Backlash grows to arts cuts in Nova Scotia’s austerity budget, with protests planned for Wednesday
The budget slashed $130 million in grants as part of an attempt to reduce the $1.2 billion provincial deficit.
Calgary Legion venue pulls out of contract for TWUC/WGA Freedom to Read Week event due to “conflict with Legion policy”
The plan for the event included discussion of censorship in general and readings from banned books.
Canadian media outlets file joint lawsuit against OpenAI and ChatGPT with requested damages in the billions
The lawsuit comes a week after news broke about multinational publisher HarperCollins entering into an agreement with an anonymous tech company to license the work of nonfiction authors to help train AI large-language learning programs.
Publishers and copyright advocacy groups lobby government for a meeting in another effort to address copyright law
Last week, a group of advocacy organizations, including the Literary Press Group, the Association of Canadian Publishers, The Writers’ Union...
Access Copyright, the ACP, the LPG, and other groups put pressure on new Heritage Minister to deal with problems in the Copyright Act
Putting too much hope in St-Onge's ability to get the copyright legislation changed may be foolish
Access Copyright gutted as government inaction on addressing flawed legislation persists
All of this testifies to a copyright system that is beyond broken.
TWUC celebrates “unequivocal” decision in summary judgment against Internet Archive’s digital lending scheme
Judge John G. Koeltl determined that there is "a prima facie case of copyright infringement."
Canadian stakeholders react to Judge Florence Pan’s ruling to block the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster
“We depend on a robust Canadian-owned sector competing well with regulated multinationals," says Rhea Tregebov, chair of The Writers' Union of Canada.
“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."
“We are in the epicentre of hell”: Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine spurs condemnation from writers and publishers in Europe and abroad
Groups of writers and publishers from Europe and elsewhere gather together in support of Ukraine following the Russian invasion of February 24.