{
  "id": 10708,
  "url": "https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/07/15/update-elsevier-is-suing-meta-for-whom-and-will-we-ever-really-know-some-thoughts-on-copyright-class-actions-claiming-to-represent-authors",
  "title": "Update: Elsevier is Suing Meta For Whom? (And will we ever really know?): Some thoughts on copyright class actions claiming to represent authors",
  "summary": "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.",
  "authors": "Authors Alliance",
  "category": "org",
  "topics": "copyright-ip",
  "orgs": "meta",
  "regions": null,
  "published_at": "2026-07-15T13:18:06.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-16T05:10:56.605Z",
  "source_slug": "x-authors-alliance",
  "source_name": "Authors Alliance",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.authorsalliance.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/10708",
  "original_url": "https://www.authorsalliance.org/2026/07/15/update-elsevier-is-suing-meta-for-whom-and-will-we-ever-really-know-some-thoughts-on-copyright-class-actions-claiming-to-represent-authors",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}