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  • Class Action Accuses Meta of Pirating Books to Train AI Alan Gardner
    Five publishers and one author have filed lawsuit against Meta for deliberately pirating millions of books to train its AI model Llama. While symbolic, the suit also names Mark Zuckerberg for “personally authorized and actively encouraged the infringement.” The publishers include: Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, and novelist Scott Turow.The suit, filed in […]
     

Class Action Accuses Meta of Pirating Books to Train AI

6 May 2026 at 21:13
Five publishers and one author have filed lawsuit against Meta for deliberately pirating millions of books to train its AI model Llama. While symbolic, the suit also names Mark Zuckerberg for “personally authorized and actively encouraged the infringement.” The publishers include: Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage, and novelist Scott Turow.The suit, filed in […]

Canadian Trump critic sues after Homeland Security seeks ‘vast swaths’ of his Google information

6 May 2026 at 19:10
A Canadian critic of the Trump administration has filed a legal complaint against Markwayne Mullin, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, aimed at stopping the U.S. government from obtaining his personal information from Google. Read More

Ohio Sues 22-Year-Old Wedding Photographer Accused of Not Delivering Images

6 May 2026 at 16:54

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A 22-year-old wedding photographer has been sued by the state of Ohio following numerous complaints from couples who paid for photos but never received them.

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Major Lawsuit Claims Mark Zuckerberg ‘Personally Authorized’ Use of Copyrighted Works for AI

6 May 2026 at 15:09

A smartphone displays the Meta logo in the foreground, with a blurred person standing against a blue background in the distance.

Five publishing houses and a best-selling novelist have filed a lawsuit alleging that Meta illegally used millions of copyrighted works to train its AI language system Llama, and Mark Zuckerberg "personally authorized" the company's copyright infringement.

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