Meta wins successful copyright custody, but there is a capture

Destination marked to The great victory in a cause on Wednesday’s copyright when a federal judge established that the company did not violate the law when it formed its artificial intelligence tools on the books of 13 authors without permission.

“The Court has no other choice than to grant a summary judgment in the destination of the affirmation of the complaints according to which the company has violated the copyright law by training its models with their books,” wrote the judge of the United States district court wins Chharia in the summary judgment. He concluded that the complaints did not present sufficient evidence that the use of the destination of their books was harmful.

In 2023, a group of high -profile authors, including comedian Sarah Silverman, made a suits to Meta, claiming that the technology giant had violated their copyright by training his great linguistic models on their work. Kadrey v. Half It was one of the first cases of its kind; Now there are dozens of similar causes of Ai copyright that wind through the US courts.

Chhabria had previously stressed that he had planned to look carefully if the complaints had had sufficient evidence to demonstrate that the use of their work would have injured them financially. “The key question practically in any case in which a defendant copied the original work of someone without permission is whether to allow people to engage in that type of conduct would substantially reduce the market for the original,” he wrote in the sentence on Wednesday.

This is the second great sentence in the world of copyright this week; On Monday, judge William Alsup has established that the use of anthropic copyright protected materials to train artificial intelligence tools was legal. Chharia referred to Alsup’s summary judgment in his decision.

In this case Chharia was bad to underline that his sentence was based on the specific set of facts in this case, opening the door for other authors to sue the goal for the violation of copyright in the future. “In the great scheme of things, the consequences of this sentence are limited. This is not a class action, therefore the sentence affects only the rights of these 13 authors, not the countless others whose destination is used to train its models,” he wrote. “And, as it should be clear now, this sentence does not represent the proposal that the use of Methasses of Copyright protected materials to train its linguistic models is lawful.”

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