Meta won a lawsuit over its use of copyrighted books to train AI models, with a judge ruling the practice falls under fair use, marking a significant legal victory for the company.

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected a claim brought by 13 authors, including Sarah Silverman and Junot Díaz, that Meta violated their copyrights by training its AI model on their books. Judge Vincent Chhabria concluded that Meta had engaged in “fair use” when it used a dataset of nearly 200,