The judge chews out the plaintiffs pretty ruthlessly for setting the bar of their argument so low that he basically had to side with Meta.
"This ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful. It stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one." -Judge Chhabria
He then went on to spell out exactly what argument the authors SHOULD have made, and that other, smarter plaintiffs should consider themselves fortunate that THIS batch of plaintiffs didn't get a class action certification.
If you read into the judge's ruling...
The judge chews out the plaintiffs pretty ruthlessly for setting the bar of their argument so low that he basically had to side with Meta.
"This ruling does not stand for the proposition that Meta’s use of copyrighted materials to train its language models is lawful. It stands only for the proposition that these plaintiffs made the wrong arguments and failed to develop a record in support of the right one." -Judge Chhabria
He then went on to spell out exactly what argument the authors SHOULD have made, and that other, smarter plaintiffs should consider themselves fortunate that THIS batch of plaintiffs didn't get a class action certification.