Overview
- The publishers and author Scott Turow, who filed Tuesday in New York federal court, accuse Meta of willfully copying millions of works to build Llama.
- They say Meta pulled books and journal articles through unauthorized web scraping and torrents from pirate sites such as LibGen and Anna's Archive.
- The complaint names Mark Zuckerberg as a defendant and says he approved and directed the practices.
- The suit seeks damages and a court order to destroy alleged infringing copies, and it adds contributory infringement and removal of copyright data under DMCA Section 1202(b), according to reporting on the filing.
- The case lands in a broader fight over AI training and fair use, with prior rulings split and Anthropic agreeing last year to a $1.5 billion author settlement, Reuters reported.