Federal Judge’s Meta Ruling Reveals Troubling Leniency Toward AI Copyright Violations

In a recent ruling that should raise red flags for every American concerned about intellectual property and fair compensation, U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by 13 prominent authors against Meta Platforms. The plaintiffs accused Meta of appropriating their copyrighted books from pirated online repositories to train its Llama artificial intelligence system without permission or payment.While the decision ostensibly favors Meta, it is far from a clean sweep. Judge Chhabria explicitly noted that the authors “made the wrong arguments,” and his dismissal does not endorse the legality of Meta’s use of copyrighted materials—this was more...