MORE: Gov. Abbott signs new law about ‘s*xually explicit’ school books; Bookforum is back in business; More copyright claims against AI; Student who reported rape can be sued for defamation; and FTC sues Amazon for ‘tricking and trapping’ people in Prime subscriptions
MORE: Indigo founder and half of board members step down; Amazon fined $30M for recording children in their own homes, and keeping those recordings for commercial purposes; The Writer’s Guild of America has a rapid response unit!; Meta/Facebook threatens to remove news content from its CA social media sites; OPEC shutting out some journalists; Husband and wife forgers fooled the art market and made millions; Publishers group apologizes for school textbook criticizing Christian missionaries in Ghana; Homes of reporter, her parents, and her editor attacked after sexual misconduct article published; Supreme Court sides with Jack Daniel’s in poop-themed dog toy trademark fight; and Biden names coordinator to work on book bans.
MORE: PETA uses AI to rewrite the Bible; Filmmakers worried about AI taking their jobs, too; Ohio State University adopts free speech policy; Tattooist loses libel suit against blogger; Newspaper got duped by AI; Twitter sued after employee in the Middle East turned in critics of Saudi rulers; AI companies are violating copyrights en masse; Forbes will soon be owned by foreigners; Prince Harry’s ghostwriter speaks out; and Court rules Facebook, Twitter, and Google not liable for terrorists using their platforms.
MORE: Publisher of Britney Spears’ pauses process after potential legal issues; New York Post banned from White House event; China arrests man who faked train crash story; Author (and mother) who penned book for children experiencing grief charged with murdering her husband; French reporter killed in Ukraine; Reporter pleads guilty after prank call; Musician pays random to keep hacker from pre-releasing his new music; Blogger commits suicide; and Atlanta agrees to pay photojournalist $105K for wrongful arrest during George Floyd protests
MORE: Manga freelancers want more $$; LA Times denies submitting questions to White House ahead of press conference…and it’s pretty obvious they’re lying; Ed Sheeran not liable in copyright infringement case; Colleges are pushing back against woke culture; AI will negatively affect music as well;
The Bible is still the best selling book of all time!; and Google’s “Godfather of AI” quits and issues warning.
MORE: Reporter leaves recorder in meeting, hears city employees talking about having him killed; Mother and son pen positive book for children; Did you know it’s illegal to protest outside libraries in Canada?; Artist rejects photo prize because his image was AI generated; BuzzFeed News is out of business; and Singer leaves country music industry to serve God.
MORE: Amazon-owned online bookstore shuts down and we’re GLAD! (We’ll tell you why next week.); Shouldn’t Gavin Newsom have better things to do?; Reddit continues to ban copyright infringers; Fox News sued for libel; Television writers might go on strike; American journalist jailed in Russia forbidden to share accusations against him; and Satire site Babylon Bee sues CA Attorney General for censorship.
MORE: Teacher fired after asking students to write their own obituaries; New York public library offers paid internships to black applicants only; SF blames at-home workers for its financial woes downtown; Australian mayor will file defamation lawsuit against AI company; Author James Patterson accuses some media outlets of not reporting on his new book; Posthumous book editing can be considered censorship; and Publishers accused ad-tech firms of intellectual property infringement.
MORE: “Disinformation is simply a dog whistle for “censorship”; R.L. Stine says he did NOT give his publisher permission to re-edit his books; More adult books being found in children’s school libraries; CBS News contributor and author accused of plagiarism in new book; More colleges are banning ChatGPT; and Lawmakers furious when journalists refuse to give up their sources.
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