{"id":18319,"date":"2025-03-31T13:37:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/authors-call-for-uk-government-to-hold-meta-accountable-for-copyright-infringement\/"},"modified":"2025-03-31T13:37:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T11:37:21","slug":"authors-call-for-uk-government-to-hold-meta-accountable-for-copyright-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/authors-call-for-uk-government-to-hold-meta-accountable-for-copyright-infringement\/","title":{"rendered":"Authors call for UK government to hold Meta accountable for copyright infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I am a crime writer, I understand theft,\u2019 said Val McDermid \u2013 joining Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kate Mosse in their appeal to Lisa Nandy to act on their behalf<\/p>\n<p>A group of prominent authors including Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Mosse and Val McDermid have signed an open letter calling on the UK government to hold Meta accountable over its use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/protect-authors-livelihoods-from-the-unlicensed-use-of-their-work-in-ai-training?recruiter=1252463513&amp;recruited_by_id=f1fc2070-89ae-11ec-b54c-89d6001d50bd&amp;utm_source=share_petition&amp;utm_campaign=petition_dashboard&amp;utm_medium=copylink%20\">The letter<\/a> asked Lisa Nandy, the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, to summon Meta senior executives to parliament.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2025\/mar\/31\/authors-call-for-uk-government-to-hold-meta-accountable-for-copyright-infringement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/90f74bdcabb7dcf4a1aa833702ce9e916be294ce\/0_0_2560_1536\/master\/2560.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e18a4f76d60fba96f6e89223823d5e55\" title=\"Authors call for UK government to hold Meta accountable for copyright infringement\" \/>\u2018I am a crime writer, I understand theft,\u2019 said Val McDermid \u2013 joining Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kate Mosse in their appeal to Lisa Nandy to act on their behalf<br \/>\nA group of prominent authors including Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Mosse and Val McDermid have signed an open letter calling on the UK government to hold Meta accountable over its use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence.<br \/>\nThe letter asked Lisa Nandy, the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, to summon Meta senior executives to parliament. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018I am a crime writer, I understand theft,\u2019 said Val McDermid \u2013 joining Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kate Mosse in their appeal to Lisa Nandy to act on their behalf A group of prominent authors including Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Mosse and Val McDermid have signed an open letter calling on the UK &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/31\/authors-call-for-uk-government-to-hold-meta-accountable-for-copyright-infringement\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Authors call for UK government to hold Meta accountable for copyright infringement<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}