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Book publishers sue Meta over AI’s ‘word-for-word’ copying

The Verge / 5/6/2026

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  • Five major book publishers and one author filed a class action lawsuit against Meta, alleging that Meta used “word-for-word” copying of copyrighted works to train its Llama AI models.
  • The plaintiffs claim Meta repeatedly copied books and journal articles without permission and characterized the alleged conduct as among the largest copyright infringements in history.
  • The lawsuit alleges Meta knowingly sourced content from pirate sites such as LibGen, Anna’s Archive, Sci-Hub, and Sci-Mag, then used that material in training.
  • The case is a legal escalation of the copyright debate around AI training data and could affect how AI vendors source and justify training materials going forward.
  • The publishers include Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, Hachette, and Cengage, with author Scott Turow among the complainants.
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Meta is facing a class action lawsuit filed by five major book publishers and one author over claims the company "engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history" when training its Llama AI models, as reported earlier by The New York Times. In their suit, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, Hachette, Cengage, and author Scott Turow allege that Meta "repeatedly copied" their books and journal articles without permission.

The lawsuit accuses Meta of knowingly ripping copyrighted work from "notorious pirate sites," such as LibGen, Anna's Archive, Sci-Hub, Sci-Mag, and others, and then feeding that material in …

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