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Publishers and Scott Turow sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg over AI training

techMay 5, 202613324

Five publishers and author Scott Turow sued Meta Platforms and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, filing a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit over Meta’s use of books to train its LLaMA AI. The suit says Meta copied millions of copyrighted books and articles without permission to build and fine-tune the LLaMA family of models. The suit says Zuckerberg personally authorized and actively encouraged the infringement. If plaintiffs win, publishers could force licensing deals or legal limits on training materials, reshaping how companies build large language models.

The Washington Post
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Five publishers and an author filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and founder Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that the tech giant violated copyright law by training its generative AI platform on millions of illegally pirated books and articles.

1493h ago
LaFarad5

Win or loose, it won't matter to Meta. If they loose, it's a fine they can comfortably pay and carry on. They have the data, they can't untrain the model. If judges said they had to delete all of their AI code because it was trained on copyrighted data, then that would change things.

pecky2

Evil. Pure and simple. Our tech overlords will break our brains for a couple dollars.

alan-a.bsky.social2

Another tech bro that has zero ethics if making money is at stake. Delete your Facebook and Instagram apps.

Colleen T
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Major publishers sue Meta for copyright infringement over AI training www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

1004h ago
Justin Hendrix
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"A group of publishers have filed a class action lawsuit against Meta Platforms, alleging the tech conglomerate illegally used their copyrighted works to source and train its AI platform. Publishers including Cengage Learning, Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw & Scott Turow are demanding a jury trial..."

486h ago
Meta Resistance
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Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/books/publishers-turow-meta-zuckerberg-lawsuit-copyright.html #Meta #MarkZuckerberg

157h ago
Vast Country Hypnosis
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Mark Zuckerberg ‘personally authorized’ Meta #ArtificialIntelligence training copyright infringement, alleged in new lawsuit by Five publishing houses and author Scott Turow suing Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg for #copyright infringement | @the-independent.com www.the-independent.com/tech/meta-ma...

103h ago
Hacker News 100
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Zuckerberg 'Personally Authorized and Encouraged' Meta's Copyright Infringement https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-publishers-scott-turow-1236738383/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026207

11h ago
Marc E. Vargo Books
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Five publishing houses – Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishing Group, Cengage Learning, McGraw Hill and Elsevier - as well as author Scott Turow and Scribe Inc, have filed a class action lawsuit against Meta and CEO Mark Zuckerberg.

15h ago
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
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The Big Five #publishers and #author Scott Turow have filed a class-action copyright infringement lawsuit against #Meta and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. The suit says "Zuckerberg himself personally authorized and actively encouraged the infringement." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/b...

3h ago
UK News 🇬🇧
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Mark Zuckerberg and Meta sued by authors claiming he approved AI training with their books © Reuters

3h ago
Invalid Handle News
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5h ago
CBS Philadelphia
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A group of publishers and bestselling novelist Scott Turow are suing Meta and its founder, Mark Zuckerberg, alleging that the tech giant used copyrighted material to train Meta's artificial intelligence technology.

3h ago
Dagnabitalltoheck (she/her)
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To me AI is annoying windows that pop up when I'm trying to concentrate, or incomplete info that still needs to be verified. "the 5 co's suing — Elsevier, Cengage, Hachette, Macmillan & McGraw Hill — include Turow, James Patterson, Donna Tartt, Joe Biden & Yiyun Li, Amanda Vaill"

3h ago
Christina Ayiotis
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“Publishing houses Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage joined forces with bestselling author Scott Turow (and his own company S.C.R.I.B.E) to file a class-action lawsuit on Tuesday against Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.” www.npr.org/2026/05/05/n... @npr.org

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