News Summary: 10,000 Authors Publish Blank Book Protesting UK AI Copyright Legislation

Remember how I started the week by contrasting the Paris Book Festival, where threatened boycotts over AI flooding the market had forced Amazon to withdraw its sponsorship, with London Book Fair, hosted in the less radical home of the open letter?
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https://selfpublishingadvice.org/authors-publish-blank-book/

#authorrights #copyright #DataMining #DontStealThisBook #LondonBookFair

News Summary: Authors Guild Pushes Back on Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’ AI Feature

The news starts 2026 as it ended 2025, with Amazon's new Ask This Book feature for Kindle books. When I first reported on this, I had yet to see the response from authors. Thanks to a link in Jane Friedman's newsletter, I have now been able to read and digest a very robust…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/ask-this-book/

#AIfeatures #AmazonKindle #AskThisBook #authorrights #AuthorsGuild

"Die OA Revolution hat sich dem Thema angenommen..." Marc Lange stellt launig das Spannungsfeld #openaccess #vgwort #authorrights vor -- fühle mich mit Star Wars Referenzen gut abgeholt 🤓 Danke für den sehr unterhaltsamen *und* inhaltlich gehaltvollen Vortrag #oat25

Die Handreichung "Open Access und die VG Wort" gibt's bei @berlinup : https://www.berlin-universities-publishing.de/beratung/handreichungen/vg-wort/index.html

⚖️ $1.5B to Settle Stolen Books

#AI #Copyright #AuthorRights #TheInternetIsCrack #Anthropic #EthicsInTech #podcast

News Summary: Anthropic AI Lawsuit Moves Toward Settlement; Authors and Publishers Await Terms

The two stories in this round-up feature the Association of American Publishers. Nonetheless, both are relevant for indie authors, in the US certainly and quite possibly elsewhere. First up is possibly a major breakthrough in…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/anthropic-ai-lawsuit/

#AIlawsuit #Anthropicsettlement #AssociationofAmericanpublishers #authorrights #classaction
@indieauthors

#ClassActionLawsuit #USA #AuthorRights #Copyright

Bartz v. Athropic

A class action lawsuit against the AI company Anthropic, accused of downloading millions of pirated books to train their #AI model.

If your books were pirated by websites Library Genesis (“LibGen”) and Pirate Library Mirror (“PiLiMi”), the court certified that's where Anthropic got all their material. The suit against them can move forward.

Prosecutors are collecting information from individuals:
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/