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Parallel to a Texas law aimed at bookstores, the French government seeks to limit sales of a YA novel, Manu Causse's Bien trop petit.

A controversial law banning books viewed as sexually explicit from public school libraries is being challenged in the conservative stronghold of Texas.

The lawsuit argues the law is unconstitutionally vague, a violation of free speech rights and an undue burden on booksellers. It seeks to block the law before it takes effect.

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.

AUSTIN — A coalition including Texas bookstores, national booksellers, authors and publishers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop a new law they say amounts to "state censorship."

AUSTIN — A coalition including Texas bookstores, national booksellers, authors and publishers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop a new law they say amounts to "state censorship."

AUSTIN — A coalition including Texas bookstores, national booksellers, authors and publishers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday to stop a new law they say amounts to "state censorship."

Writers and artists want compensation from AI firms that they claim have trained their models on copyrighted works. But their legal fights miss the bigger issues.

Authors and publishers are worried about the threat of AI – and they’re fighting back. But there are still important ways human authors can’t be replaced with machines.

Two Texas bookstores and three national bookseller associations file suit over House Bill 900, which requires private booksellers to rate books on appropriateness, and bans “sexually explicit” material from libraries.