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Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg

It’s likely that as soon as you read the headline, you can guess what the lawsuit is about. Publishers Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Elsevier and Cengage, alongside bestselling author Scott Turow, are suing Meta and Mark Zuckerberg for copyright infringement, claiming that the company and its founder illegally used works to train its artificial intelligence program, Llama. As an author, I welcome this kind of action and hope we see a resolution akin to what happened with Anthropic .…