Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Zuckerberg

Five publishers and Scott Turow have filed a class-action lawsuit accusing Meta and Mark Zuckerberg of infringing authors’ copyrights.

Five publishers and Scott Turow have sued Meta and Mark Zuckerberg in a class-action lawsuit accusing the technology company and its founder and chief executive of infringing authors’ copyrights, according to a New York Times summary of the case.

The available summary identifies the central allegation but does not provide the names of the publishers, the court where the case was filed, the works at issue or the remedy being sought. It also does not include a response from Meta or Zuckerberg.

The case puts a major technology company and its chief executive directly opposite publishers and an author in a copyright fight framed around alleged infringement of authors’ rights. Because the available source material is limited to the lawsuit’s existence and broad accusation, the specific legal theory and the scope of the proposed class remain unclear.

Further details from the complaint, court docket or statements from the parties would be needed to assess the claims, the potential class of authors and how Meta and Zuckerberg intend to respond.