Meta: Meta has officially removed a controversial provision from its updated commercial terms. Under this provision, the company would have got broad rights to scrape data from external commercial websites to train its AI model. Legal experts had feared that its language might allow the company to use the content of news websites without payment.
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This sudden U-turn comes after sharp criticism from media organisations, legal experts and publishers. He believed that because of this clause, Meta could avoid paying licensing fees and could use copyrighted news and intellectual property unhindered.
However, Meta says that the changes made in the terms do not mean a change in the method of web crawling and the company has not increased the rights to use the content of the websites.
web scraping
Web scraping is an automated process in which large amounts of data is extracted from a website and saved in a structured form such as an Excel sheet, CSV or database.
Many experts, including James Grimmelman, professor of digital and information law at Neiman Lab and Cornell University, had raised questions on this provision. Their concern was that its broad interpretation could allow the content of meta websites to be used in AI training without payment.