May 26, 2023
A California federal judge permanently ended most of a photographer's proposed copyright class action against Meta over embedding features that misappropriated and altered his photos into thumbnails, questioning "who would be deceived by a photo that is clearly cropped and resized" the way other thumbnails appear elsewhere on Facebook.
October 25, 2022
A California federal judge tossed a copyright suit lodged against Meta Platforms Inc. by a proposed class of content creators over its embedding tool, ruling that the creators didn't adequately show Meta knowingly removed copyright management information or infringed protected images.
July 28, 2022
Facebook corporate parent Meta Platforms Inc. is urging a California federal judge to toss a copyright lawsuit against the tech giant over its embedding tool, citing the judge's decision last year to dismiss a similar lawsuit against Instagram.