On Thursday 3 April, we are planning a day of action to protest against Meta’s alleged theft of copyright-protected works and to showcase the strength of feeling amongst creators, with SoA members protesting outside Meta’s London offices.
We will be hand delivering a letter to Meta detailing our strong objections to their current use of unlicensed works to train AI, demanding that authors are fairly remunerated and that their consent is sought for all future uses. We will also be sending the letter to Meta’s headquarters in the US.
Actions speak louder than words.
Help us spread the word and make sure our voices are heard by flooding social media, liking and sharing our message or posting your own:
‘I’ll be asking META to #DoTheWriteThing on Thursday 3 April’.
Please tag your local MP if they are on social media.
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On Thursday 20 March, The Atlantic broke the story of how Meta has used the Library Genesis (LIbGen) dataset, which is full of pirated material, to develop their AI systems.
The revelations detailed by The Atlantic come against the background of the recent government consultation into Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Copyright and the #MakeItFair campaign which sees the UK creative industries fighting back against the proposed changes to copyright law, which would favour multinational tech companies, but irremediably damage the creative industries.
Following The Atlantic’s piece, we released an open letter addressed to Lisa Nandy, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and Chris Bryant, Minister for Creative Industries, Arts and Tourism, calling for government to intervene and stand up to protect UK creators against this mass-scale copyright infringement by global tech companies in the AI race.
