Sign the Petition Protect authors’ livelihoods from the unlicensed use of their work in AI training

Authors - sign and protect your work from the unlicensed use of AI training by Meta and other large (and mega rich) tech companies.
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Rhona Snelling on LinkedIn: #paythecreator #madebyhumans #humanintelligence #elt 🔶 CREATIVE RIGHTS - AI AND COPYRIGHT 🔶 This post is specifically about the use of copyrighted material by AI companies, and the lack of regulation and…

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Publishers Association urges copyright reform rather than 'US tech-led heist of UK copyrighted works' The Publishers Association’s chief executive Dan Conway has urged for copyright reform following the government’s newly published AI Opportunities Action Plan and warned against a “US tech-led heist o...

NY resolution suggestion for commercial tech companies and other 🏴‍☠️ - stop stealing. NY resolution for uk gov - stop being complicit in stealing and start protecting your creatives … and step up for Ukraine and Gaza whilst you’re at it.
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Hello C and A! 👋🏻

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

Checking it out now… thanks!

Fertigbuchkummer - the German word for that very specific sorrow felt when you finish reading a great book. I feel another pain-filled, grief-ridden word is needed for a trilogy though. 💔😭 What can I possibly read next? #wolfhall

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Thank you for the repost @joszoke.bsky.social!

Rhona Snelling on LinkedIn: Opportunities ... | 24 comments 🔶 OPPORTUNITIES – RESEARCH, WRITING, WEBINARS, ETC 🔶 Recently, there have been looooooooooads of posts about brilliant opportunities in our English Language… | 24 comments on LinkedIn

Loads of great #ELT opportunities on my LinkedIn page for #writing, #research, #presenting, #webinars etc. Full details in post. 👀

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The results from our AI survey are in! Thank you to all 13k writers who took the time to share their thoughts - we've learned that you want choice, recognition and transparency.

Get the full report at www.alcs.co.uk/ai/

Massive away win for the little fella.

Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 shortlists - The Society of Authors There are 41 shortlisted works across eight prizes

Announcing the Translation Prizes 2024 shortlists
41 shortlisted books, eight prizes, 12 languages - over £30,000 awarded.
See the full shortlists here: authr.uk/TP24
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At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.

The Francis Bacon exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery is a jaw dropping emotional workout. Wonderful. Lunch downstairs at Larry’s pretty damn good, too.

Beautiful! Huge congrats Rosanna!

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed.

(Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

Proud to publish this celebration of the year-on-year hard work the Society of Authors puts in for professional authors.

Huge thanks to editor @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social! 🙏🏻

It’s #workinpublishingweek! And here’s my article in ‘The Author’, the journal of the @societyofauthors.bsky.social
, celebrating 60 years of the Educational Writers Group of which I’m Chair. Fancy joining us? 😀

Trust no one! I’m reading The Mirror and The Light atm. Henry and Tom… 😱🪓

Huge congrats Sue!

Shout out to the fuller-figured felines! Meet Bella Bambina. Enjoying the winter ☀️ in the blue sky … on BlueSky! 😉

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*prompted (Yet I also feel 'promoted' isn't TOO incorrect.)