Meta Pauses Terms Letting It Use News for AI

Overview

• Meta said on Friday that it has paused indefinitely the rollout of new commercial terms that would have let it collect and use journalistic content to develop and train its artificial intelligence.
• The company announced the pause three days after a São Paulo court issued a preliminary injunction that bars Meta from collecting news content without publishers' authorization; the lawsuit was filed by ANJ, Abert and Aner.
• Meta said it will keep its existing terms in place while it continues negotiations with media stakeholders and will share updates when available.
• The move follows similar legal or regulatory pushback in other countries, including a Norwegian injunction, an investigation by the UK Competition and Markets Authority, and Australia’s law requiring platform–news deals.
• Brazil's Congress is advancing an AI regulation that would require payment when AI systems use copyrighted content for training, a development that could reshape how platforms license news and how newsrooms earn revenue.