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Brazil court blocks Meta from scraping news for AI
A São Paulo judge bars Meta from using web scrapers to collect news content for training artificial intelligence systems, imposing daily fines for non-compliance.
In brief
A São Paulo judge bars Meta from using web scrapers to collect news content for training artificial intelligence systems, imposing daily fines for non-compliance. A São Paulo court prohibited Meta from using news articles to train AI systems, ruling the practice violates copyright law and constitutes contractual…
São Paulo court blocks Meta's news scraping
A São Paulo court on Tuesday, November 3, prohibited Meta from using bots to collect news articles, photographs and videos from Brazilian press outlets.
Judge rules scraping violates copyright law
The judge found that scraping news websites to feed language models constitutes reproduction of copyrighted works requiring prior authorization. Brazilian law provides no exception for data mining for commercial purposes, the judge said.
Meta faces daily fines for non-compliance
The fine for noncompliance is one million reais, approximately one hundred eighty-two thousand four hundred dollars, per day, capped at one hundred million reais, approximately eighteen million dollars.Meta has five days to challenge the ruling.
At a glance
A São Paulo court prohibited Meta from using news articles to train AI systems, ruling the practice violates copyright law and constitutes contractual abuse.
