Five Major Book Publishers File Class Action Against Meta — Allege 'Most Massive' AI Copyright Infringement in History
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Five major book publishers and one author filed a class action lawsuit claiming Meta 'engaged in one of the most massive infringements of copyrighted materials in history' through word-for-word copying to train AI models. This escalates the AI copyright war beyond individual artists to coordinated industry-wide legal action, joining ongoing suits from music labels and visual artists against major AI companies.