Meta sued by major book publishers over copyright infringement

Five major publishers and author Scott Turow sued Meta in a class action over alleged copyright infringement tied to Llama training data.

The complaint says Meta copied books and journal articles from pirate sites and Common Crawl without permission.

Plaintiffs allege the company used that material to train Llama models and produce near-verbatim outputs.

The case could shape whether AI firms must disclose training sources, pay rights holders, or rely on fair use.