Pitch Perfect (S01E12)

New Bad Lit Friends has dropped!!!

It's all about pitch contests! The good, the bad, the mood boards.

Also: Book piracy. Is it bad? (uhhh...yeah, duh)

Wherever you get your podcasts...you know the drill!

#WritingCommunity #Podcasts #PitchContests #BookPiracy

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Anthropic Authors’ Rights Class Action – Author Contact Page – Lieff Cabraser

Author friends, register at this law firm if you think Anthropic trained their AI model on your copyrighted books, accessed illegally via pirate websites. Class action case info on the site. Sign up for notification here: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... #ai #bookpiracy #copyright

The fear of piracy and copyright theft is real. So, kudos to the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines (IPOPHL) for helping authors (veterans or indies) in protecting our rights. And for giving us space to sell books in your events!

#ipophl #copyright #bookpiracy

for any editors/proofreaders out there: beware of an ostensible $20 paperback of chicago 18. i bought one from thriftbooks & it proved to be pirated. no chicago formatting, no cip data, just 140 pp of cribbed text

(thriftbooks refunded me of course)

#BookPiracy #editing #BookSky

Are you an #author or #publisher concerned about #Meta using your #books to train #AI? You should read this article by #IBPA buff.ly/rBpeq2D #bookpiracy

Meta's Massive AI Training Book Heist: What Authors Need to Know  - 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 on...

Here's what you need to know if Zuckerberg and META pirated your books to train their AI.

#BookSky
#BookPiracy
#METATHEFT
#FUCKZUCKERBERG

authorsguild.org/news/meta-li...

Tell AI Companies They Do Not Have the Right to Use Your Work I just sent a letter telling AI companies they do not not have the right to use my work. Use the Authors Guild's letter template to send your own.

Authors, have you recently discovered your work was used without permission to train AI? This might not make a difference but has to be worth a try.
actionnetwork.org/letters/auth...
#authors #AI #bookpiracy #booksky #writers

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

4 of my 5 published books have been pirated and used to train Facebook's Meta AI.

The US Writer's Guild is investigating and there may be a Class Action Lawsuit.

#BookSky
#Authorsky
#BookPiracy
#Meta

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

There is no circumstance where a company should be allowed to make the intentional choice to download 1000s of pirated books to save time/money and then use them for whatever they want. The pirate site itself shouldn’t exist. #meta #bookpiracy

Screen shot of author search results in LibGen showing that my translations of Akram Aylisli's "Stone Dreams" and "Farewell, Aylis" appear in the database of works pirated by Meta to train Ai.

Incandescent with rage that Meta pirated the work of a writer suffering political repression, Azerbaijan's Akram Aylisli, as well as my poems and poetry collection, to train AI, from which Meta will presumably make billions. #bookpiracy @authorsguild.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Book-stealing to train your AI is still stealing! They used 30 of mine! #bookpiracy #theft #AI
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

16. Have an app steal Harrison’s Wedding and sell it as if it’s theirs.

#Romancebooks #rockstarromance #rockstarromancereads #spicybooks #sianceinwen #weddingtrope #booktokdrama #bookpiracy #piracy #weddingbooks #angstybooks #cryingbooks #fyp #booktok #bookstagram #booksky

#Bookpiracy IS NOT OK‼️ #Piracy IS NOT COOL‼️ Authors work so hard, making sacrifices to create these beautiful stories. STEALING from hardworking people is not ok. If you want free books GET A LIBRARY CARD‼️ #octaviagrant #booksky

3 Reasons Authors Shouldn't Worry About Piracy - Joanna Penn Guest blog by Joanna Penn: New authors worry about piracy, especially in this age of digital publishing and online marketing. Yes, piracy happens...

Interesting article about authors and piracy: https://buff.ly/2l8uZLl #writing #writingcommunity #writingtip #booksky #piracy #bookpiracy

I'm sick of pirate book sites.

A novel takes YEARS to write and edit. Surely you can spare a little to BUY it, or if not, USE A LIBRARY.

It's so damaging to authors and we won't be able to write more books if we don't get paid.

#WritingCommunity #bookpiracy #buybooks