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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Dana sez, A useful post for writers of any age or experience, but I confess I’m sharing it mostly because of Scalzi’s use of “atemporally appealing.” Which Heinlein certainly is. If I could boil down what I see as Heinlein’s Theory of Characters. It would come to these four lessons: 1. Your Characters Doesn’t Exist in…
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[From Publisher’s Weekly, who gives you three free articles before you have to subscribe, so you should be able to read this without hassle.] The catalog draws from a broad range of genres, including contemporary romance, science fiction, horror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, and adventure. Among the standout titles are the sci-fi saga The Vela: Part 1,…
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