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| 17.08.2026 | Cusk’s Novel Life of M Publishes August 25: Portman Says They Met Only 5 Times | By Devin Culbertson
Published: Aug 17 2026, 4:57 AM EDT
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| 14.08.2026 | Danish University Releases DFM Mimir v1: 1B-Parameter AI Matches 4B-Parameter Rivals on Legal Data | By Zachary Chambers
Published: Aug 14 2026, 11:26 AM EDT
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| 21.07.2026 | Anthropic Copyright Settlement Gets Final Approval: $3,000 Per Book, No Binding Precedent | By William Chan
Published: Jul 21 2026, 7:14 AM EDT
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| 10.07.2026 | Anthropic Tops $1.2 Trillion on Private Markets, Passing OpenAI in Race to IPO | By Richard L. Wells
Published: Jul 10 2026, 11:27 PM EDT
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| 09.07.2026 | Media outlets seek ‘serious sanctions’ against OpenAI as deception alleged in copyright lawsuit | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
The New York Daily News, The New York Times and other media outlets are asking for “serious sanctions” against OpenAI, saying the company destroyed evidence and intentionally hid its ability to loc... |
| 07.07.2026 | Мой бот назвали «очередным поделием с ИИ». Комментатор прав | Моё лицо, когда я читаю про очередное поделие с ИИ
«Моё лицо, когда я читаю про очередное поделие с ИИ». Топ-коммент под моей прошлой статьёй: плюс четырнадцать, больше, чем собрала вся остальная ветка. Гримаса, кстати, знакомая. Я сам так ... |
| 26.06.2026 | AI Text Detectors Flag Polished Human Writing as AI: New Studies Expose a Built-In Paradox | By Shannon Harwood
Published: Jun 26 2026, 1:08 PM EDT
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| 23.05.2026 | Anthropic Funding Round to Top $30B: $900B Valuation Would Surpass OpenAI as Most Valuable AI Startup | By Kyle Belmonte
Published: May 23 2026, 10:56 AM EDT
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| 03.04.2026 | Star-Studded Lineup for Authors Guild Foundation Gala: Josh Gondelman to Host, Cord Jefferson, Christian Cooper Present | Authors Guild Foundation Gala, Apr 20 @ Cipriani Wall St: Percival Everett, Amy Tan & Dr. Carla Hayden honored. Dakota Johnson chairs. Josh Gondelman hosts.
This evening is about celebrating the power of writers—their ability to shape h... |
| 25.03.2026 | Judge Rejects Government’s Weak Attempt To Memory-Hole DOGE Deposition Videos | Last week we covered how the government successfully convinced Judge Colleen McMahon to order the plaintiffs in the DOGE/National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) lawsuit to “claw back” the viral deposition videos they had posted to YouTu... |
| 19.02.2026 | DOGE Bro’s Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT ‘Is This DEI?’ | Federal grants that had been approved after a full application and review process were terminated by some random inexperienced DOGE bros based on whether ChatGPT could explain—in under 120 characters—that they were “related to DEI.”
That’s ... |
| 20.01.2026 | Escritores acusam Nvidia de acessar 500 TB de livros pirateados | Empresa de chips recorreu a arquivos piratas do Anna's Archive (ilustração: Vitor Pádua/Tecnoblog)
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A Nvidia é acusada de usar 500 TB de livros pirateados do site Anna... |
| 10.01.2026 | This Week In Techdirt History: January 4th – 10th | Five Years Ago
This week in 2021, 60 Minutes aired some pure misleading moral panic about Section 230, while Parler (remember Parler?) was desperately seeking attention by pretending it didn’t need Section 230, and Ajit Pai grew a last-minu... |
| 18.11.2025 | Book Reports Potentially Copyright Infringing, Thanks To Court Attacks On LLMs | A federal judge just ruled that computer-generated summaries of novels are “very likely infringing,” which would effectively outlaw many book reports. That seems like a problem.
The Authors Guild has one of the many lawsuits against OpenAI,... |
| 31.10.2025 | Нажал кнопку – художник? Как нейросети меняют законы об авторском праве | В 2022 году случился «нейросетевой бум» – генеративные модели вроде Midjourney вышли из лабораторий и стали доступны широкому кругу людей. Уже несколько лет нейросети являются одной из самых популярных тем для обсуждения в арт-сообществе, в... |
| 17.10.2025 | Martensen IP Offers Critical Guidance on AI Intellectual Property Risks, Examples of Copyright Issues, and FAQs | Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and other large language models (LLMs) have rapidly shifted from novelty to necessity. They now assist with drafting articles, summarizing research, ge... |
| 25.09.2025 | Judge approves $1.5 billion copyright settlement between AI company Anthropic and authors | By BARBARA ORTUTAY, Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday approved a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half a million books had been illegally... |
| 08.09.2025 | Judge skewers $1.5B Anthropic settlement with authors in pirated books case over AI training | By MICHAEL LIEDTKE and MATT O’BRIEN, AP Technology Writers
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge on Monday skewered a $1.5 billion settlement between artificial intelligence company Anthropic and authors who allege nearly half million books ... |
| 06.09.2025 | Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5 billion to settle author class action | Anthropic told a San Francisco federal judge on Friday that it has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit from a group of authors who accused the artificial intelligence company of using their books to train its AI chat... |
| 05.09.2025 | Anthropic to pay $1.5 billion to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material | By MATT O’BRIEN, Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit by book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its ... |
| 14.08.2025 | Author Evie Able Introduces A New Multicultural Fantasy: Phoenix Ashe | Share
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| 20.07.2025 | This Week In Techdirt History: July 13th – 19th | Five Years Ago
This week in 2020, we saw a new breed of scammers start abusing the DMCA on YouTube, and a new evolution of copyright trolls abusing the DMCA to take down social media accounts and demanding money to reinstate them. We also s... |
| 12.06.2025 | AI chatbots need more books to learn from. These libraries are opening their stacks | Supported by “unrestricted gifts” from Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the Harvard-based Institutional Data Initiative is working with libraries and museums around the world on how to make their historic collections AI-ready in a way th... |
| 09.02.2025 | The New Frontier of Authorship: Navigating AI and Human Creativity | In the age of artificial intelligence, the landscape of authorship is shifting. The recent moves by Microsoft and the US Authors Guild highlight a growing tension between human creativity and machine-generated content. This tension is akin ... |
| 08.02.2025 | Microsoft предлагает авторам 5000 долларов за обучение AI на их книгах | Microsoft предпринимает новый подход к использованию защищённых авторским правом книг для обучения AI, предлагая оплату авторам издательства HarperCollins. Эта сделка проливает свет на то, как индустрия оценивает творческую работу в эпоху A... |
| 03.02.2025 | Гильдия авторов США планирует сертифицировать книги, написанные людьми, а не ИИ | Гильдия авторов США (US Authors Guild) планирует сертифицировать книги, написанные людьми, а не искусственным интеллектом. Объединение будет вносить эти работы в свою базу данных, доступ к которой получит любой желающий.
Проект под название... |
| 14.01.2025 | Created by Humans AI Licensing Platform for Books Launches with the Support of Bestselling Authors | Created by Humans AI Rights platform emerges from beta
Created by Humans AI licensing platform for books launches out of private beta with the support of Walter Isaacson, Douglas Preston, James Patterson, Susan Orlean, Sylvia Day, Viet Than... |
| 31.07.2024 | Entertainment industry gets behind new bill that will outlaw AI deepfakes
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One click below supports our mission to provide... | The entertainment industry today came out in support of a new bill designed to prevent people from using artificial intelligence to recreate a person’s voice or likeness without that person’s consent.
The bipartisan bill, “Nurture Originals... |
| 29.06.2024 | Руководитель Microsoft по ИИ: использовать контент, если он находится в открытом доступе в Сети, совершенно нормально... | Мустафа Сулейман, недавно ставший руководителем ИИ-подразделения Microsoft, считает, что весь контент, размещённый в Сети, доступен для использования в целях обучения ИИ, если только владелец контента не заявит иное.
На прошлой неделе Сулей... |
| 04.06.2024 | PASCAL HALL AUTHORS SERIES RETURNS FOR THIRD SEASON | Elliot Ackerman, Andrew Sean Greer, Emily St. John Mandel, Jia Tolentino, Alicia Anstead, Michael Chabon, Ayelet Waldman, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, and Morgan Lavoie. ROCKPORT, MAINE, UNITED STATES, June 4, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- The Lesher F... |
| 06.05.2024 | Battle of the Bots: Newspapers Take on OpenAI and Microsoft | A legal showdown unfolds as major newspapers, including the New York Daily News and Chicago Tribune, sue OpenAI and Microsoft for alleged copyright infringement. The newspapers claim that the tech giants used their articles without permissi... |
| 01.05.2024 | Восемь американских газет подали в суд на Microsoft и ChatGPT, обвинив компании в нарушении авторских прав | Microsoft и OpenAI столкнулись с новым иском по поводу авторских прав. Восемь газетных издательств подали в суд на компании, обвинив их в использовании «миллионов публикаций» без разрешения для обучения моделей искусственного интеллекта, ле... |
| 02.04.2024 | Nicki Minaj, Billie Eilish, Katy Perry and other musicians sign letter against irresponsible AI | A group of 200 musicians signed an open letter calling on tech companies and developers to not undermine human creativity with AI music generation tools.
The list of undersigned artists is so power-packed and wide-ranging that it could make... |
| 25.03.2024 | Publishers Secure Widespread Support in Landmark Copyright Battle With Internet Archive | The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization that aims to preserve digital history for generations to come.
The digital library is a staunch supporter of a free and open Internet and began meticulously archiving the web over a qua... |
| 27.02.2024 | OpenAI утверждает, что New York Times «взломала» ChatGPT, чтобы подать иск о нарушении авторских прав | OpenAI обратилась в суд с просьбой отклонить часть иска газеты New York Times об авторских правах. Компания утверждает, что газета «взломала» её чат-бота ChatGPT и другие ИИ-системы в попытке собрать доказательства для своего иска о нарушен... |
| 09.01.2024 | OpenAI назвала иск New York Times о нарушении авторских прав необоснованным | Газета The New York Times подала в суд на OpenAI и Microsoft, обвинив компании в нарушении авторских прав при обучении ИИ на контенте Times. В понедельник OpenAI опубликовала ответ на эти претензии, назвав иск Times необоснованным.
Как указ... |
| 28.12.2023 | Взлет GPT, Россия без Tinder и поглощение Activision Blizzard: главные новости года в сфере ИС | Этот год запомнится громким (но не совсем успешным) ребрендингом от Илона Маска, резким ростом популярности нейросетей, многомиллиардными патентными соглашениями и не только. Вспоминаем самые важные события в сфере интеллектуальной собствен... |
| 25.12.2023 | Apple планирует обучить свой ИИ на статьях в СМИ в рамках контрактов с издательствами на сумму $50 млн | Apple направила в несколько крупных издательств предложения о сделках, в рамках которых компания могла бы обучать свой ИИ на статьях в соответствующих СМИ. Apple отправила предложения Condé Nast (Vogue, Wired, Vanity Fair, Ars Technica, Gla... |
| 21.12.2023 | Лауреаты Пулитцеровской премии присоединились к иску против OpenAI и Microsoft о нарушении авторских прав | Группа из 11 авторов научно-популярной литературы, в числе которых лауреаты Пулитцеровской премии, присоединилась к коллективному иску против OpenAI и Microsoft. Компании обвиняются в нарушении авторских прав при использовании материалов дл... |
| 23.11.2023 | Авторы научно-популярных произведений подали коллективный иск против OpenAI | Группа авторов научно-популярной литературы подала иск против Microsoft и OpenAI. Истцы утверждают, что инструмент ChatGPT был обучен на их работах без их согласия. Как заявляет Джулиан Сэнктон, возглавляющий коллективный иск, он и тысячи д... |
| 22.09.2023 | Гильдия авторов США подала иск к OpenAI за нарушение авторских прав | Группа писателей в США подала коллективный иск в суд с обвинением компании OpenAI (разработчик ChatGPT) в нарушении их авторских прав. Заявление об этом опубликовано на сайте гильдии авторов США. Среди истцов – автор «Песни льда и пламени» ... |
| 21.09.2023 | Джордж Мартин, Джонатан Франзен и другие писатели подали иск против OpenAI за нарушение авторских прав | Американская гильдия авторов и 17 писателей подали групповой иск против компании OpenAI, которая якобы использовала их книги для обучения своих языковых моделей. Среди истцов — Джордж Р. Р. Мартин («Песнь льда и огня»), Майкл Коннелли (дете... |
| 19.07.2023 | Писатели потребовали у разработчиков ИИ не использовать их работы для обучения моделей без разрешения | Более 8000 писателей-членов Авторской гильдии США, включая Маргарет Этвуд, Нору Робертс и Майкла Шейбона, направили открытое письмо ИИ-разработчикам. Они потребовали у руководителей компаний OpenAI, Alphabet, Meta*, Stability AI и IBM не ис... |
| 09.03.2023 | Copyright Has Been One Of Life’s Certainties: But Will It Always Be? | Copyright seems to be a fixture of our legal, economic and social systems. For 300 years, it has formed the backbone of the structures used to incentivize and remunerate creators. During that time, copyright has been extended repeatedly in ... |
| 31.10.2022 | TikTok Blocks Z-Library Hashtag Pending Piracy Investigation | While movie and music piracy tends to generate the most headlines, the publishing industry is facing similar issues.
Pretty much every book ever written is available online for free, including through so-called ‘shadow libraries’.
Z-Library... |
| 03.10.2022 | Publishers Lose Their Shit After Authors Push Back On Their Attack On Libraries | On Friday, we wrote about hundreds of authors signing a letter calling out the big publishers’ attacks on libraries (in many, many different ways). The publishers pretend to represent the best interests of the authors, but history has shown... |
| 20.07.2022 | READING MATTERS Hailed as Illuminating Why Literature Makes a Difference | Reading Matters cover
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...deserves recognition and discussion in a variety of ways--from book clubs to college teachers seeking... |
| 05.05.2022 | Copper is building ‘the Instagram for book lovers’ | Any book-lover knows the feeling: the incredible novel you’re reading ends with a viscous cliffhanger, and all you want to do is gab with other fans about what might happen next, but none of your friends have read the book. You might find f... |
| 15.02.2022 | Google Should Ban Pirate Sites, Say Authors John Grisham & Scott Turow | In 2020, Amazon teamed up with publisher Penguin Random House and authors including John Grisham, Scott Turow and Lee Child to sue several pirate ‘Kiss Library’ eBook sites operating out of Ukraine.
Curious as to how such a lawsuit might pr... |
| 16.03.2021 | The PRO Act threatens my income, flexibility, and ability to be my child’s primary caregiver. As a freelancer, here’s why I’m against it. | Mary Kearl. Courtesy of Mary Kearl Mary Kearl is a professional freelance writer and marketing consultant.
As a freelancer, she enjoys being able to make more money, choose her own hours, and be an active caregiver to her toddler.
If the PR... |
| 11.03.2021 | Amazon reveals why it doesn't sell the e-books and audiobooks it publishes to libraries | Amazon is the only US publisher that does not sell e-books or audiobooks to libraries.
Amazon has published thousands of e-books since 2009.
Public libraries are a way for Americans to access books and media, some of which are paywalled by ... |
| 04.09.2020 | The Next Register Of Copyrights Must Realize That Copyright Serves The Public | Mike has written many times on this website about various shenanigans at the Copyright Office. An obscure government agency to many, the Copyright Office actually has a huge influence over copyright policy and law, from Congress to the cour... |
| 15.06.2020 | Is Internet Archive’s unrestricted lending of 1.4 million books legal? | Internet Archive announced last week it would end its program of offering free, unrestricted copies of e-books to readers during the coronavirus pandemic due to being sued by publishers for copyright infringement.
Since March, Internet Arch... |
| 05.06.2020 | Google ‘Promotes’ Pirate Book Sales, Authors Guild Says | The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual Property is actively looking for options through which the US can better address online piracy.
Earlier this year, it held a hearing to see what could be learned from copyright policies in o... |
| 14.04.2020 | Internet Archive to Senator: No “Emergency Copyright Act” Required, Fair Use Has Library Covered | On first view, making books, learning and other research materials available online during a nationwide library shutdown as a result of the coronavirus pandemic seems like a positive step. However, the National Emergency Library recently la... |
| 31.03.2020 | Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library is “Vile” Says Copyright Alliance | Millions of people around the planet rely on public libraries to seek out books and the knowledge and education they provide. Libraries operating in the physical realm are bound by obvious restrictions, including that they can only lend out... |
| 31.03.2020 | Publishers And Authors Misguided Freakout Over Internet Archive's Decision To Enable More Digital Book Checkouts During A Pandemic | It's been said many times over that if libraries did not currently exist, there's no way that publishers would allow them to come into existence today. Libraries are, in fact, a lovely and important artifact of a pre-copyright time when we ... |
| 31.03.2020 | Publishers And Authors Misguided Freakout Over Internet Archive's Decision To Enable More Digital Book Checkouts During A Pandemic | It’s been said many times over that if libraries did not currently exist, there’s no way that publishers would allow them to come into existence today. Libraries are, in fact, a lovely and important artifact of a pre-copyright time when we ... |
| 25.03.2020 | You Can Now Access 1.4 Million Books for Free Thanks to the Internet Archive | Students, teachers, and readers can now access over 1.4 million books for free as part of the National Emergency Library, a project launched on Tuesday by the Internet Archive to aid remote learning efforts.
Covid-19 has pushed millions of ... |
| 30.06.2019 | It’s the end of movies as we know them (and I feel fine) | “How Will The Movies Survive The Next Ten Years?” demands the New York Times, in a series of interviews with 24 major Hollywood figures. Good question! I’ve been asking it myself, here, for six years now. Very unlike music, television, book... |
| 01.02.2019 | The Authors Guild Declares War on Digital Library Lending, Libraries | The Authors Guild is America’s oldest and largest professional organization for authors. It’s also been fighting a 14-year battle to restrict books from being digitized. It’s now extending that fight to the library level — and in the proces... |
| 19.06.2018 | Judge Cock(y)blocks Author Faleena Hopkins' Demand Other Authors Stop Using The Word 'Cocky' In Their Titles | Romance novelist Faleena Hopkins recently turned the rest of the genre against her by deciding — with the USPTO’s blessing — she was the only person who could use the word “cocky” in a book title. Given the nature of romance novels, the str... |
| 18.06.2018 | The long Cocky-gate nightmare is over | I’ve been wanting to write about Cocky-gate for some time now but the story – a row between self-published authors that degenerated into ridiculousness – seems finally over and perhaps we can all get some perspective. The whole thing starte... |
| 06.12.2017 | Freelancers: Get ahead of the tax curve with this Philly-made tool | While the consequences of the 479-page tax bill currently under ominous development in D.C. are still being evaluated, some — like the Author’s Guild — already fear it could hurt independent professionals and freelancers come tax time.
Bill... |
| 02.11.2016 | Conspiracy Theories Run Amok Over Copyright Office Executive Changes | Last week, we wrote about the big news in the copyright realm, where the new Librarian of Congress, Carla Hayden, removed the Register of Copyrights (the head of the Copyright Office), Maria Pallante, from her job. Technically, Hayden reass... |
| 19.04.2016 | Authors Guild Petulantly Whines About How Wrong It Is That The Public Will Benefit From Google Books | Yesterday we wrote about the fairly unsurprising, but still good, news that the Supreme Court had rejected an attempted appeal by the Authors Guild of the really excellent fair use decision by the 2nd Circuit appeals court over whether or n... |
| 18.04.2016 | Supreme Court affirms Google Books scans of copyrighted works are fair use | A Supreme Court order issued today closes the book on (or perhaps merely ends this chapter of) more than a decade of legal warfare between Google and the Authors Guild over the legality of the former’s scanning without permission of million... |
| 26.10.2015 | How to protect authors over Google | - |
| 24.08.2015 | Some author groups ask DOJ to target Amazon | Several groups of authors, booksellers and authors' agents wrote the Department of Justice, asking it to investigate Amazon.com (AMZN) for allegedly harming the book market, consumers, and authors. But while claiming that the retailer has &... |
| 30.07.2015 | Authors Guilded, United, And Representing… Not Authors | One of the more Orwellian aspects of the book world is the number of publisher advocate groups calling themselves Author This and Author That. The Authors Guild, Authors United, the Association of Authors’ Representatives… their devotion to... |
| 09.08.2014 | Getting Orwell Wrong | I was ready to come to Amazon’s defense (and I will, eventually). In their long letter to the writing community, they made some excellent points. They inflamed our passions, gave us historical context for our discontent, and then quoted non... |
| 24.07.2014 | Why Does The Author's Guild Refuse To Even Acknowledge Views Of Authors Who Disagree With It? | Could the organization calling itself the “Authors Guild” (from its behavior, better understood as a lobbying arm for big publishing houses) get more fearful and brittle? In response to a typically lopsided AG blog post yesterday, in which ... |
| 24.06.2014 | Hypocritical Authors Guild Photocopies Author's Book While Claiming That Scanning Works Is Infringement | A few weeks ago, we wrote about the big win for fair use, as the appeals court ruled against the Authors Guild and said that libraries scanning books in their collection to make a searchable index is fair use. Hilariously, the Authors Guild... |
| 28.05.2014 | Amazon breaks silence in contract dispute with Hachette | More On: amazon
Ben Affleck, Matt Damon reuniting for biopic based on Nike exec Sonny Vaccaro NJ Amazon union petition withdrawn by labor group with alleged past mob links NJ Amazon workers set to vote on joining union with alleged past mob... |
| 17.04.2013 | Authors Guild Shuts Itself Off From Public Criticism, As People Realize It Represents Publishers, Not Authors | We’ve written numerous times about Scott Turow during his time as head of the Author’s Guild, and the amazing thing to me is that despite the fact he’s been getting blistering criticism from a variety of people — including tons of authors —... |
| 12.10.2012 | 7-Year Battle To Stop Google From Digitizing Libraries Is Ending With A Whimper | Google’s long-running fight to digitize the world’s written works has closed two more chapters, but the story hasn’t quite reached the end. Despite stakes that include millions of dollars of ad revenue for Google versus the potential loss o... |
| 11.08.2012 | Baldaur Regis' Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week | What has 500 thumbs and sounds like a murder of crows? A Twitmob, of course, and this weeks’ chatter of angry, angry birds featured a group of writers closing down a website…for helping promote their works. Oops. Don’t be too hard on them –... |
| 07.06.2012 | Barnes & Noble claims price fixing settlement will raise e-book prices | WarzauWynn reader comments 105 with 75 posters participating, including story author
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| 12.03.2012 | Author's Guild Boss On E-Book Price Fixing Allegations: But… But… Brick-And-Mortar! | No sooner had the Department of Justice announced its plan to investigate Apple and five of the Big Six publishers for e-book price-fixing than a representative of those benefiting most from this (alleged) collusion boldly stepped into the ... |
| 19.11.2011 | Dog Bites Man; Pope Condemns Violence; Publishing Still Doesn’t Get It | I’m an author, but thankfully I’m not a member of the Authors Guild, that “not-for-profit American organization of and for authors”, who a few days ago issued a statement that first lauded publishers for not signing on to Amazon’s new Kindl... |
| 16.11.2011 | U.S. authors: Kindle Lending Library is breach of contract | U.S. authors are not pleased with Amazon’s recently announced Kindle Lending Library and are claiming the powerful online retailer is “boldly breaching its contracts” with numerous publishers.
Amazon’s new Kindle Lending Library allows Kind... |
| 16.11.2011 | RIAA claims you do not own your iTunes music purchases | The Recording Industry Association of America and the Authors Guild don’t normally have much in common, but fresh salvos from both groups underline their continued resistance to modern forms of product distribution — even when said stubborn... |
| 16.11.2011 | U.S. authors: Kindle Lending Library is breach of contract | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
U.S. authors are not pleased with Amazon’s recently announced Kindle Lending Library and are claiming the powerful online retailer is “... |
| 11.10.2011 | Unfortunate: Novelist Joins Lawsuit Against Libraries; Would Apparently Prefer His Book Rot In Obscurity | After the Authors Guild decided to prove that it’s really against education by suing University Libraries, it also began a disappointing game of “gotcha”. Specifically, the Guild found J.R. Salamanca, an author who the HathiTrust had been u... |
| 19.09.2011 | Rather Than Fixing The Problem Of Orphaned Works, The Authors Guild Wants To Play 'Gotcha' | With the Authors Guild’s recent move to sue a bunch of university libraries for daring to make certain works digitally available to students as “orphaned works,” the latest move by the guild is to engage in a massive game of “gotcha.” It st... |
| 13.09.2011 | Why Does The Authors Guild Hate Education So Much? Sues Five Universities For Providing Access To Orphan Works | It appears that Scott Turow is really trying to cement in place the reputation of the Authors Guild as a luddite, anti-education, anti-learning organization. What a shame. A decade ago, the Authors Guild stunningly told its authors not to l... |
| 22.02.2010 | Google Books Settlement: An End Run Around Authors' Contracts and Copyright | In the controversy over Google (GOOG) Books and the proposed settlement for the class action lawsuit brought by publishers and the Authors Guild, a professional writers organization, most people focus on so-called orphaned works. There are ... |
| 08.02.2010 | Author's Guild Didn't Want To 'Pull An RIAA' But Still Misses The Point | Last week, in discussing its attempt to settle its lawsuit with Google over the Google book scanning project, the Authors Guild posted a rather interesting public letter, entitled To RIAA or Not to RIAA, That was the Question. In defending ... |
| 24.12.2009 | Ursula K. Le Guin Resigns From Authors Guild, Because It Didn't Keep Up Its Silly Fight With Google | Ursula K. Le Guin is a very famous author who many people insist is one of the best — though, I have to admit never having read her stuff. Yet, she is one of those who is rather aggressive in policing the copyrights on her work, and who doe... |
| 22.09.2009 | DOJ Shoots Holes Though Google Book Settlement | If any one business dealing represented the potential to reshape media, it's the Google Books class action settlement. The agreement has received some heavy criticism, though, clearly, the publishers and the one professional writers' group,... |
| 08.09.2009 | Resistance to Google book deal builds as Google woos Europe | reader comments 12 with 10 posters participating
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Last Friday, the deadline passed for formal comments from parties interested in the Google Book Settlement, but the flow of... |
| 29.04.2009 | Google Books Settlement under Scrutiny by Justice Department | Last October, Google announced that it had reached a deal with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, that would allow Google to scan, display, and sell advertising against out-of-print books. The advertising and subs... |
| 02.03.2009 | Amazon decides Kindle speech isn’t worth copyright fight | reader comments 38 with 31 posters participating
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Although both iterations of Amazon's Kindle offer a fairly polished e-book experience, the company is clearly interested in... |
| 28.02.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Facebook Principles, Amazon Public Data, Times Open, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we look into Facebook’s controversial new “principles”, check out the latest OpenID trends, cover Amazon’s public data initiative, analyze Wikiped... |
| 25.02.2009 | Authors Guild, Roy Blount Jr. still fighting against robo-speech | Infingement. That’s what Blount called Amazon’s text-to-speech feature.
Roy Blount, Jr., president of the Authors Guild, wrote an op-ed in the NYT today about the Kindle 2’s text-to-speech feature. Heavens to Betsy – we’re still talking abo... |
| 13.02.2009 | Authors Guild Digs Itself In Deeper Concerning Kindle Text-To-Speech | We were among many different sites that laughed at the ridiculous assertions by Authors Guild executive director Paul Aiken’s attempt to rewrite copyright law concerning the “right” for people with a legally purchased ebook to have a Kindle... |
| 11.02.2009 | Author's Guild calls Kindle 2's text-to-speech software illegal | Another day, another potentially disruptive technology called out by conservative and fear-mongering industry groups. Paul Aiken, director of the Author’s Guild, is calling the Kindle 2’s text-to-speech system a form of copyright transgress... |
| 29.10.2008 | Google settles book search dispute, joins Microsoft and Yahoo on censorship standard | Two long-running disputes involving the Web's most prominent search sites appear to be nearing resolution this week, with wins for both human rights and book lovers.
First, Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have jointly announced the completion o... |
| 28.10.2008 | Authors, Publishers Settle With Google Over $125 Million Lawsuit | The Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, on behalf of a broad class of copyright holders, will join with Google to host a teleconference today to discuss a settlement agreement that would expand online access to million... |
| 27.10.2003 | Authors Guild Worried About Amazon's Full Text Search | theodp writes “Amazon.com’s new Search Inside the Book feature is drawing skepticism from the Authors Guild, which says publishers did not have the right to make the contents of books available without the authors’ permission. Authors Guild... |
