates—during which Meta’s now-infamous internal comms about LibGen were released. Th…