AI

In a nutshell: a settlement is more likely if it's narrowly tailored to the piracy issue and the court finds it fair, reasonable and adequate.

The Portland, Oregon-based company partners with Hume AI and ElevenLabs to offer authors AI-generated voices or human voice clones.

Anthropic has decided to settle out of court. Everyone involved has so far declined to comment, and terms have yet to be disclosed.

The plaintiffs’ attorneys are now collecting contact information from all authors and publishers who may be part of the class.

AI advocates argue that class certification could potentially force a settlement that could cripple both the company and the broader AI sector.

Authors can decide if they wish to opt in; if they agree, they’ll be paid a 20 percent royalty rate.

With a focus on quality over quantity, the UK company offers “publish ready” translations in five languages at an affordable price.

Your responses will help educate writers and everyone in the profession about prevailing attitudes toward AI.

I spoke to agents and publishers to ask how much evidence of AI use they’re seeing in submitted materials and why they ask about AI use at the query stage.

Following a Congressional hearing on AI, Senators Josh Hawley and Richard Blumenthal proposed the AI Accountability and Personal Data Protection Act.

The judge has now ruled that the case can move forward as a class action, with a trial scheduled for December to determine damages.

A sci-fi writer explores how AI can help keep her scenarios grounded in reality and maintain a story bible for world-building consistency.

The appeal cites the other AI case, the one against Meta, where a judge ruled that training on pirated works might be considered fair.

We talked with three experts about how much book publishers or authors should be concerned about AI overtaking conventional search.

But blanket prohibitions aren’t going to save the publishing industry, nor are they likely to be adopted by the biggest publishers.

While the same issue lies at the heart of both cases and both judges found in favor of AI companies, the rulings are quite different from one another.

The judge finds training LLM models on authors’ books to be “spectacularly” transformative, a key factor for fair (legal) use.

A Harvard-based institution is working with libraries and museums around the world on making their collections available for training by AI.

Social media exploded this week when readers posted pictures of a summer reading guide recommending nonexistent titles by real authors.

Nearly half of authors now use AI in their creative process—including writing, research, and marketing—even if they don’t admit it publicly.

Audible will offer AI production technology to select publishers, first for narration and later for translated narration.

The latest report says that certain uses of AI models may affect the market for copyrighted work, going beyond fair use boundaries.

AI copyediting tools are a mixed bag, performing some mechanical tasks well but with a tendency to introduce errors and flatten author voice.

While concerned about AI’s impact on publishing economics and discoverability, Keith Riegert remains optimistic about the enduring value of human-created content in an increasingly digital world.

Some of these cases are class-action and include any writers whose work was used for AI training without permission or licensing.