AI Fair Use Loss to Meta Shows Copyright Plaintiffs How to Win

Meta Platforms Inc.‘s victory finding its use of books to train AI was fair use under copyright law offers a roadmap for future plaintiffs, though it’s unclear that authors can take advantage—yet.

San Francisco-based federal Judge Vince Chhabria chastised the plaintiff authors’ attorneys in his opinion granting Meta summary judgment on Wednesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, saying they left him “no choice” but to rule for Meta after they failed to demonstrate non-speculative harm to their market.

Using copyrighted works to train lucrative AI models that then create millions of market-flooding secondary ...