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AI: How to Help Students Avoid the New Plagiarism By Rickey Pittman

Published on May 5, 2025 Artificial Intelligence (AI), copyrights, legal, writing career advice

The creativity-destructive AI malady has not only affected students but many writers as well.

Have YOUR Books Been Used to Train AI? – by James M. Walsh, Esq.

Published on April 12, 2025 Artificial Intelligence (AI), copyrights, legal, social media

Internal communications obtained in discovery clearly indicated that Meta employees were acutely aware that harvesting data from LibGen to “educate” its generative AI software posed substantial legal risks…

EPISODE 3: The Collapse of NaNoWriMo: What Went Wrong?

Published on April 9, 2025 complaints, copyrights, legal, WritersWeekly Podcast

Angela and Brian explore NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), its history, mission, and the surprising recent announcement that the beloved nonprofit will be shutting down.

EPISODE 2: “In Just $299” – Publishing SCAMS You Need To Avoid!! Part 2

Published on April 2, 2025 author scams, complaints, Complaints about specific publishers, copyrights, legal, WritersWeekly Podcast, writing scams

Angela and Brian reveal how WritersWeekly fights global publishing scams and share practical steps to help you verify if a publishing company is legitimate or fraudulent.

EPISODE 1: “In Just $299” – Publishing SCAMS You Need To Avoid!! Part 1

Published on March 24, 2025 author scams, complaints, Complaints about specific publishers, copyrights, editing, ghostwriting, legal, WritersWeekly Podcast, writing scams

Angela and Brian expose the surge in global scams targeting writers—using slick websites, social media, and calls to sell bogus writing and book-to-movie services.

11 Ways to Know If a “Publisher” or Other Service Provider is an Overseas Scammer (You’ll probably only need to check #1 to prove it!) By Angela Hoy, Publisher

Published on March 23, 2025 author, author scams, complaints, Complaints about specific publishers, copyrights, legal, Trademarks, writing scams

We’ve found common traits that quickly show that a company is scamming authors.

Update on Our Foreign Publishing Scammers Exposé

Published on January 17, 2025 author scams, copyrights, legal, Print on demand, promotional pitfalls, self-publishing, Trademarks, writing scams

We’ve added dozens more companies to the post, with LOTS of details!

Another SERIOUS Reason NOT to Use Amazon KDP to Publish Your Book; and much more! – In The News – 12/06/2024

Published on December 6, 2024 Censorship, copyrights, Journalism, legal, Print on demand, self-publishing, traditional publishing

MORE: Librarians forced to deal with violence on the job; WARNING about Edioak and House of Pages; Massive layoffs at CNN; Books aren’t the only artistic things being forged!; Book Guard targets authors; HarperCollins is selling its authors’ manuscripts to an AI company; and Start-up Spines mocked for charging authors $5K for AI editing!!