Is There Another Way?

In Publishing News this week, It’s Summer in the Northern Hemisphere so everyone is on vacation. However, there are a few interesting things to think about. In Brazil they have just wrapped up a Book Fair which had a publishers and booksellers side event to the main public event. Publishing…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/07/is-there-another-way.html

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Is There Another Way?

Who Has The Power?

In Publishing News this week, The first of the AI lawsuits has been decided with a Californian Federal Judge handing down a pre-trial ruling that the Anthropic company was using fair use to train its AI using copyrighted material. However, the fact that they used pirated material was a problem. Read the…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/06/who-has-power.html

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Who Has The Power?

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Not the most recent (released in 2022), but quite short and very enjoyable: Burnout by #SeanPlatt and #JohnnyBTruant.
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Burnout

Cutter Dunn was born a ghost. Unchipped and unregistered, he exists as a nonperson, living off-the-grid, unrecognized by the facial recognition software built into every smart glass device that provides everyone with everything they want and need. According to the official system, he doesn't even exist. He has the skills and out-of-the-box perspective to design the nuts-and-bolts mechanism for...

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