This year's FediBookFair will be 1st/2nd November.

FediBookFair is a chance for #authors and #publishers to post about their books using the #FediBookFair hashtag.

#Readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow. It's an excellent chance to find #Christmas gifts.

Full details at https://AuthorHelp.uk/FediBookFair/

Boosts appreciated.

#author #WritersOfMastodon #writing #WritingCommunity #bookstodon

This year's FediBookFair will be 1st/2nd November.

FediBookFair is a chance for #authors and #publishers to post about their books using the #FediBookFair hashtag.

#Readers can watch or follow the hashtag to find #books to read and authors to follow. It's an excellent chance to find #Christmas gifts.

Full details at https://AuthorHelp.uk/FediBookFair/

Boosts appreciated.

#author #WritersOfMastodon #writing #WritingCommunity #bookstodon

Anthropic has agreed to pay a minimum of $1.5 billion to settle the lawsuit brought by a group of authors who sued the AI company for illegally using pirated copies of their books to train large-language models. This covers 500,000 works, but judge William Alsup says if the list exceeds that number, Anthropic must pay an addition $3,000 per work. This is the largest settlement in U.S. history. John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult are part of a group of nearly 20 bestselling authors who have sued OpenAI, alleging “systematic theft on a mass scale,” and this ruling could indicate the likely outcome of that case.

https://flip.it/tjGf17

#Technology#Tech#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#Books @bookstodon#Authors#Anthropic

The landmark #settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in #legal battles between #AI companies & the #writers, #VisualArtists & other #creative professionals who accuse them of #CopyrightInfringement.

#Anthropic has agreed to pay #authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 #books covered by the settlement.

#law#LLM #tech #art#IntellectualProperty

Anthropic has agreed to pay a minimum of $1.5 billion to settle the lawsuit brought by a group of authors who sued the AI company for illegally using pirated copies of their books to train large-language models. This covers 500,000 works, but judge William Alsup says if the list exceeds that number, Anthropic must pay an addition $3,000 per work. This is the largest settlement in U.S. history. John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult are part of a group of nearly 20 bestselling authors who have sued OpenAI, alleging “systematic theft on a mass scale,” and this ruling could indicate the likely outcome of that case.

https://flip.it/tjGf17

#Technology#Tech#ArtificialIntelligence#AI#Books @bookstodon#Authors#Anthropic

The landmark #settlement, if approved by a judge as soon as Monday, could mark a turning point in #legal battles between #AI companies & the #writers, #VisualArtists & other #creative professionals who accuse them of #CopyrightInfringement.

#Anthropic has agreed to pay #authors about $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 #books covered by the settlement.

#law#LLM #tech #art#IntellectualProperty

#ArtificialIntelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a #ClassAction lawsuit by #book authors who say the company took pirated copies of their works to train its chatbot.

#law#LLM #tech #art#IntellectualProperty
https://apnews.com/article/anthropic-copyright-authors-settlement-training-f294266bc79a16ec90d2ddccdf435164?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-09-05-AI+vs.+authors

"AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry."

Win win.
I just registered my name & book details with the appropriate law firm.

Check if your book/article/paper is on the list here:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/

If it is, go here:
https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_social-type=owned

#authors #books#AI

#AISlop #authors #authorsOfMastodon #writerscommunity #authorscam #authorsrights

You may have heard about the class action against Anthropic, who trained their models using pirated, copyrighted works (including mine):

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/authors-celebrate-historic-settlement-coming-soon-in-anthropic-class-action/

Since they are settling the suit, you may want to ensure you can be contacted by counsel; you may be owed damages. (Amount TBD. Don't get your hopes up, but expect more than zero!)

The Authors Guild has useful information on how this impacts authors and what authors need to do:

https://authorsguild.org/news/anthropic-ai-class-action-important-information-for-authors/

Please share this with any authors!

#writing #books #piracy #ai #legal