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Elsevier, Cengage Learning, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan Publishers, McGraw Hill, and bestselling author Scott Turow have joined together to file a class action lawsuit against Meta and its founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for willful infringement of millions of works, torrented via pirate sites, to develop Meta’s Llama large language models.
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/digital/copyright/article/100329-publishers-file-infringement-lawsuit-against-meta-zuckerberg.html
#Authors #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #ClassAction #Publishers #PiratedBooks #MetaAI

Publishers File Lawsuit Against Meta, Mark Zuckerberg

For the first time, five book and journal publishers have banded together to charge an AI company with copyright infringement in building their large language models.

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Hacker News Mar 7

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues

https://torrentfreak.com/uploading-pirated-books-via-bittorrent-qualifies-as-fair-use-meta/

#HackerNews #Uploading #Pirated #Books #via #BitTorrent #Qualifies #as #Fair #Use #Meta #Argues

fairuse #bittorrent #piratedbooks #metaverse #copyright #law

Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues * TorrentFreak

In an ongoing lawsuit, Meta now argues that uploading pirated books to strangers via BitTorrent qualifies as fair use.

Regina Kammer Oct 24, 2025

As Marc Benioff faces backlash in SF, Salesforce hit with AI copyright suit for pirated books
Book authors E. Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore propose class action v. Salesforce
https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.substack.com/p/as-marc-benioff-faces-backlash-in
#WritingCommunity #Copyright #ClassAction #ArtificialIntelligence #PiratedBooks

As Marc Benioff faces backlash in SF, Salesforce hit with AI copyright suit for pirated books

Book authors E. Molly Tanzer and Jennifer Gilmore propose class action v. Salesforce

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ALLi Blog (unofficial)Aug 22, 2025

News Podcast: Anthropic Class Action Deadline Nears; New Competency Tool for Editors https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-anthropic-class-action/ #editorialcompetencytool #copyrightregistration #classactiondeadline #Anthropiclawsuit #indieauthors #piratedbooks #Podcast

News Podcast: Anthropic Class Action Deadline Nears; New Competency Tool for Editors

News Podcast: Class action deadline approaches for authors, plus details on a new competency tool for editors.

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ALLi Blog (unofficial)Jul 26, 2025

News Summary: Judge Clears Path for Class Action in Anthropic AI Copyright Case https://selfpublishingadvice.org/anthropic-ai/ #copyrightinfringement #LibraryGenesis #piratedbooks #AnthropicAI #classaction #JudgeAlsup #News

News Summary: Judge Clears Path for Class Action in Anthropic AI Copyright Case

Judge allows authors to pursue a class action against Anthropic AI over pirated books, with key limits on eligibility and scope.

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IndieAuthors.Social News Jul 3, 2025

News Summary: Anthropic Wins Fair Use Ruling on AI Training, but Faces Billions over Pirated Library

The big news this week is that there has been a ruling in one of the major AI copyright cases, and the tech industry at this stage seems to have the most to cheer. But while there are implications for other claims, this is not a once-and-done case by any…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/anthropic-wins/

#AIcopyrightruling #Anthropic #ClaudeAI #FairUse #piratedbooks
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News Summary: Anthropic Wins Fair Use Ruling on AI Training, but Faces Billions over Pirated Library

Court rules that Anthropic’s AI training on copyrighted books qualifies as fair use, but using pirated content may cost billions in damages.

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ALLi Blog (unofficial)Jul 3, 2025

News Summary: Anthropic Wins Fair Use Ruling on AI Training, but Faces Billions over Pirated Library https://selfpublishingadvice.org/anthropic-wins/ #AIcopyrightruling #shadowlibraries #piratedbooks #Anthropic #ClaudeAI #FairUse #News

News Summary: Anthropic Wins Fair Use Ruling on AI Training, but Faces Billions over Pirated Library

Court rules that Anthropic’s AI training on copyrighted books qualifies as fair use, but using pirated content may cost billions in damages.

The Self-Publishing Advice Center

SetSideB May 24, 2025

8-Bit Show-And-Tell Finds Fake C64 Programming Books On Amazon
Amazon has, in some areas at least, become a slop-pile, full of entries for misleading and scammy products. It seems just about anyone can advertise on Amazon for any product, including endless products with fake machine-generated brands, and flash drives
https://setsideb.com/8-bit-show-and-tell-takes-down-fake-c64-programming-books/
#retro #8bitshowandtell #Amazon #c64 #PiratedBooks #retro #scams #THEC64Maxi #video #youtube

8-Bit Show-And-Tell Finds Fake C64 Programming Books On Amazon

Amazon has, in some areas at least, become a slop-pile, full of entries for misleading and scammy products. It seems just about anyone can advertise on Amazon f

Set Side B

The Yossi Schmidt Show Mar 31, 2025

META Accused Of Using Pirated Books To Train AI https://www.zerohedge.com/political/meta-accused-using-pirated-books-train-ai-authors-are-pissed via @ZeroHedge #Meta #PiratedBooks #AI #TheDigitalFreePress

META Accused Of Using Pirated Books To Train AI

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

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IndieAuthors.Social News Mar 28, 2025

Meta Faces Backlash Over AI Training with Pirated Books; Unbound Shuts Down: Self-Publishing with ALLi Featuring Dan Holloway

On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway reports on growing outrage after authors discovered their titles among pirated books used to train Meta’s AI model. A searchable LibGen…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/meta-backlash-podcast-pirated-books/

#Podcast #authorrights #LibGendatabase #MetaAI #piratedbooks
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Meta Faces Backlash Over AI Training with Pirated Books; Unbound Shuts Down: Self-Publishing with ALLi Featuring Dan Holloway

Meta faces backlash for using pirated books to train its AI model; Unbound enters administration, raising concerns for indie authors.

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