# Publishing houses Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage joined forces with bestselling author Scott Turow to file a class-action lawsuit on Tuesday.

*genai · news · 2026-05-05 · NPR*

## Key points

- Meta allegedly copied copyrighted books and articles from pirate sites like LibGen to train Llama AI.
- The complaint claims Mark Zuckerberg personally authorized halting licensing deals for copyrighted works in April 2023.
- The class action could include all owners of registered book copyrights with ISBN or journal article DOIs or ISSNs.
- Plaintiffs seek statutory damages, a permanent injunction, and destruction of Meta's allegedly infringing AI training data.
- Previous AI copyright lawsuits, such as against Anthropic, ended in billion-dollar settlements after initial fair use rulings.

**Companies:** Meta, Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier, Cengage, S.C.R.I.B.E
**Countries:** United States

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