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Formed just a few years ago, the Copyright Claims Board is intended to help streamline smaller (under $30000) copyright disputes.

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Judge Breyer denies motion to dismiss in lawsuit v. Databricks and Mosaic for alleged use of books in early stage but not actual training of model Judge Breyer denied the motion to dismiss the Plaintiffs’ Second Amended Complaint in In re Mosaic LLM Litigation. Databricks and Mosaic argued that the complaint failed to state a claim of i…

Am headed to the AWP Conference in Baltimore tomorrow. If you are going, please stop by my Booth 121--there will be new coffee mugs to hand out!

Also, I've got a booth and so have plenty of room for a small press to share the space. DM me if interestested.

Looking forward to going to Baltimore for the AWP Conference in March.

We'll be at Booth 121, and am hopeful we'll have new coffee mugs this year!

Bernard DeVoto wasn't wrong in the letter linked below.

to Mr. Woodford to Mr. Woodford April 3, 1950 Dear Mr. Woodford: Of course you have my permission to use the quotation from The Year of Decision you ask for. Incidentally, I solicit you not to assist the growing c…

https://authorsguild.org/news/claimshero-and-anthropic-settlement-what-authors-need-to-know/

Predatory Opt-Out Scheme ClaimsHero Targets Anthropic Settlement Participants: What Authors Need to Know - The Authors Guild In recent weeks, a third-party law firm, ClaimsHero, has launched an aggressive online campaign urging authors to opt out of the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement. ClaimsHero—which has no litigation experience in federal court—is using online ads and other means […]

Copyright analysis of works is often as much a creative act as the works themselves.

The case that turned the justices into art critics In Dissent is a recurring series by Anastasia Boden on Supreme Court dissents that have shaped (or reshaped) our country. I. The artist formerly known as Prince It was 1981, […]

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.

Not sure that I agree with the article's title here--the problem was not that the company's *output* was itself a copyright violation, but that the *input* of millions of downloaded books is. And it is that input which is going to get them into trouble.

Anthropic wins key US ruling on AI training in authors' copyright lawsuit A federal judge in San Francisco ruled late on Monday that Anthropic's use of books without permission to train its artificial intelligence system was legal under U.S. copyright law.

So pleased to welcome New Directions Publishing Corp as a client.

New Directions Publishing New Directions was founded in 1936, when James Laughlin (1914–1997), then a twenty-two-year-old Harvard sophomore, issued the first of the New Directions anthologies.