Technology,
Intellectual Property
Sep. 26, 2024
Meta fails in bid to block Zuckerberg's AI testimony
Plaintiffs need not exhaust other forms of discovery before deposing Zuckerberg as they had sufficiently established his direct involvement in Meta's AI initiatives, U.S. Magistrate Judge Thomas S. Hixson ruled.
A federal magistrate judge denied Meta Platforms Inc.'s motion for a protective order barring CEO Mark Zuckerberg from testifying in a case brought by a group of creators accusing the company of infringing on their copyright by using their work to train its artificial intelligence software.
It came a week after the federal judge overseeing the matter in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California expressed concerns about the way plaintiffs' counsel were...
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