Nov 6 (Reuters) - The owner of business magazine

Entrepreneur sued Meta Platforms ( META ) in California federal

court on Thursday for allegedly misusing its work to train the

tech company's artificial intelligence systems.

Entrepreneur Media said in the lawsuit that Meta copied its

business strategy books, professional development guides and

other instructional materials to train its Llama large language

models to generate competing content.

Spokespeople for Meta did not immediately respond to a

request for comment.

"Rather than licensing or even purchasing copies of

Entrepreneur's work, Meta - one of the largest, most well-known,

and wealthiest corporations in the world - chose to simply take

it," Entrepreneur CEO Ryan Shea said in a statement. "Stealing

is not innovation, and taking decades of copyrighted works to

train artificial intelligence is still stealing."

The lawsuit is the latest in a wave of cases brought by

copyright holders including news outlets, authors and music

labels against Meta, OpenAI, Anthropic and other tech companies

for using their work without permission to train AI systems.

AI companies, including Meta, have argued that they make "fair

use" of the material under U.S. copyright law by transforming it

into something new.

Santa Ana, California-based Entrepreneur said in the lawsuit

on Thursday that it has been publishing books and magazines on

business topics for over 50 years. The complaint said that Meta

pirated "at least hundreds" of its works to train its chatbots

to generate material that competes with the publisher for reader

attention.

Entrepreneur requested an unspecified amount of monetary

damages and a court order blocking Meta's alleged copyright

infringement.

The case is Entrepreneur Media LLC v. Meta Platforms Inc ( META ),

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, No.

3:25-cv-09579.

For Entrepreneur: Moez Kaba and Michael Purpura of Hueston

Hennigan

For Meta: Attorney information not yet available

(Reporting by Blake Brittain in Washington)