Meta AI scraping terms have become the centre of a growing dispute between the social media company and publishers concerned about how their online content could be accessed and used. Meta has postponed the implementation of its updated commercial terms from 30 October to 20 November 2026, following criticism from publishers and digital advertisers. The […]
Meta AI training is at the centre of a new dispute over whether technology companies can collect online news content and use it to develop artificial intelligence products without negotiating separate licensing agreements. Updated commercial terms from Meta are raising concerns among publishers and legal experts because they appear to grant the company broad permission […]
A newly unredacted brief in The New York Times’ copyright case quotes Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science, Brent Hecht, calling AI scraping perhaps “the largest theft of labor in human history”. We look at what the filing actually says, the seven channels of scraping it describes, Microsoft’s own click-through data showing drops of up to 93%, how the quotes map onto fair use, and what publishers and AI buyers should do now.
A 92-page public version of the News Plaintiffs’ summary judgment brief, filed on 17 September 2026, quotes Microsoft’s Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions”. In full, the sentence forecasts how millions of people would see AI training. We read the brief and Microsoft’s own memorandum: the five stages of copying alleged, the datasets and counts, the “horse trading” between Microsoft and OpenAI, Copilot click-through drops of 83 to 93 per cent, the Bloom filter behind the “accidental cover up” line, and Microsoft’s 8.2-million-log defence.
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