Authors Sue NVIDIA for Training AI on Pirated Books
Starting last year, various rightsholders have filed lawsuits against companies that develop AI models. The list of complainants includes record labels, book authors, visual artists, even...
Book Riot’s Deals of the Day for March 11, 2024
Today’s Featured Book Deal $1.99 The Bride Test by Helen Hoang Get This Deal $2.99 Whisper Down the Lane by Clay McLeod Chapman Get This Deal...
My Worst Experiences Haunt Me From the Memory Cloud
Presence by Gina Chung After Leo left, I had trouble keeping track of myself. I had just moved into a new apartment, and I felt like...
7 Books About Characters With Psychic Abilities
The process of writing, when it’s going well, feels like psychic channeling. You start typing and who knows what’s going to pour out or where it’s...
It’s Best If You Don’t Know Too Much About this Horror Manga
Novels are my first love, but I’ve been making room in my heart for more graphic novels lately. And so I thought it would be fun...
Movie & TV Giants Say French Pirate Site Audiences Are Continuously Shrinking
ALPA, the Association Against Audiovisual Piracy (Association de Lutte contre la Piraterie Audiovisuelle) has been active in France since the mid-eighties. With heavyweight backing from the...
DMCA Notices Took Down 20,517 GitHub Projects Last Year
With over 420 million code repositories, GitHub takes pride in being the largest and most advanced development platform in the world. As with other platforms that...
DSA: Google Reports Billions of Deletions on Google Play & Shopping
Late last month we reported on the latest copyright claim data made available by YouTube. In the first half of 2023, YouTube said it processed 980...
Reddit Objects to Filmmakers’ Renewed Attempt to Obtain User IP Addresses
Early last year, a group of filmmakers obtained a subpoena that required Reddit to reveal the identities of users who commented on piracy-related topics. The movie...
BuffStreams OK’d For Blocking in Germany But Unlikely to Lose Any Sleep
How can we be sure that site-blocking really works? Because if it didn’t work, I was informed recently, rightsholders wouldn’t keep filing new site-blocking requests at...
