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Update: Elsevier is Suing Meta For Whom? (And will we ever really know?): Some thoughts on copyright class actions claiming to represent authors

As we wrote in May, Elsevier is suing Meta over use of copyrighted works for training Meta’s AI models. It has a set of claims very similar to those in Kadrey v. Meta, but with a different purported class that includes authors and publishers who own copyright in academic journal articles and other academic works.

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Published: 15 July 2026
Source: Authors Alliance
Category: Field notes
Topics: Copyright & IP
Retrieved: 16 July 2026

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ethics.ai (15 July 2026), “Update: Elsevier is Suing Meta For Whom? (And will we ever really know?): Some thoughts on copyright class actions claiming to represent authors,” evidence record 10708, https://ethics.ai/record/10708 (originally published by Authors Alliance).

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