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- Oct 3008:11
Meta Delays New Commercial Terms Indefinitely After Publisher Backlash
Terms due to take effect today remain unimplemented on their effective date: a month of publisher opposition pushed a contract update into regulatory complaints and court proceedings, moving the effective date from October 30 to beyond November 20, with no new date.
- Oct 1720:07
Meta Updates Commercial Terms: From October 30 It May Scrape Business Customers' Websites to Train AI, With No Opt-Out
While other AI labs pay publishers for licenses or fight them in court, Meta wrote a "training license" directly into platform terms merchants must accept; if the clause holds, a tool merchants use to reach customers becomes a free source of AI training data.