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The tool, by software company Trilogy, helps agents and publishers evaluate unsolicited manuscripts—but are any likely to admit to using it?

Human translators will still be involved but only to edit the machine output in French.

The Guild argues that interactive chatbots represent a new format for books, with rights that must be negotiated and paid for.

These policies ultimately invite writers to lie about using LLMs if they believe their own use can’t be detected.

The companies have struck a three-year licensing agreement that allows users to create AI videos using more than 200 licensed characters.

The lawsuits accuse Perplexity of retrieving information in real time from paywalled sites without licensing.

In one case, the judge has ordered OpenAI to provide in-house communications about deleting datasets they used to train ChatGPT.

Sara Lloyd has been appointed to a new role to determine the publisher’s AI strategy across its English-speaking operations.

Last week in New Zealand, two books by esteemed authors were disqualified from competing for a national book award—comparable to the US National Book Award—because of AI artwork on the covers. But policies that disqualify AI work from awards or other consideration may not be sustainable for very long.

Can an AI-generated marketing report help save you time and brainpower for more creative writing pursuits? Yes and no, with some urgent caveats.

The Authors Guild confirmed that an AI translation is not copyright protected under current US law.

The Arizona law firm has no connection to the Anthropic case, but is trying to skim off authors in the class who may be unhappy about the current settlement.

Getty Image’s lawsuit against Stable AI, for scraping millions of images to train its software, has failed in a narrow ruling.

A new survey provides ample evidence that AI is being used by many writers across all sectors.

The suit, consolidated with several other cases from a range of authors, alleges that ChatGPT’s outputs constitute copyright infringement.

A new policy from Spotify about AI-generated content serves as example for what Amazon could implement regarding books, if they care to.

Beginning October 2, authors can check an online searchable list to see if their works are included in the Anthropic settlement.

The proposed split is common in publishing contracts for sharing the proceeds in copyright infringement cases.

One writer suggests that the antidote to ‘AI Slop’ is to bring our endlessly eccentric selves, resulting in idiosyncratic, unique outputs.

Judge Alsup has asked for more information about who is in the class and how the claims process will work before granting preliminary approval.

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.

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

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

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

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