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4 weeks ago | 
lithub.com | Maris Kreizman |s Guild
On Thursday, March 20, all of the writers I know were in a bit of a frenzy. That morning Alex Reisner at the Atlantic had published a piece about Llama 3, Meta’s AI model, and the astonishing number of pirated books on which it had been trained. Meta’s leadership, against the advice of their lawyers, had used LibGen, a pirate file-sharing site supposedly intended to make academic papers more accessible worldwide.
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1 month ago | 
downthetubes.net | John Freeman |s Guild |Stephen Walsh
Following The Atlantic’s latest news item about the use of pirated books by META, owners of Facebook, Instagram, Threads and WhatsApp to train their AI tools, we’re sharing some advice from the Writers Guild onaction writers in particular can take. Thanks to The Atlantic, You can now search a snapshot of LibGen, the Pirated-Books database that Meta used here. This search tool is part of the magazine’s ongoing investigation into the Library Genesis data set.
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1 month ago | 
musicbusinessworldwide.com | Mandy Dalugdug |s Guild
A federal judge has allowed a portion of an AI copyright lawsuit against Meta to proceed, rejecting the tech giant’s attempt to have the case dismissed entirely. In July 2023, comedienne and The Bedwetter author Sarah Silverman, Sandman Slim author Richard Kadrey and Ararat author Christopher Golden filed a class-action lawsuit against Meta and ChatGPT maker OpenAI, allegedly the tech companies violated copyright laws by training their models on copyrighted books.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
myemail.constantcontact.com | s Guild
News, Views & Thoughts from Sally Wiener Grotta Hello!If you've been following me for a while, you're probably surprised how different my new year's poem for 2025 is from my usual lighthearted January poem. But then 2024 was a rather different year. Or was it nothing more than the usual whiplash ride as history turned in on itself once again?
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
rand.org | s Guild |Matt Blaszczyk |Geoffrey McGovern |Karlyn D. Stanley
Key Takeaways Copyright protects only original human-authored works, including those made with AI assistance, but does not extend to works generated solely by AI. Training of AI models is potentially fair use, implicating the interests of rights holders and the creative industry. Legal uncertainty persists, especially regarding whether training new generative AI models is also permissible.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
courthousenews.com | s Guild |Josh Russell
Raw Story and AlterNet jointly sued OpenAI for using thousands of their news articles to train ChatGPT in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. MANHATTAN (CN) — OpenAI on Thursday won the dismissal of a federal copyright suit brought by digital news websites Raw Story and AlterNet, with a New York judge finding the outlets failed to identify an appropriate injury from the claimed copyright infringement.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
asja.org | Arielle Emmett |s Guild
Ongoing lawsuits in the U.S. and elsewhere are testing, and could eventually determine, the legality of the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in writing and content creation in the near future. An Oct. 30 webinar sponsored by ASJA will feature a panel of experts who’ll discuss the lawsuits and AI’s impact on copyright law and protections for writers. The webinar takes place 1:30-3 p.m. Eastern time. The event is free for ASJA members and $20 for nonmembers Register here.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
marketplace.org | s Guild |Matt Levin
The Authors Guild, the professional association representing published novelists and nonfiction writers, is set to offer to its 15,000 members a new certificate they can place directly on their book covers. About the size of literary award stickers or celebrity book club endorsements adorning the cover art of the latest bestseller, the certificate is a simple, round logo with two boldfaced words inside: “Human Authored.”As in, written by a human — and not artificial intelligence.
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Sep 30, 2024 | 
enworld.org | s Guild |Michael Tresca
…you grant us an irrevocable, nonexclusive, perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free, fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, distribute, adapt, modify, translate, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale, and import your Submissions, including any and all copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, industrial rights, and all other intellectual and proprietary rights related thereto, in any media now known or...
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
discoverlosangeles.com | s Guild
A medical crisis brings one man close to death-and to love, art, and beauty-in a profound and luminous novel by award-winning author Garth Greenwell. A poet's life is turned inside out by a sudden, wrenching pain. The pain brings him to his knees, and eventually to the ICU. Confined to bed, plunged into the dysfunctional American healthcare system, he struggles to understand what is happening to his body, as someone who has lived for many years in his mind.
