Court Grants Authors Contributory Infringement Claim Against Meta

U.S. District Court Judge Vince Chhabria this week granted authors leave to add a contributory copyright infringement claim alleging Meta seeded pirated books via BitTorrent to train its Llama model. The judge criticized plaintiffs' counsel for delay and doubletalk but allowed the amendment to protect potential class members from procedural bars. The case proceeds with a fourth amended complaint and expanded BitTorrent-related claims.