Copyright Alliance is urging Meta to withdraw changes to its business Terms of Service, scheduled for November 20. The group says the terms could let Meta collect business users’ content for advertising and artificial intelligence (AI) products without giving account holders a way to opt out.
The update applies to Meta products including Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, Threads and WhatsApp. Copyright Alliance CEO Keith Kupferschmid said the terms could allow Meta to collect content from business users’ websites, including material protected by copyright, and use it to train and ground its AI products. business users’ websites
Kupferschmid said Meta revised the terms after objections, but the changes did not resolve the group’s concerns. He said the revised language could still permit broad website scraping and allow Meta to disregard or bypass robots.txt, a protocol used to signal that scraping is disallowed.
Business account holders would have to accept the terms or close their accounts, Kupferschmid said. The Copyright Alliance represents the copyright interests of more than two million individual creators and 15,000 organizations in the United States.
