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‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

Apr 03 2025: Authors and other publishing industry professionals will stage a demonstration outside Meta’s London office today in protest of the organisation’s use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence.

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Rightwing groups across US push new bans to limit ‘obscene’ books in libraries

Apr 01 2025: Rightwing groups around the US are pushing legislation that would place new limits on what books are allowed in school libraries in a move that critics decry as censorship often focused on LGBTQ+ issues or race or imposing conservative social values.

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Once again, federal judge blocks a book banning law in Iowa

Mar 27 2025: On March 25, U.S. District Court judge Stephen Locher of the Southern District of Iowa reinstated an injunction against book restrictions in Iowa Senate File 496, a 2023 state law that has resulted in the removal of hundreds of books from Iowa public school libraries. ...

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Iowa law banning books including 1984 and Ulysses blocked by US federal judge

Mar 26 2025: A lawsuit brought by publishers and authors including John Green and Jodi Picoult has led to a portion of a law banning Iowa school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts being halted.

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‘No consent’: Australian authors ‘livid’ that Meta may have used their books to train AI

Mar 25 2025: Australian authors say they are “livid” and feel violated that their work was included in an allegedly pirated dataset of books Meta used to train its AI.

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram is being sued by authors in the United States, including Ta-Nehisi ...

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U.S. to shut Canadian entrance to beloved Vermont-Quebec border library

Mar 21 2025: For 120 years, the Haskell Free Library & Opera House has straddled the Quebec-Vermont border, offering equal access to Canadians and Americans alike, passport-free. That was the vision of its founder, the philanthropist and dual-citizen Martha Haskell, who believed in ...

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The unbelievable scale of AI’s pirated-books problem

Mar 20 2025: When employees at Meta started developing their flagship AI model, Llama 3, they faced a simple ethical question. The program would need to be trained on a huge amount of high-quality writing to be competitive with products such as ChatGPT, and acquiring all of that ...

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AAP urges White House to prioritize copyright in AI action plan

Mar 17 2025: On Saturday, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) issued a response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's request for public comment regarding the development of the Administration's Artificial Intelligence Action Plan. In their submission...

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