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Richard Osman urges writers to ‘have a good go’ at Meta over breaches of copyright

Richard Osman.
Richard Osman. Photograph: John Phillips/Getty Images

Richard Osman has said that writers will “have a good go” at taking on Meta after it emerged that the company used a notorious database believed to contain pirated books to train artificial intelligence.

“Copyright law is not complicated at all,” the author of The Thursday Murder Club series wrote in a statement on X on Sunday evening. “If you want to use an author’s work you need to ask for permission. If you use it without permission you’re breaking the law. It’s so simple.”

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