News-May-10-2026

May 10, 2026 — This digest fills two AI-law coverage gaps from the prior week: a new publishers-and-authors copyright class action against Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, and Florida's enactment of data-center cost-allocation rules tied to AI infrastructure growth.

Contents

1. Publishers and authors sue Meta and Zuckerberg over Llama training
2. Florida enacts SB 484 data-center cost-allocation law

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Publishers and authors sue Meta and Zuckerberg over Llama training

A group including author Scott Turow and publishers Cengage, Elsevier, Hachette, Macmillan, and McGraw Hill filed a proposed class action in federal court in New York against Meta Platforms and Mark Zuckerberg alleging that Meta used copyrighted books, journal articles, and textbooks to train Llama without permission. The complaint alleges that Meta scraped and downloaded copyrighted works from the internet, including alleged pirate sites, removed copyright-management information, and used the works to train Llama models that can reproduce or imitate protected works and authorial styles. The suit seeks classwide relief, an injunction, statutory and monetary damages, and an accounting of Meta's training materials and methods, while Meta told CBS News that it would fight the suit and that AI training on copyrighted material can qualify as fair use.

See case page: Elsevier Inc v Meta Platforms Inc.

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Florida enacts SB 484 data-center cost-allocation law

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 484 on May 7, 2026, creating rules for large data centers as part of the state's response to AI-related infrastructure demand. The law directs the Florida Public Service Commission and utilities to develop tariffs and service requirements intended to ensure large-load customers pay the full cost of electric service, grid connection, transmission, and generation costs rather than shifting those costs to general ratepayers. The measure also reinforces local-government authority to reject data-center projects while allowing temporary confidentiality agreements during negotiations with prospective data-center developers.