Hunting Down Information
In Publishing News this week, Frankfurt Bookfair is on. This Bookfair, the largest in the western hemisphere, dominates the publishing calendar. Publishing Perspectives has a run down on the issues talked about on day one of the fair. Publishers Weekly reports that…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/10/hunting-down-information.html
#jamesscottbell #janicehardy #KMWeiland #KathleenSchmidt #pennysansevieri
Sharing Our Ideas
In Publishing News this week And back to court we go in the Anthropic AI court case. Publishers Weekly writes that the attorneys for the authors had to satisfy the judge that the right people would get compensation. Publishers Weekly have laid out what different sectors of the industry should expect in renumeration. The…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/09/sharing-our-ideas.html
Show Me The Money
In Publishing News this week Publishers Weekly reports on the latest Trump court case. He is suing Penguin Random House and The New York Times for $15 Billion. Penguin Random House published a book by New York Times journalists called Lucky Loser: How Donald Trump Squandered His Fathers Fortune and Created The…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/09/show-me-money.html
#angelaackerman #ColleenStory #DarcyPattison #jamespatterson #KMWeiland
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Who Owns Your ideas?
In Publishing News this week. Calling all writers who have been caught up in the Anthropic AI mess. The lawyers in the legal case against Anthropic want your name for a class action. If you have had books pirated, this is your must read article from Publishers Weekly. Act quickly you don’t have…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/08/who-owns-your-ideas.html
#AIcourtcases #GabrielaPereira #jamesscottbell #joannapenn #KMWeiland
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Feeling Besieged?
Just after I published last week’s roundup I read the article from Publishers Weekly about the US Presidents comments on copyright. (Substack subscriber readers got the news early.) Last month the UK voted down a transparency law that would have required tech companies to compensate owners of…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/07/feeling-besieged.html
#AIandcopyrightlaws #dictation #KMWeiland #KathleenSchmidt #rachelthompson
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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
#angelaackerman #jamesscottbell #JohnnyBTruant #KMWeiland #Marykole
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Can You Trust The Source?
In Publishing News this week, I’m a day late this week in publishing the blog. As I was putting it together, I heard that Stephen Colbert’s show is being axed. Many in the media are dismayed with the defunding of public journalism PBS and NPR this week. The Colbert show axing coming on the heels…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/07/can-you-trust-source.html
#jamesscottbell #joannapenn #KMWeiland #KathleenSchmidt #NotebookLM
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Proclaiming Our Intentions
In Publishing News this week. After nine years in operation and beginning the modern serial publishing format Radish has announced they are closing their doors at the end of the year. Commentators have been noting the quiet demise of serial format sites lately. Many have linked it…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/07/proclaiming-our-intentions.html
#allianceofIndependentauthors #Bologna #KMWeiland #KathleenSchmidt #reedsy
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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
#beccapuglisi #JohnnyBTruant #KMWeiland #MarkWilliams #rachelthompson
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The Courage To Be Creative
In Publishing News this week, A new press has launched reports The Guardian. Conduit books seek to only publish books by men as they are being “overlooked with the perception that the male voice is problematic.” The founder hopes the press will help to change the narrative that boys and men…
https://www.maureencrisp.com/2025/05/the-courage-to-be-creative.html
#DonaldMaass #Emilyenger #joannapenn #KMWeiland #KathleenSchmidt
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