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The defense to the remaining direct copyright infringement claim will rest upon whether Meta’s harvesting of LibGen data to train LLaMA constitutes Fair Use under Federal Copyright law. Ditto for the data harvesting from copyrighted works in the matter of Microsoft and Open AI in New York’s Southern District.
Fair use is an affirmative defense to Copyright infringement. Generally, an individual or corporation may use copyrighted material for purposes of commentary, criticism, education, scholarship, or research.
