# Copyright Alliance warns creative firms about Meta’s new terms of service > Source: > Published: 2026-10-29 13:30:00+00:00 Meta has been taking some heat recently for an imminent change to the terms of service for its business accounts – that’s anyone using Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp as a business rather than an individual. The heat is due to new terms that seemingly allow Meta free rein to scrape content from the websites of those businesses and use it to train its AI models. Initially, it was the news-publishing industry raising the alarm about this: [see Nieman Lab’s article from mid-October for a summary of those concerns](https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/metas-new-commercial-terms-will-allow-the-scraping-of-news-sites-legal-experts-say/). Now Copyright Alliance, which represents the wider creative industries including music, has [weighed in with its own warning](https://copyrightalliance.org/press-releases/meta-proposed-commercial-tos-updates/), including the potential impact beyond news. While Meta has made changes to its proposed terms, the CA says they’re not enough. “The revised terms continue to allow for broad scraping of websites and unjustified exploitation of content for generative AI purposes. They also allow Meta to ignore or circumvent protocols like robots.txt used to indicate a request to disallow scraping,” claimed CEO Keith Kupferschmid. “This is not just a news media issue. Virtually every organisation in the creative industry (and most other industries) has a business account with Meta to enable them to manage Facebook pages, Threads accounts, Instagram profiles, and WhatsApp channels,” he added. “The negative impact of Meta’s updated commercial terms would be so far-reaching that all businesses and creators with online content, such as photographers, newspapers, artists, you name it, would be adversely affected.” Meta has pushed back hard against the original criticism – “This is false. There’s no change to how Meta uses web crawlers,” [tweeted its comms exec Andy Stone](https://x.com/andymstone/status/2111101865769201850) earlier this month. The Verge then reported that Meta was [removing the specific section of the new terms that relates to scraping](https://www.theverge.com/tech/1013409/meta-removes-language-that-may-have-allowed-it-to-scrape-news-sites). But, according to Copyright Alliance, those tweaks are not allaying fears ahead of the new terms’ introduction in November. Keep a close eye on this one.