Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Today is launch day for #SootAndBoots our collection of short festive fiction! Get your copy in hardback or paperback. amzn.eu/d/fotY3hp

It ys onlye Gen AI if it ys from the Gen AI regioun of Fraunce, otherwyse it ys just sparklinge plagiarism.

The publishing veteran, who has held senior executive roles at Macmillan, Bloomsbury, and Oxford University Press, has been named chair of the board of the London-based art book publisher, effective January 1.

This sounds great!

Extraordinary news — @katiejenkinspoet.bsky.social #Trilogy #WifeWidowWitch is sitting at #1 in British Poetry on Amazon. A haunting, lyrical exploration of womanhood, silence, & power — it’s a book that truly earns its place. shorturl.at/IbEp2

Lads, did you know that if you live in the UK you can JUST JOIN THE NATIONAL POETRY LIBRARY & send them proof of your address and then you can borrow all their e-books and audiobooks & poetry publications and shit? Because I did not know!!!! Thank you @ruthh.bsky.social for telling me they exist!

Today’s the day! Over 5 years in the making - I’ve left it all on the page. I’d love to share it with you. 👰‍♀️🖤🧙‍♀️

Sorry to miss this, sounds fascinating. But a clash with Frankfurt Book Fair!

Thank you #LauraGrevel for this revealing review of #BeautifulLittleFools #GreatGatsby#FScottFitzgerald #Decadence #Deceit #Poetry @thebrokenspine.co.uk #PoetsOfBlueSky #PoetryCommunity #https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/237581519-beautiful-little-fools

Major changes to EU travel rules next week - everything you need to know news.sky.com/story/money-...

Goodness me, the level of misinformation about the Bartz settlement is off the scale. Please take advice only from reputable sources and not randos on social media. Good explanation here from @copyrightlately.bsky.social. copyrightlately.com/anthropic-se...

🤖📰 Effective YESTERDAY: China has mandated a digital watermark for all AI-generated content. www.cac.gov.cn/2025-03/14/c... Translating in 🧵.

Always check your sources! #copyright

The Copyright Agency of Australia is fighting hard against the Australian Productivity Commission's ludicrous proposal for a text and data mining exemption to current copyright legislation. Here's their latest Q&A which shows just how damaging the proposal is. www.copyright.com.au/membership/a...

*THE OPEN ACCESS COMPANION TO THE CANTERBURY TALES*, a free, scholer-produced onlyne resource for teachinge and learninge *The Canterbury Tales* at the universitye level: opencanterburytales.lsusites.org

This week's prompt took me in a bit of a different direction #PoemsAbout #Ceasefire @thebrokenspine.co.uk @alanparrywriter.co.uk

Really interesting article. The mental load of running a life with someone else (whether there are children or not) is often overlooked and misunderstood - and usually carried by women 🏋️‍♂️

There are lots of copyright & AI cases ongoing but this one could potentially be very big - IF it goes ahead as a class action arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

A work in progress for this week's #PoemsAbout #BlackSky @alanparrywriter.co.uk @thebrokenspine.co.uk

I'm assuming that the "huge rabbit" spotted in the Cotswolds was actually a hare. #wato Educate, inform, entertain 🤷

It's crucial to read your publishing contract all the way through & understand the intent behind it. A fascinating blog here shows why that matters

Completely agree. Thank you @alanparrywriter.co.uk @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social and @thebrokenspine.co.uk !

Tomorrow night it all kicks off. Beautiful Little Fools takes the stage. #PoemsAbout takes the mic. You don’t want to hear about it secondhand. #BeautifulLittleFools #PoemsAbout #OpenMic #BookLaunch 🎟️ shorturl.at/DeXSq

Great to host a webinar this morning with our friends at PLS and CLA about proposals for new AI-related collective licensing. Have your say via this consultation survey (you’ll need to be logged into your PLS account) or by contacting the PLS team www.pls.org.uk/publisher-ar...

I'm thrilled to have a poem included in this beautiful hardback collection. Thank you brokenspinearts.bsky.social #BeautifulLittleFools

You want glamour? Here: Satin and cocaine at 4am. Champagne breath and blood in the pool. Pearl buttons torn from sweatshop seams. #BeautifulLittleFools doesn’t flinch. 50+ poets rewriting the American dream—one line at a time. Out July 7.

I'm beyond delighted that my poem 'Tom's Girl' has been selected by @brokenspinearts.bsky.social for 'Beautiful Little Fools', an anthology marking 100 years of The Great Gatsby. Thank you so much to editors @alanparry83.bsky.social and @karenpgonzalez.bsky.social ! #BeautifulLittleFools #Gatsby100

Intriguing, depressing, infuriating. And yet another reason why the rights holder 'opt out' proposed by the UK government won't work. It's impossible to opt out where your work has already been pirated. #copyright

Meta considered licensing books to train AI—but opted instead to pirate LibGen, a database that currently contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner writes.

Hey @waterstonesoxf.bsky.social Queen Street?

Last chance today to have your say in the UK govt consultation on copyright & AI

Five days left to have your say on AI & Copyright on the UK. And you don't need to answer all the questions. Link below 👇©️

There's still time to make a change 🗣️ Add your name to this author-organised letter and encourage the government to change its course on copyright exemption for generative AI use of creatives works docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #CreativeRights #ArtificalIntelligence #PayTheCreator

It's such a noisy time in the rights & licensing world so I've decided to relaunch my regular email newsletter. I'll look at AI & Copyright, changes to author guidelines, licensing trends & tips for rights research. First issue will be out soon so sign up at my website (in comments). See you there!

In case you're pondering how to respond to UK govt on AI & #Copyright: - Do I agree it's OK to allow text & data mining for all purposes without rights holder permissions? No. - Do I think creators can effectively reserve rights using a (yet to exist) opt-out system? No. I have a lot more words...

I know it's off-putting that the UK govt's favoured proposal on AI & #copyright would do huge damage to our wonderful - & economically important - creative industries. But it matters all the more that as many of us as possible have our say. There's still time. - Closes 25 Feb.

This is bizarre, I can't think why the UK wouldn't sign up to it. Or rather, I can't think of -good- reasons the UK wouldn't sign up. In the Wild West of AI, sustainability & safety matter! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The government’s consultation on AI is economically and strategically disastrous, and we must fight back, says Baroness Beban Kidron 👇#BookSky

Powerful message from Sir Paul McCartney to the UK government on their plans to upend copyright law to benefit AI companies: “You’re supposed to protect us. … Make sure you protect the creative thinkers, the creative artists, or you’re not going to have them.” www.bbc.com/news/article...

For #publishers, the Inclusive Access licensing model staying as opt-out (not opt-in) is likely to keep sales quite high but at the cost of low prices.

Well yes we do need the right balance between AI & copyright & I'm glad we can all respond to the govt consultation. But we need to enforce existing law, not set up opt outs that *reduce* the rights that creators already hold 👀🙏

Here we go. A govt consultation on AI & copyright with deadline in Feb. If you're involved - as author/creator, publisher etc etc pls consider contributing your views www.gov.uk/government/c...

The Intellectual Property Office (in the UK) is warning against scam invoices that claim to have come from them www.gov.uk/guidance/avo...

We really don't need a new #copyright exception for the benefit of training AI LLMs. #Licensing is happening, it's not a broken market. Opt outs are unwieldy & unreliable. Please no! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hello @carrfee99.bsky.social . Lovely to see you here, I hope all's well with you

Just published a post on @copyrightliteracy.bsky.social blog which is a reflection on @culturedoug.bsky.social's post on Anarchy in the UK and the situation regarding public domain images digitised by cultural heritage organisations: copyrightliteracy.org/2024/12/05/r...

Does anyone on BlueSky work for Lego? I have one distressed boy who is about to do his first school exams. The only thing that's calming him is the idea he needs to do exams to be able to get a job at Lego when he's older. I think it would help if someone who works for Lego could reassure him.

Sounds like a bad idea! Vanity publishing speeded up with AI. Potential question marks over copyright (AI can compromise originality) & quality (lots of speed = few human checks)🤷 www.theguardian.com/books/2024/n...