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French publishers and authors sue Meta for allegedly training AI models on their books without consent, say they have evidence of “massive” copyright breaches. (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
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French publishers and authors are suing Meta Platforms Inc. for copyright infringement, accusing the tech giant of using their books to train its generative artificial intelligence model without authorization.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They follow French law in France and US law in the US. How else could it work?

They can't choose to apply US labor law in France. Do you think they can be made to follow French labor law in Silicon Valley?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Let's put it in simpler terms. Imagine it's a French made move and meta just ripped it and it's selling it back in the web.

As soon as that product, the riped french movie, is available in France for sale they are selling it through their French branch, which would be breaking French law on French soil, thus could be easily prosecuted.

If they do not comply they could be lawfully ban from operating on France.

Haven't you seen what happened with twitter in Brazil?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That's where it gets interesting. The EU can, of course, regulate imports. If there's a movie that is public domain in the US but not in France, then France/the EU could regulate the importation and sale of copies. I don't know how that is actually regulated. What it can't do is award damages for copies being made and used in the US.

There is a brief mention of the EU's AI Act. That is certainly the basis for the lawsuit, rather than copyright law.

That means, if this case proceeds, it will be basically decided by the CJEU and create precedents for the entire EU.