June 23, 2026
Meta Platforms Inc. urged a California federal judge on Monday to reject a bid by 13 authors to appeal his ruling that the company's use of their copyrighted works to train its Llama large language models was fair use, arguing the decision was not a novel legal question warranting appellate review.
June 09, 2026
A group of 13 bestselling authors suing Meta have asked a California federal judge for permission to appeal his decision holding that it was fair for Meta Platforms Inc. to train its artificial intelligence system with their copyrighted material without consent, saying there's already been divergent rulings on the novel question.
March 26, 2026
A California federal judge has criticized attorneys from law firms including Boies Schiller Flexner LLP that are representing authors accusing Meta of unlawfully using copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence models, while still allowing the authors to amend their case again.
January 13, 2026
Meta Platforms has filed responses in two California cases where it is accused of unlawfully using copyrighted material to train its artificial intelligence models, asking a court to reject an attempt from authors to update their pleadings and urging the same court to dismiss most of a separate complaint from Entrepreneur magazine.
December 16, 2025
In watershed moments for copyright law and artificial intelligence, two California federal judges delivered the first rulings on whether AI developers' reliance on copyrighted works to train their models qualifies as fair use, providing initial guidance on contentious battles between content creators and tech companies. Here are Law360's picks for the top copyright rulings of 2025.
December 12, 2025
A group of bestselling authors has asked a California federal judge for a chance to update its copyright complaint against Meta Platforms, saying it wants to add a contributory infringement claim based on Meta's alleged use of peer-to-peer file-sharing to download material for artificial intelligence training.
July 11, 2025
A California federal judge said Friday that a group of bestselling authors' claims that Meta Platforms infringed their copyrights by downloading and allegedly distributing their works through peer-to-peer networks will proceed to summary judgment.
July 08, 2025
Two California judges were the first to deliver crucial rulings about what constitutes fair use in training generative artificial intelligence models — a question expected to test the boundaries of the copyright doctrine amid the emergence of the groundbreaking technology. Here is Law360's list of the biggest copyright decisions so far this year.
June 30, 2025
A California federal judge has granted Meta's request to throw out a Digital Millennium Copyright Act claim in a lawsuit that authors brought to challenge the company's use of their books to train a large language model.
June 25, 2025
A California federal judge concluded Wednesday that it was fair for Meta Platforms Inc. to train its Llama large language models with 13 bestselling authors' copyrighted material without their permission, calling their arguments that the tech giant's use of their works would harm the market for their books "half-hearted."