European publishers ask regulators to block Meta's new AI terms
10/21/2026 — 10/22, 20:21·2 sources (all)·2 reports (all)
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- The European Publishers Council has asked EU and UK regulators to block Meta's new commercial terms, set to take effect on October 30, over…
The European Publishers Council has asked EU and UK regulators to block Meta's new commercial terms, set to take effect on October 30, over concerns the terms would let Meta copy publishers' site content for its AI products. The request follows Meta's earlier removal of the word "training" from its commercial terms, which critics said changed wording without committing to respect robots.txt.
Latest turnThe European Publishers Council has asked regulators in the EU and UK to stop Meta from rolling out new business terms due to take effect on 30 October, which publishers fear could let the company copy their website content for AI products, The Next Web reported. The move escalates the fight between content owners and AI platforms over training data.
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The European Publishers Council has asked regulators in the EU and UK to stop Meta from rolling out new business terms due to take effect on 30 October, which publishers fear could let the company copy their website content for AI products, The Next Web reported. The move escalates the fight between content owners and AI platforms over training data.
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According to Ars Technica, Meta removed the word "train" from its commercial terms of service after backlash over its AI scraping, but did not add language committing to respect robots.txt. The report frames the change as a wording adjustment rather than a new undertaking on how it scrapes web content.
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