The Wrong Argument – Why Authors Lost Against Meta and What Comes Next

25/07/2025 15 min Temporada 1 Episodio 232
The Wrong Argument – Why Authors Lost Against Meta and What Comes Next

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Episode Synopsis

In a major win for Meta, a federal court recently dismissed a lawsuit brought by prominent authors who claimed their books were illegally used to train the company’s LLaMA models. But the ruling doesn’t give AI companies a free pass—it reveals the roadmap for how a better-prepared copyright plaintiff could win next time.
In this episode of The Briefing, Scott Hervey is joined by his partner Matt Sugarman as they break down:


The background of Kadrey v. Meta
The court’s detailed fair use analysis
A comparison to Bartz v. Anthropic
The “third theory” of market harm that could shape future litigation
What AI developers must do now to avoid lawsuits

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