Media and technology company Thomson Reuters recently won a legal battle against a now-defunct legal research firm over the question of fair use in AI-related copyright cases, while other cases involving visual artists, news organizations and others are still working through U.S. courts.

Meta is facing an AI copyright lawsuit in France that's been brought by authors and publishers who are accusing it of economic "parasitism," Reuters

France’s National Publishing Union has noted “numerous works” from its members in Meta’s data pool, the group’s president, Vincent Montagne, said in a joint statement. He also accused the company of “noncompliance with copyright and parasitism.”

French publishers and authors are suing Meta in a Paris court for allegedly using their copyrighted works without permission to train its AI model. The lawsuit, backed by three trade groups, demands the removal of unauthorized data.

France's leading publishing and authors' associations have filed a lawsuit against U.S. tech giant Meta for allegedly using copyright-protected content on a massive scale without authorisation to train its artificial intelligence (AI) systems.