Background
France’s principal publishing and authors’ organisations, the Syndicat national de l’édition (SNE), the Société des Gens de Lettres (SGDL) and the Syndicat national des auteurs et des compositeurs (SNAC), announced the filing of a civil action before the Paris Judicial Court against Meta Platforms, Inc. The claim alleges that Meta used protected literary works without authorisation to develop its generative AI systems. The filing requests recognition of copyright infringement and court orders for the removal of unlicensed datasets used for AI training.
AI interaction
The SNE communiqué specifies that the organisations are acting “devant la 3e chambre du Tribunal judiciaire de Paris en raison d’une utilisation massive d’œuvres sous droits, sans autorisation de leurs auteurs et éditeurs, afin d’entraîner son modèle d’intelligence artificielle générative” (“massive use of copyright-protected works, without the authors’ and publishers’ authorisation, to train its generative AI model”). It further states that the plaintiffs seek “le retrait complet des répertoires de données créés sans autorisation et utilisés pour entraîner les IA” (“complete removal of data repositories created without authorisation and used to train AI”). These statements delineate the alleged conduct and the precise relief sought, situating the dispute within the broader question of dataset provenance, consent, and transparency obligations in the development of foundation models.
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