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Authors Are Opening Their Anthropic Settlement Notices and Finding Smaller Payments Than They Counted On
Much of the shortfall traces to a split with publishers and to old disputes over who holds the rights, and the Authors Guild says most of it can still be corrected.
Tennessee Psychotherapist Judy K. Herman on Caregiver Burnout After Dolly Parton's Passing
Four days before she passed away, Parton said she was dealing with health issues she "just didn't pay attention to" while watching over Carl Dean. The Chattanooga relationship therapist, 20 years in practice, sees the same pattern most often in high-achieving women, and teaches a 90-second breathing practice to interrupt it.
Vivi Tran's Vietnam War Novel The Porch Light I Leave On Began at Her Memoir's Book Signings
The author's new novel, continuing Where the Leaves Fall, follows Tim, a veteran struggling with PTSD and the effects of Agent Orange, and Kate, the Vietnamese refugee his family sponsors.
Destroying Books Is a Cultural Crime. Project Panama Destroyed Millions of Books with No Legal Consequence
Anthropic bought millions of books, cut them apart and pulped them after scanning. No court called it a crime. Destroying books is a cultural crime and no ruling changes that.
Authors May Have to Keep Records of How They Write Their Own Books
HarperCollins' chief executive says no software can reliably tell a human manuscript from an AI-assisted one, and that a book written with AI help might not be copyrightable at all.
Readers Cannot Tell Whether a Short Story Came From a Person or ChatGPT
In three experiments with more than 2,500 adults, the same story scored higher whenever readers were told a human had written it.
AI Research Tools Can Now Quote Princeton University Press Books Without Training on Them
The Press chooses which titles go in and on what terms, through a platform called Cashmere, and its refusal to license anything for model training still stands.
Bloomsbury Anthropic's $1.5 billion Copyright Settlement with Authors over 14,087 Titles
The Harry Potter publisher is due a multimillion pound payout from the largest copyright settlement in US history. The more interesting story is what it reveals about how a book's value gets counted once a machine has read it.
Leon Aryah Lewis Published His Debut Spiritual Memoir Thirty Years After Writing It
Inside Out: A Journey of the Soul, published by Landon Hail Press, traces one life as a soul's autobiography, exploring reincarnation, shadow and light, and the four decades of inner work that made Leon finally ready to share it.
Hollywood Producers Joshua L. Ritter and Joe Salwen Teach How to Write a Screenplay From the Other Side of the Desk
Two Hollywood producers with Netflix and Academy Award credits distill years of reading scripts into a practical Levenger Master Class workbook for aspiring screenwriters.
Army Veteran and Nurse Nik Nanoski Releases DUMB 31, a Post-Apocalyptic Novel Ten Years in the Making
The San Antonio author spent a decade writing a science fiction novel where survival depends on teamwork, not lone heroes, drawing on twenty years as a combat medic and nurse.
Ulrich Brugger's Eternally New Is a Contemplative Answer to the Self-Help Industry
After more than sixty years of writing, the founder of The Ojai Retreat has published a collection of aphorisms that sets itself against the formulas of modern self-help.