Pluralistic: Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights (18 Nov 2024)

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Harpercollins wants authors to sign away AI training rights: Rights come from power.
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Pluralistic: Penguin Random House, AI, and writers' rights (19 Oct 2024)

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Penguin Random House, AI, and writers' rights: "You can't train an AI with our books" isn't the same thing as "We won't train an AI with YOUR book."
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Pluralistic: Doublethink sump linkdump (05 Oct 2024)

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Doublethink sump linkdump: Some short hits for an all-too-short weekend.
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Pluralistic: MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier (16 Aug 2024)

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MIT libraries are thriving without Elsevier: $2 million here, $2 million there, pretty soon you're talking real money.
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Pluralistic: An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more (30 Jul 2024)

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An open copyright casebook, featuring AI, Warhol and more: Up-to-date, erudite, and free!
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Pluralistic: Bullies want you to think they're on your side (13 Mar 2024)

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Bullies want you to think they're on your side: Bosses (not migrants) take workers' wages, and corporations (not readers) want writers' money.
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Pluralistic: The Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle (03 Mar 2024)

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The Cory Doctorow Humble Bundle: Name your price, get ebooks, back EFF!
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Pluralistic: The majority of censorship is self-censorship; The Bezzle excerpt (Part V) (22 Feb 2024)

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The majority of censorship is self-censorship: …But the majority of self-censorship is intentionally cultivated by an outside power.
The Bezzle excerpt (Part V): Keep your hands at 10 and 2.
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Pluralistic: Middlemen without enshittification; The Bezzle excerpt (Part II) (19 Feb 2024)

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Middlemen without enshittification: Not every author can be a DIY author.
The Bezzle excerpt (Part II): Let's learn about copyright termination!
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Pluralistic: How a billionaire's mediocre pump-and-dump "book" became a "bestseller" (15 Feb 2024)

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How a billionaire's mediocre pump-and-dump "book" became a "bestseller": A convincer to prolong the bezzle.
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