In another copyright infringement case brought in California’s Northern District—this time against Meta, filed by 13 prominent authors—Judge Vince Chhabria issued a surprising ruling. He suggest that “in cases involving uses like Meta’s, it seems like the plaintiffs will often win,” but in this particular case the plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and thus “the Court has no choice but to grant summary judgment to Meta on the plaintiffs’ claim that the company violated copyright law by training its models with their books.” That said, however, “In the grand scheme of things, the consequences of this ruling are limited. This […]
