#authorrights — Public Fediverse posts

News Summary: Harlequin’s AI Microdrama Deal Sparks Backlash; Publishers Support Music Industry against Anthropic

The publishing industry has had a week of not seeming to be able to get its story straight on AI. I say story, but what I mean in the first instance is AI-generated animated microdramas. Video microdramas have been in the news several times of late. They are very much in demand with audiences and provide an opportunity for those writers who love producing serialized works with short episodes and cliffhangers aplenty.
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https://selfpublishingadvice.org/harlequins-ai-microdrama-deal/

#AImicrodramas #AIgeneratedcontent #Anthropiclawsuit #authorrights #ConcordMusic

News Summary: 10,000 Authors Publish Blank Book Protesting UK AI Copyright Legislation

Remember how I started the week by contrasting the Paris Book Festival, where threatened boycotts over AI flooding the market had forced Amazon to withdraw its sponsorship, with London Book Fair, hosted in the less radical home of the open letter?
The post News Summary: 10,000 Authors Publish Blank Book Protesting UK AI Copyright Legislation appeared first on The Self-Publishing Advice Center.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/authors-publish-blank-book/

#authorrights #copyright #DataMining #DontStealThisBook #LondonBookFair

News Summary: Authors Guild Pushes Back on Amazon’s ‘Ask This Book’ AI Feature

The news starts 2026 as it ended 2025, with Amazon's new Ask This Book feature for Kindle books. When I first reported on this, I had yet to see the response from authors. Thanks to a link in Jane Friedman's newsletter, I have now been able to read and digest a very robust…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/ask-this-book/

#AIfeatures #AmazonKindle #AskThisBook #authorrights #AuthorsGuild

"Die OA Revolution hat sich dem Thema angenommen..." Marc Lange stellt launig das Spannungsfeld #openaccess #vgwort #authorrights vor -- fühle mich mit Star Wars Referenzen gut abgeholt 🤓 Danke für den sehr unterhaltsamen *und* inhaltlich gehaltvollen Vortrag #oat25

Die Handreichung "Open Access und die VG Wort" gibt's bei @berlinup : https://www.berlin-universities-publishing.de/beratung/handreichungen/vg-wort/index.html

News Summary: Amazon Expands Kindle Colorsoft Line; WeTransfer Terms Raise AI Concerns

This time last year, Amazon launched the Kindle Colorsoft. It was the first sign in quite some time that the company hadn’t given up on specialist e-readers, and its success at the checkout was one of the more notable stories from last Prime Day.
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/kindle-colorsoft/

#AItrainingconcerns #Amazonereaders #authorrights #KindleColorsoft #SocietyofAuthors
@indieauthors

News Podcast: Meta Ruling Raises Fair Use Questions, Cloudflare Launches AI Licensing Tool, Author Claims Direct Control of Rights

On this episode of the Self-Publishing News Podcast, Dan Holloway explains how the Meta ruling favors tech companies but leaves the door open for future cases that could benefit authors. He also covers…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-meta-ruling/

#Podcast #AIcontentscraping #authorrights #Cloudflaretool #digitallicensing
@indieauthors

Podcast: What the First AI Copyright Ruling Means for Authors

ALLi Director Orna Ross unpacks the first court ruling on AI’s use of copyrighted books and why it matters to indie authors. She explains how the judge balanced “fair use” with pirate copying, then walks through ALLi’s Four Cs—consent, compensation, clarity, and…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/podcast-ai-copyright-ruling/

#Podcast #AIcopyrightruling #authorrights #contentscraping #creativepublishing
@indieauthors

TikTok’s 8th Note Press Faces Shutdown Amid Author Complaints: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

My previous story reported on the opening of a new romance-only bookstore (one hopes the wedding venue license will be coming soon for literary lovers’ very own HEA!). Needless to say, the owner of the store in question cited TikTok as one of the…
https://selfpublishingadvice.org/8th-note-press/

#8thNotePress #authorrights #BookTok #ByteDance #publishingdelays
@indieauthors