Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, order on cross-motions for partial summary judgment (25 June 2025): the limits of the ruling (Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 3:23-cv-03417-VC (N.D. Cal. June 25, 2025), Dkt. 598, at 4 to 5)
Meta won on the record these authors built, not on a rule that training is lawful. The judge expected most unlicensed training to fail fair use when the market harm is proved.
Dated 17 Oct 2026Source checked 17 Oct 2026Basis: primary text
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“The upshot is that in many circumstances it will be illegal to copy copyright-protected works to train generative AI models without permission. ... It stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one.”
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- Kadrey v. Meta: summary judgment for Meta on fair use
- Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, order on cross-motions for partial summary judgment (25 June 2025): the licensing market argument (Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 3:23-cv-03417-VC (N.D. Cal. June 25, 2025), Dkt. 598, at 27)
- Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, order on cross-motions for partial summary judgment (25 June 2025): market dilution (Kadrey v. Meta Platforms, Inc., No. 3:23-cv-03417-VC (N.D. Cal. June 25, 2025), Dkt. 598, at 28)
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