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The Authors Guild is also suing OpenAI and Microsoft, saying they should license book content and pay authors for their original intellectual property. NBC News reached out to both companies for ...
Hybrid publishing is the source of debate in the publishing industry, with some viewing hybrid publishers as vanity presses in disguise. [7] However, a true hybrid publisher is selective in what they publish and will share the costs (and therefore the risks) with the author, whereas with a vanity press, the author pays the full cost of production and therefore carries all the risk.
A man has been arrested in connection to a phishing scam that stole and attempted to steal hundreds of unpublished book manuscripts from authors such as Margaret Atwood and Ethan Hawke. As ...
Past council presidents of the Authors Guild have included the novelists Pearl S. Buck, [6] Rex Stout, [7] Scott Turow, [8] Douglas Preston [9] and Madeleine L'Engle, [10] the biographers Anne Edwards [11] and Robert Caro, [12] the journalists Herbert Mitgang [13] and J. Anthony Lukas, [14] the children's book author Mary Pope Osborne, [15] and ...
A total of US$125 million payment from Google to the affected companies and authors: US$45 million to the rightsholders whose copyrights had allegedly been infringed; US$15.5 million for the publishers' legal fees; US$30 million to the authors' lawyers; and US$34.5 million to create a Book Rights Registry, a form of copyright collective that ...
The Broome County District Attorney's Office is issuing an alert to residents, especially seniors, to be aware of a telephone scam targeting people in the Binghamton area.
Publishers' Licensing Services (PLS), formerly The Publishers Licensing Society, is a not-for-profit organisation that represents many book, magazine and journal publishers based in the United Kingdom. PLS works to ensure that publishers are fairly compensated for any copying of their works through the collective licensing scheme, among other ...
The Literary Guild of America is a mail order book club selling low-cost editions of selected current books to its members. Established in 1927 to compete with the Book of the Month Club, it is currently owned by Bookspan. It was a way to encourage reading among the American public through curated and affordable selections.