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No, AI-generated work is not copyrightable (This week in books)

March 17, 2023 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! GPT-4 has arrived, leading to all sort of breathless headlines like this one from The Atlantic: ChatGPT Changed Everything. Now Its Follow-Up Is Here. Uhhhh… what exactly has it changed apart from prompting tech types and their financial enablers to lose their collective minds? Longtime readers know I am far from a […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Amy Weiss-Meyer, Austin Kleon, ChatGPT, Copyright, Jennifer Jackson, Kimon de Greef, Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dahl controversy is capitalism not wokeism (This week in books)

March 10, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! Lots of links saved up since the last edition of This Week in Books, so let’s get to it. A controversy erupted over the last few weeks involving Puffin and the Roald Dahl Story Company creating new editions of Dahl’s children’s novels with updates to some of Dahl’s language with an aim […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Charles Dickens, ChatGPT, HarperCollins, Ian Fleming, Jesse Armstrong, Lincoln Michel, Matthew Walther, Monica Hesse, Prince, Roald Dahl, Writer Beware

AI gets weird (This week in books)

February 17, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 1 Comment

This week! Books! The blog will go dark for the next few weeks as I take a planned breather (some might refer to this as a vacation). I’m planning to be back in March. Also: My editing slots are booking up extremely quickly this year, so please continue to reach out to me to get […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Artificial Intelligence, ChatGPT, Chuck Wendig, Corina Knoll, Emily Leibert, Jevon Philips, Kate McKean, Kevin Roose, LeVar Burton, Lincoln Michel, Nikki High

Deal struck to end HarperCollins strike (This week in books)

February 10, 2023 by Nathan Bransford Leave a Comment

This week! Books! HarperCollins and the HarperCollins Union have reached a tentative agreement to end its three month long strike, which is reported to include an increase in minimum salary and a one-time bonus for striking workers. HarperCollins also reported disappointing earnings, down 52% in the last quarter. Major outlets: “Barnes & Noble is back, […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: Barnes & Noble, David Remnick, HarperCollins, James Daunt, Kate King, Laura Warrell, Michael Hiltzik, Mike Shatzkin, Ron Charles, Salman Rushdie

Social media is a dumpster fire (This week in books)

February 3, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 2 Comments

This week! Books! You know it, I know it. Social media just isn’t what it used to be. Approximately 15 years into the social media era, and 8 years after GameGate marked the beginning of the end, we’re at a messy nadir, where the giants (Facebook/Instagram, Twitter, Snap) are earnestly committing suicide, the insurgent (TikTok) […]

Filed Under: This Week in Books Tagged With: ALA Awards, Censorship, Donald Maass, Florida, Hunter Patterson, Judith Viorst, Lincoln Michel, Madelin McIntosh, Martin Riker, Patrick Sauer, Penguin Random House, Peter C. Baker, S.E. Hinton, Social Media, Sophie Vershbow, Writing and Sports

Another mass shooting and another and another (This week in books)

January 27, 2023 by Nathan Bransford 7 Comments

I’m not quite ready to return to full blogging in the wake of the recent mass shooting in California (calling it that doesn’t even narrow it down), which hit very close to home literally and figuratively. I and my loved ones are okay, but I’m going through that heavy time where I’m feeling a lot […]

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