Category: Meta

Parties in Kadrey v. Meta ask Judge Chhabria for 1 month extension to schedule due to Meta’s recent discovery of new evidence of its torrenting from Shadow Libraries, Library Genesis and Anna’s Archives

Meta’s prior torrenting from shadow libraries continues to prolong the copyright lawsuit filed by Kadrey book authors. Meta recently discovered new evidence of its past torrenting, about which Meta informed Kadrey on Oct. 27. Meta will turn over the new evidence and will continue to investigate for additional evidence. The parties agree the new evidence…
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Meta moves to dismiss Strike 3 Holdings copyright suit

Meta moved to dismiss the complaint of Strike 3 Holdings, the maker of adult videos. We’ll have to see what Strike 3 Holdings says in response, but Meta makes a pretty good case for failure to state copyright claims against Meta. Excerpt of Meta’s brief: DOWNLOAD META’S BRIEF
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Status of all 57 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 26, 2025): Apple hit with 3 lawsuits.

The U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies continue unabated. Here are the Top 5 news items: 1. Apple joins the copyright party. Although Apple has been roundly criticized for its slow development of Apple Intelligence, that hasn’t stopped book authors from suing Apple for copyright infringement in proposed class actions. In addition to the earlier…
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Research: Meta paper on The Art of Scaling Reinforcement Learning Compute for LLMs

Researchers from Meta with university researchers from UT Austin, UCL, UC Berkeley, Harvard, along with Periodic Labs, posted on arXiv a paper on scaling in reinforcement learning (instead of pre-training). One of their key findings is that “(3) Stable, scalable recipes follow predictable scaling trajectories, enabling extrapolation from smaller-scale runs.” ABSTRACT EXCERPT Related Stories I…
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Kadrey still seeking crime-fraud exception to attorney-client communications in suit v. Meta

Kadrey is appealing Magistrate Judge Hixson’s ruling that the crime-fraud exception did not apply to certain attorney-client communications of Meta. J Judge Hixson ruled on the narrower ground the communication in question occurred after, and not to facilitate, the alleged crime or fraud and therefore did not provide any basis for loss of privilege. DOWNLOAD KADREY’S…
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Status of all 51 copyright lawsuits v. AI (Oct. 8, 2025): no more decisions on fair use in 2025.

It’s been a hot minute since our last status report. Right now, we are in the doldrums of discovery. We do not expect any other summary judgment decisions on fair use in AI training until summer 2026 at the earliest. So far, 3 judges ruled on fair use, 2 for and 1 against. But their…
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Meta’s Superintelligence team gets off to rocky start

After Mark Zuckerberg threw lavish pay packages worth $300 million or more to lure top AI researchers (and even $1 billion offered to Mira Murati and other elite AI researchers), the new Superintelligence team has gotten off to a rocky start, with even some who have left. More from the Wall St. Journal. The new…
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Meta adds prominent trial attorney Karen L. Dunn for remaining distribution claim in Kadrey v. Meta

Meta just hired the prominent trial attorney Karen L. Dunn to represent Meta in the remaining part of Kadrey v. Meta, involving the distribution copyright infringement claim for Meta’s alleged torrenting of files from pirated books datasets including distribution of them to others. Dunn cofounded her own law firm, Dunn Isaacson Rhee. And her successes…
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Strike 3 Holdings sues Meta for copyright infringement of adult videos, including alleged use to train AI model

Wild. This lawsuit raises the total number of U.S. copyright lawsuits against AI companies to 48!
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Meta prevails on fair use in AI training in Kadrey v. Meta. But Judge Chhabria cautions a better record of dilution or market harm could prevail in other cases.

Judge Chhabria just issued his decision granting Meta partial summary judgment on fair use. But Judge Chabbira did so reluctantly, stating that the plaintiffs failed to present sufficient evidence of market dilution but expecting in other cases a better record of market dilution would have a different result. Indeed, on p. 1 of the opinion,…
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