Meta plans to update its commercial terms of service on October 30, requiring business accounts to allow Meta to crawl and use content from their linked websites for AI training, with no opt-out option. The move could spare Meta millions in AI licensing fees, particularly affecting news publishers who are already litigating similar issues with OpenAI over fair use.
Background
News organizations are currently engaged in legal battles with AI companies like OpenAI over whether scraping copyrighted content for AI training constitutes fair use. Meta's new TOS could preemptively secure broad licensing rights through contract rather than litigation.
- Source
- Ars Technica
- Published
- Oct 16, 2026 at 11:41 PM
- Score
- 7.0 / 10