Authors' lucky break in court may help class action over Meta torrenting
Judge gave authors an easier attack on Meta’s torrenting. Meta hopes SCOTUS ruling will block it.
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Looks like Meta is hoping the recent Supreme Court ruling that found Internet service providers aren't liable for piracy on their networks will help the social media giant dodge liability claims over its torrenting of AI training data. Last week, Meta filed a statement in a lawsuit that alleged that Meta should be liable under copyright law for contributory infringement simply because the company knows how torrenting works. By seeding perhaps 80 terabytes of pirated works, the company allegedly knew it was inducing infringement by allowing uploads to help speed up its downloads, the plaintiffs, Entrepreneur Media, argued. This contributory infringement claim is much easier to prove than a separate claim raised in a class action filed by book authors in Kadrey v. Meta, which alleged that Meta's torrenting meant it was liable for a "distribution" claim of direct copyright infringement. TorrentFreak noted that the authors' claim required evidence that Meta torrented an entire work, whereas the contributory infringement claim only depends on proving that Meta facilitated torrent transfers. Read full article Comments
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