Norway media take legal action to block Meta from using content

Norway’s main media organisations said Tuesday they had taken legal action to block Meta from enforcing new user terms which they claim threaten their rights to their journalistic content.

According to the 10 media groups, the new terms due to come into force on November 20 would give Meta — which owns Facebook and Instagram — the right to collect their articles, photos and videos, including those behind a paywall, and use them to develop artificial intelligence products, among other things.

“The fear is that the companies will use this power to secure rights over journalistic content,” the head of the Norwegian Media Businesses’ Association (MBL), Lene Eltvik Vindfeld, said in a statement.