Norwegian media consortium files lawsuit against Meta over content-scraping rules
Major Norwegian publishers, including NRK and TV 2, have taken Meta to court, alleging the new terms let the platform harvest all their articles and videos, even behind paywalls.
A coalition of Norway’s leading media firms, organized under the Media Companies Association, has filed a legal action against Meta, claiming the tech giant’s revised terms for business accounts allow it to scrape every article, image and video they publish. The complaint includes broadcasters and publishers such as NRK, TV 2, Schibsted, Amedia, Polaris, Aller, Dagens Norsk, Mentor Medier, NTB and Hordaland Folkeblad. According to the association, the new rules also cover material hidden behind paywalls, giving Meta the right to use the content for training artificial-intelligence models without consent.
MBL chair Lene Eltvik Vindfeld described the move as an abuse of a dominant position that hinders the spread of journalism to the Norwegian public. The lawsuit seeks a judicial determination of whether Meta’s practices violate Norwegian law, making Norway the first country to bring such a case to court.
Why it matters
The case could set a precedent for how tech platforms may use news content for AI training worldwide.
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