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Oklahoma City -- A broad coalition of groups that support freedom of speech and the press has sent a letter of thanks to Governor Kevin Stitt for his veto of

Five things to know about the Supreme Court's new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith.

New technologies using generative artificial intelligence — or AI — are shaking up many industries, including publishing and art. Authors and artists are questioning whether it’s a tool or cheating — and whether AI will eliminate their work.Phoenix artist and teacher’s takeMixed media artist Marissa Vidrio draws inspiration from familiar places, like her garden.“I love desert

The Guild says it met with the agencys leadership on May 18 and was assured of transition plans to support a number of authors who were recently dropped by the agency following the departure of agent Jordan Hamessley.

Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority Executive Director Greg Veliz addressed the Monroe County Commission on Wednesday, May 17, about a series of water line main breaks and the FKAA’s efforts replacing

Publishing firms strive to make money and expand their financial position in order to draw and keep investors.

We are extremely concerned by reports that #NewLeaf Literary agency dropped one of its agents authors by email over the weekend. https://t.co/WptLNZgCrn The Authors Guild (@AuthorsGuild) May 15, 2023 New Leaf agency is the agency representing Holly Black, Veronica Roth, Libba Bray…

Generative AI tools create art, music, code and other new content by learning from others’ work. Open AI used three hundred billion words, or five hundred seventy gigabytes, to build...

Over the past few decades, we’ve seen the rise of civil lawsuits that are meant to harass and silence defendants, rather than resolve legitimate disputes. These lawsuits have become known as Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation, or SLAPPs. Some states’ legislatures, including California...

Microsoft GitHub released CoPilot last year, a tool for generating code and auto-completion, that's been trained on vast amount of open source code, notably all open source code hosted on GitHub itself. This sparked a number of discussions and law suits surrounding the tool. There are many concerns ranging from the training of the model,…