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META SUED BY MAJOR PUBLISHERS OVER AI TRAINING

Five major book publishers and author Scott Turow filed a class action lawsuit against Meta, alleging the company illegally copied their works to train its Llama AI models without permission.

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The Verge+0m

Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engage…

The Guardian — Technology+13m

Hachette, Macmillan and others allege that Meta pirated millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama model Five…

Engadget+1h

The class action suit concerns unauthorized scraping by Llama AI.

Hacker News+1h 12m

Article URL: https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-publishers-sco…