As always Brooke, I so appreciate the information you share with us. You're a true advocate and we're lucky to have you at the helm. Thanks for the knowledge you share and all the work you do to keep abreast of what's going on!
Glad these authors are (hopefully) getting their dues. I have to wonder, though, with 7.5 million books stolen, what will happen with other authors, including those with more recent titles.
Brooke, thank you for taking the time when you have so much else on your plate to research and write thoughtfully about these issues. And thank you, too, for your integrity. You make me proud to be a She Writes Press author.
Love your article, Brooke. FYI, Greenleaf has been owned by private equity for several years so - while this is a new arrangement and a new firm - I'd argue any changes from being owned by private equity have already happened previous to this sales.
DJT's suit made me laugh (and wince). His lawyers are making a fortune filing so many deadend lawsuits. Thank you for all of the information. I'm really getting a lot out of reading your essays on memoirs! My spouse is working on a memoir and he pointed me toward your substack.
About The Stable - the website lists the individual publishers and has an FAQ for Authors but doesn't say what each individual publisher is looking for. Should an author look up each press? Most of the books on the website are nonfiction. Thanks in advance!
Richard Donnelly, appreciate your comment, because it reminds us that this is a skirmish that begins to claw back some of the infringements by AI and capitalistic tech. AND, it's a huge deal. Not the money necessarily, but the principle. And an encouragement to keep this issue in front of legislatures, media--for all concerned to advocate, call as some people here have done, etc. This is a most discouraging time, maybe the most discouraging in my lifetime, on so many fronts, but we have to keep speaking up.
Why thanks Jan Johnson : ) The legal future looks to be devilishly complicated. For instance, AI cannot be a copyright holder. So who do you sue for copyright infringement? And AI users will likely claim they acquired their work from AI. Not you. So are they off the hook?
Thanks Brooke. By data scraping and publishing others' work on the internet, often extensively and verbatim (or with tiny changes), AI is committing copyright violations all the time. "Authors" who publish using this copyrighted work are also guilty. This is of far greater concern than the Anthropic lawsuit, which does not address any of this.
People are going to use unregulated technology. So yes, you can argue we're all guilty, but I don't blame the users. I blame the people who gave us AI since the only way to create the technology was to steal people's words. Blaming the users is a tried and true strategy for sure, but it fails to address power dynamics we overlook who gets hurt when we prioritize profits over people.
You don't copy others, a bedrock principal of all intellectual endeavor, and we're not all guilty. I don't do it. You don't do it. At least that's two of us : )
Yeah, I have 7 books on the Libgen list, 5 of which I later discovered the publisher hadn’t filed a copyright. One where they “claim” they did but that the US Patent office failed to process them (hmm, really? No way to know).Two with Bloomsbury that met all the criteria (including filed copyright in the time frame) and still they somehow aren’t on the Anthropic final list. Pretty disappointing all around. I called their helpline and the person I spoke to seemed barely conscious which was strange. Feeling pretty low about publishing right now and didn’t think I could feel much lower.
As always Brooke, I so appreciate the information you share with us. You're a true advocate and we're lucky to have you at the helm. Thanks for the knowledge you share and all the work you do to keep abreast of what's going on!
Glad these authors are (hopefully) getting their dues. I have to wonder, though, with 7.5 million books stolen, what will happen with other authors, including those with more recent titles.
Brooke, thank you for taking the time when you have so much else on your plate to research and write thoughtfully about these issues. And thank you, too, for your integrity. You make me proud to be a She Writes Press author.
Always so informative. Much appreciated.
As usual, Brooke, you’re a source of excellent insider information, a guiding light in dark times. Many thanks for this succinct recap.
Thank you, Brooke, for bringing so much information to our attention. I filed because of you. And yes, Lucky Loser is a great title!
Love your article, Brooke. FYI, Greenleaf has been owned by private equity for several years so - while this is a new arrangement and a new firm - I'd argue any changes from being owned by private equity have already happened previous to this sales.
Thanks, Holly. I didn't know that until this week. There's so much PE in publishing. :(
:( indeed
I was just reading and wondering about Greenleaf/Amplify, and this helps clarify things. Thanks for sharing what you know!
DJT's suit made me laugh (and wince). His lawyers are making a fortune filing so many deadend lawsuits. Thank you for all of the information. I'm really getting a lot out of reading your essays on memoirs! My spouse is working on a memoir and he pointed me toward your substack.
About The Stable - the website lists the individual publishers and has an FAQ for Authors but doesn't say what each individual publisher is looking for. Should an author look up each press? Most of the books on the website are nonfiction. Thanks in advance!
Richard Donnelly, appreciate your comment, because it reminds us that this is a skirmish that begins to claw back some of the infringements by AI and capitalistic tech. AND, it's a huge deal. Not the money necessarily, but the principle. And an encouragement to keep this issue in front of legislatures, media--for all concerned to advocate, call as some people here have done, etc. This is a most discouraging time, maybe the most discouraging in my lifetime, on so many fronts, but we have to keep speaking up.
Why thanks Jan Johnson : ) The legal future looks to be devilishly complicated. For instance, AI cannot be a copyright holder. So who do you sue for copyright infringement? And AI users will likely claim they acquired their work from AI. Not you. So are they off the hook?
Thanks Brooke. By data scraping and publishing others' work on the internet, often extensively and verbatim (or with tiny changes), AI is committing copyright violations all the time. "Authors" who publish using this copyrighted work are also guilty. This is of far greater concern than the Anthropic lawsuit, which does not address any of this.
People are going to use unregulated technology. So yes, you can argue we're all guilty, but I don't blame the users. I blame the people who gave us AI since the only way to create the technology was to steal people's words. Blaming the users is a tried and true strategy for sure, but it fails to address power dynamics we overlook who gets hurt when we prioritize profits over people.
You don't copy others, a bedrock principal of all intellectual endeavor, and we're not all guilty. I don't do it. You don't do it. At least that's two of us : )
Yeah, I have 7 books on the Libgen list, 5 of which I later discovered the publisher hadn’t filed a copyright. One where they “claim” they did but that the US Patent office failed to process them (hmm, really? No way to know).Two with Bloomsbury that met all the criteria (including filed copyright in the time frame) and still they somehow aren’t on the Anthropic final list. Pretty disappointing all around. I called their helpline and the person I spoke to seemed barely conscious which was strange. Feeling pretty low about publishing right now and didn’t think I could feel much lower.
You own your work and have all the same rights regardless of any filing.