Yes, in 2026 Scott Turow and several publishers filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, for copyright infringement involving Meta AI’s alleged use of stolen written materials to train the large language models of its artificial intelligence (AI) program. The suit claims that Meta knowingly used copyrighted works from pirate websites. The publishers that joined Turow in the case included Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, and Cengage. Later Turow and several publishers filed a similar lawsuit against Google.
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