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Judge tosses authors' AI training copyright lawsuit against Meta

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U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria dismisses copyright infringement lawsuit against Facebook parent Meta Platforms .

The judge says the ruling does not mean that Meta ’s use of copyrighted materials is lawful.

The ruling is the second in a week to dismiss major copyright claims from book authors against the rapidly developing AI industry.

Meta is accused of pulling books from online “shadow libraries’s” websites.

The authors’ case against Meta forced CEO Mark Zuckerberg to be deposed, and disclosed internal conversations at the company over the ethics of tapping into pirated databases.

Meta has also argued that the methods it used have “no bearing on the nature and purpose of its use”.

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