Many law professors accuse Meta of using 'free' books for AI.

According to TechCrunch, the amicus brief that a group of law professors submitted to the Northern District of California Court last Friday (US time) strongly criticizes Meta's "fair use" argument. They argue that Meta is claiming greater legal rights than ever before, far exceeding what the courts have ever granted to human authors.

“ Using copyrighted books to ‘teach’ AI to create new content isn’t a major ‘change.’ Because the way AI uses books isn’t much different from how humans read books to learn to write – which is the main reason books are created ,” the summary states.

Meta's new LLama 3 models are advancing open-source AI. (Source: Techcrunch)

Law professors also emphasized that Meta's use of copyrighted works to train AI in order to create products that compete in the same market as the original works does not constitute modification. Furthermore, since Meta is a for-profit company, the commercial purpose of this use is clearly evident.

Also on that day, the International Association of Scientific , Technical and Medical Publishers (a global trade organization for academic publishers) and the Copyright Alliance (a non-profit organization representing creators in various fields) also filed amicus abstracts in support of the authors in this lawsuit.

Hours after this article was published, a representative from Meta pointed out that, the previous week, a small group of other law professors and the Electronic Frontier Foundation had also submitted amicus briefs in support of Meta's legal position.

Earlier in January, author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, comedian Sarah Silverman, and several other authors filed a lawsuit against Meta for copyright infringement. In a 2023 court filing in California, made public on January 8th, they alleged that the tech giant illegally used their books to develop its large language model, Llama, citing numerous internal company documents.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, a renowned writer and journalist, is known for his insightful exploration of race, history, and identity. (Source: Techcrunch)

This is just one of several lawsuits filed by publishers against AI developers, alleging, to some extent, that their copyrighted works have been used illegally in the development of AI products. Meanwhile, the defendants, mostly large technology corporations, typically argue that they have used all copyrighted material fairly.

Hien Phan (Source: Techcrunch)

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