Kadrey v. Meta

Consolidated author suits against Meta regarding LLaMA training data; motion practice on fair use and direct infringement (placeholder).

Plaintiffs allege Meta trained LLaMA models on copyrighted works without authorization, including materials from shadow libraries (placeholder).

• Direct infringement via creation of training copies
• Fair use and transformative purpose of LLM training
• Market harm to licensing and derivative markets

Pending — no final merits holding (placeholder).

Early decisions focus on pleading standards and class certification; fair use analysis ongoing (placeholder).

Parallel track to other LLM training cases; tests whether Meta's open-release strategy changes market harm analysis.