{"id":15827,"date":"2025-04-01T20:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T18:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/british-authors-want-meta-held-accountable-for-copyright-infringement\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T22:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:03:18","slug":"british-authors-want-meta-held-accountable-for-copyright-infringement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/2025\/04\/01\/british-authors-want-meta-held-accountable-for-copyright-infringement\/","title":{"rendered":"British authors want Meta held accountable for copyright infringement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Several British authors are calling on UK Secretary of State Lisa Nandy to hold Meta accountable for possible copyright infringement. Meta, allegedly, used LibGen, a database of 7.5 million books to train models, and the authors are heavily against that.<br \/>\nThis is an argument that\u2019s been going on for a couple of years, but it feels like an ages-old struggle. Content creators are at war with AI companies that steal their content for use in their AI models. Right now, several British authors want the UK to government to hold Meta accountable for allegedly using a database of stolen books.<br \/>\nSeveral creators are battling against AI companies for the same reason. Many of them came to the realizations that their content had been secretly scraped to train their AI models. Not only that, but these AI models can create content that can put these creators out of business. There\u2019s the ongoing legal battle between The New York Times and OpenAI over this. We\u2019re not sure when we\u2019ll have some clear-cut laws regarding copyright and AI, but we know that the results from this case will set the precedent for cases going forward.<br \/>\nBritish authors want Meta to be held accountable for training its AI model on stolen books<br \/>\nA group of successful authors are now targeting Facebook owner Meta for possibly using pirated books to train its Llama 3 model. This is the company\u2019s latest and most capable model at the moment. The pirated books live on a dataset called LibGen, and it consists of more than 7.5 million books. If Meta used this dataset, then it might be liable to sue for copyright infringement.<br \/>\nThe Society of Authors, which includes authors such as Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Val McDermid, and Sarah Waters, signed letter to the UK Secretary of State Lisa Nandy, urging her to go after the company. The goal is to push Meta senior executives to commit to respecting copyright law.<br \/>\nAs put forth by the society, \u201cThese cases are shining a light on the unscrupulous behaviour exhibited by global tech companies which seemingly exploit copyright-protected material, safe in the knowledge that they will not be held to account.\u201d This is not inaccurate.<br \/>\nAt this point, there\u2019s no telling what the outcome to this will be. Hopefully, if Meta did train its model on stolen data, it will face some sort of consequences for its actions.<br \/>\nThe post British authors want Meta held accountable for copyright infringement appeared first on Android Headlines.&#013;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Meta-Facebook-logo-AM-AH-2-jpg.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\">&#013;<br \/>\nSource: ndroidheadlines.com&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Several British authors are calling on UK Secretary of State Lisa Nandy to hold Meta accountable for possible copyright [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":15828,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bez-kategorii"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15829,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15827\/revisions\/15829"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plus.maciejpiasecki.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}