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Big Five Staff Tell WIRED AI Is Quietly Writing Publicity Copy and Agent Emails
WIRED reports that HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette staff are using LLMs for publicity copy, agent emails and marketing, often at executives' urging.
Publishers' AI Copyright Suit Against Meta and Zuckerberg Moves to California
A New York judge sent the Elsevier, Hachette, Macmillan, McGraw Hill, Cengage and Scott Turow suit against Meta to California, where six similar cases sit.
Judge Bars Authors From Relying on AI 'Dilution' Study in OpenAI Copyright Case
Judge Sidney H. Stein granted, without opposition, OpenAI and Microsoft's motion to bar class plaintiffs from relying on a paper about AI diluting the book market.
Anthropic Tells Australia's AI Inquiry That Licensing Everything It Trains On Is 'Technically Impossible'
At an Australian parliamentary AI hearing, Anthropic said current copyright law makes local model training impossible. Creative groups said the law should stay as it is.
German Publishers Open Frankfurt With an Appeal for AI Training Transparency
As Frankfurter Buchmesse opens, the Börsenverein published the Frankfurt Appeal, backed by 120 publishers, asking EU and German lawmakers to force AI firms to disclose training data.
Third Circuit: Training AI on Westlaw Headnotes Was Not Fair Use
The Third Circuit affirmed that ROSS Intelligence's copying of 2,243 Westlaw headnotes to train a competing legal-search AI was not fair use.
An AI Question Disappears From a Copyright Application. The Disclosure Rule Hasn't.
A small-press publisher says an AI question was missing from a U.S. Copyright Office application this week. The Office's 2023 rule requiring authors to disclose AI-generated material is still in force.
ASA Calls on Australia to Address AI Theft of Authors' Work
The Australian Society of Authors asked two parliamentary inquiries to make AI companies license copyright work in Australia, or let rightsholders sue here no matter where a model was trained.
Anthropic Settlement Extends the Allocation Window to 60 Days
The settlement administrator extended the co-claimant allocation window from 30 to 60 days and expects the first payments on or before November 15, 2026.
BISG and BookNet Canada Release Their 2026 AI-Use Report
The second annual BISG and BookNet Canada survey of 771 publishing professionals finds organizational AI use at 63%, up from 48%, while individual use fell to 38%.
Authors Guild Asks Publishers to Share More of the Anthropic Settlement
The Authors Guild wants publishers to drop claims on long out-of-print books and to pay authors when a house failed to register the copyright in time.
Académie Goncourt Removes Thélyson Orélien's Novel Over AI and Plagiarism Findings
France's Académie Goncourt dropped C'était ça ou mourir from its first Prix Goncourt selection, citing converging AI analyses and newly reported plagiarism in earlier work. The author denies using AI.
Writer Beware Shows How Personalized AI Scam Emails to Authors Are Built
Two botched scam emails reveal the templates, plug-in fields and step-by-step scripts behind the flattering AI-written pitches flooding authors' inboxes.
How to Prove You Wrote Your Book: Keeping a Record of Human Authorship
Publishers, retailers and the Copyright Office are asking about AI use. Writing tools are adding process logs. How to keep a record that shows how your book was written.
Authors' Lawyers Say Unsealed Records Show OpenAI Downloaded Millions of Books From LibGen
A summary-judgment brief filed September 17 alleges OpenAI torrented LibGen's full book collection in 2019. What the filing says, what is still disputed, and what authors can check.
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Artists are lawyering up against AI slop, and some are even winning
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