Last Saturday, the White House abruptly fired Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter, a renowned expert with deep knowledge of the importance of copyright to authors. In her place, the White House is attempting to install an administration official with no apparent […]| The Authors Guild
The Authors Guild recommends the following best practices for authors using artificial intelligence in the writing and publishing process. Topics include using AI tools to assist writing, disclosing if AI is used to publishers and readers, and more. To learn […]| The Authors Guild
The Authors Guild has drafted a new model clause to prohibit the use of an author’s work for training artificial intelligence technologies without the author’s express permission. Authors and agents can request this clause be added to their contracts. Authors […]| The Authors Guild
This post was originally published on September 8, 2023, and updated on August 13, 2024. Text-based generative AI technologies require the ingestion of vast amounts of data, including tens or hundreds of thousands of books. AI companies, so far, have […]| The Authors Guild
New York (November 16, 2022): The Authors Guild, the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit advocacy group for published authors and journalists, welcomed news of the arrest and indictment of Russian nationals Anton Napolsky and Valeriia Ermakova for their role in […]| The Authors Guild
Science publishing giant Elsevier has won a major copyright suit against pirate sites that have been offering free downloads of millions of research papers.| The Authors Guild
Human Authored is a project of the Authors Guild that allows an author to certify that their book is created by a human. “Human Authored” means that the text of the book was written by a human and not generated […]| The Authors Guild
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HarperCollins has sent out requests to thousands of authors for the inclusion of their nonfiction books in an AI license to an unknown AI company. There is some confusion about the offer in the press and on social media. As […]| The Authors Guild
Today, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works are in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the one that journalist Alex […]| The Authors Guild
We applaud Paul Tremblay, Mona Awad, Sarah Silverman, Christopher Golden, and Richard Kadrey for asserting their rights in the lawsuits against OpenAI, and we are standing by to provide support if requested. Using books and other copyrighted works to build […]| The Authors Guild
Update, December 5, 2023: On December 4, the Authors Guild filed an amended complaint naming Microsoft as a defendant. Click here to read the amended complaint (PDF). New York, N.Y., September 20, 2023—The Authors Guild and 17 authors filed a […]| The Authors Guild