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The company "Meta" has revised its commercial terms, removing phrases that raised concerns among publishers and media institutions about the use of their content to train artificial intelligence models without licensing agreements, in a development that reignites the debate over the rights of journalistic content in the digital environment.

The amendment came after objections to formulations that were deemed broad in defining the company's authority to benefit from electronically published materials, amid calls for clarification on the mechanisms for using content and protecting the rights of its producers.

Meta confirmed that the changes pertain to advertising and commercial products, and that practices related to web crawling and data collection remain unchanged, in an attempt to separate the terms of commercial services from the use of content in the development of smart systems.

The debate arises as demands from media institutions for licensing agreements that guarantee their financial and intellectual rights intensify, especially as technology companies expand their use of journalistic production.

Despite the amendment of the terms, the issue remains tied to the clarity of licensing, compensation, and disclosure mechanisms, as tech companies face a test in balancing the development of artificial intelligence with the protection of content, amid questions about publishers' ability to retain the economic value of their editorial production in a market where the importance of information and data is increasing.