{"id":38175,"date":"2025-04-05T18:03:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stm-assoc.org\/?p=38175"},"modified":"2025-09-03T21:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T20:20:09","slug":"meta-sued-for-using-copyrighted-works-for-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stm-assoc.org\/meta-sued-for-using-copyrighted-works-for-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta sued for using copyrighted works for AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three French publishing organisations sued Meta last month, accusing the company of parasitically\u00a0<strong>using their members&#8217; copyrighted works without permission\u00a0<\/strong>to train its generative AI models. 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