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Meta seeks to limit piracy suit to staff

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Meta is arguing in the Authors Guild piracy lawsuit that only the staff who downloaded torrents should be named as defendants, not executives. The filing is a bid to shift liability onto individual employees. The Authors Guild suit alleges Meta used pirated books to train its AI models. Meta's position would narrow who answers for the downloads.

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Oct 20
  1. Ars Technica · AI
    Meta tries to scapegoat staff who downloaded torrents to spare execs

    Meta is arguing in the Authors Guild piracy suit that only staff who downloaded torrents should be named.

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