The ACP, TWUC, and others lobby government to regulate copyright in the area of generative AI
Whether the consultation will have any effect is an open question.
Breaking up is hard to do: Cory Doctorow argues for the end of corporate concentration online in his new manifesto
What really exercises Doctorow is the monopolistic power Big Tech exerts in locking users into their services by means of exorbitant switching costs.
Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay file suit against OpenAI over alleged copyright violation
The suit would also have to prove that OpenAI's langauge models are indeed "infringing derivative works."
Burnaby, B.C., writer Logan Macnair’s new novel is a scabrous and frightening satire about far-right radicalization online
Troll is not a book liable to find a wide mainstream audience.
AI will revolutionize publishing, but not in the ways people think, says Thad McIlroy. That’s still not a good thing
Bleeding the humanity out of one of the most humanist endeavours remaining in our capitalist system – all in the name of soulless efficiency – is abhorrent.
Large-scale layoffs at Amazon include staff in the books division, says CEO
If Amazon is cutting back on its orders, that is sure to cause headaches for publishers entering the all-important holiday selling season.
Haters gonna hate: Elon Musk completes Twitter acquisition amid concerns about unfettered hate speech proliferating on social media platform
It's too early to determine what exactly Musk will do with the platform, though early signs are not encouraging.
In The Chaos Machine, Max Fisher identifies the social media algorithms that are causing our societies to crumble
There are no good solutions to the problems Fisher isolates in his book, but this frightening text highlights the importance of confronting these issues regardless.
“The grab continues”: TWUC joins the U.S. Authors Guild and other international organizations in filing an amicus brief in the lawsuit against the Internet Archive’s Open Library initiative
"IA is trying to paint this lawsuit as giant corporations (publishers) going after the little guy, but we see it as the opposite."
Putting the verse in metaverse: George Murray gets social with a private online network for poets
The new members-only social-media site aims to replicate the café or salon in a virtual environment.