Law professors are on the side of authors who fight meta with AI copyright

There is a group of professors specializing in copyright law I submitted an amicus brief It helps the author sued Meta and allegedly trained the Lama AI model in the ebook without permission.

The summary, filed Friday in the U.S. District Court for the San Francisco Division in the Northern District of California, calls Meta’s fair use defense “a breathtaking request for greater legal privilege than the court has recognized human authors.”

“The use of copyrighted works to train generative models is not “transformative.” Because using works for that purpose is not related to using them to educate human authors. “The use of that training is not “transformative.” The purpose is to allow for the creation of works that compete with works copied in the same market. This is undoubtedly the purpose of using “commercials” when pursuing by for-profit companies like Meta. ”

In this case, authors including Richard Cudley, Sarah Silverman and Tanehishi Coates, claim that Meta infringed intellectual property rights by using e-books to train models, and the company removed copyright information from those e-books to hide suspects. Meanwhile, Meta argues that the case should be dismissed because its training is not only entitled as fair use, but because the author has not lost his litigation position.

Early this monthUS District Judge Vince Chhabria dismissed some of it, but allowed the case to move forward. In his ruling, Chhabria wrote that the allegations of copyright infringement “a clear, concrete injury sufficient for his position,” and the author also appropriately claims that Meta intentionally deleted the CMI (copyright management information) to conceal the copyright infringement.”

The court is currently considering many AI copyright cases. Suits for the New York Times Open Alliance.