Chabon v. Meta Platforms Inc.
Summary
A group of prominent American authors—including Michael Chabon, Junot Díaz, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and others—sued Meta Platforms in federal court alleging copyright infringement. The lawsuit centers on Meta's use of the authors' published works without permission, likely involving training data for AI systems or unauthorized republication. The case raises major questions about tech companies' rights to use copyrighted literary works.
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Counsel of record
For the plaintiff
- Cafferty Clobes Meriwether & Sprengel LLPBryan L. Clobes
- Ventura Hersey & Muller, LLPDaniel Jerome Muller
For the defendant
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLPAngela Dunning
- Cooley LLPBobby A. Ghajar
- Court
- U.S. District Court, Northern District of California
- Docket no.
- 3:23-cv-04663
- Nature of suit
- Copyright
- Judge
- Vince Chhabria
- Filed
- 2023-09-12
- Last filing
- 2026-08-10
- Terminated
- 2023-12-07
Cause
17:504 Copyright Infringement
Entities in this case
Parties
Andrew Sean Greer Junot Diaz Jacqueline Woodson Laura Lippman Ta-Nehisi Coates Meta Platforms Inc. Ayelet Waldman Rachel Louise Snyder Matthew Klam David Henry Hwang Michael Chabon