I don’t know that this will do a lick of good, but at least the AG tried. The gist. 1. First, we ask that publishers voluntarily withdraw their claim from books that have been long out of print, regardless of whether there is proof that rights have formally reverted under the contract. If a publisher…
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From the Authors Guild. (New York, September 21, 2026) Explosive new documents released last Thursday in Authors Guild v. OpenAI—the major book authors’ ongoing lawsuit alleging OpenAI and Microsoft illegally trained their products on copyrighted books—show that executives and employees at both companies intentionally broke the law and their disdain for human authorship. The brief…
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Saw this coming, as did everyone else, including, if you had asked it, ChatGPT. The motion and brief ask the court to rule that defendants OpenAI and Microsoft infringed on the authors’ copyrights by pirating their works, copying them to train their AI, and trading the books between them as currency, and to reject the…
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The Anthropic settlement, Part the Nth, this time from the New York Times. The link beneath the image is a gift link if you want to read it in full. Excerpts, with my comments in bold. The sum is gargantuan: $1.5 billion. But as thousands of authors wait for their cut of the largest copyright settlement in…
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The book lady.
Dolly Parton’s Children’s Literacy Legacy, from Publisher’s Weekly. Through her Dollywood Foundation, Parton created the Imagination Library in 1995 as a tribute to her father, who felt shame over his inability to read or write, something she believed prevented him from realizing his dreams. “Inspiring kids to love to read became my passion and my…
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I do love me some fore-edge painting, so naturally I was delighted to see this from Publisher’s Weekly: The story reads in part Sprayed edges—better-known as the province of deluxe YA and adult fantasy editions and BookTok collector culture—are making a colorful splash in middle grade. Publishers are giving mysteries, fantasies, and ghost stories patterned…
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