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Anthropic Burped Again…
Letters Going Out To Authors… For each claim page (I filled out five different claims with over 7o titles total on the five claims), Anthropic is sending out proposed amounts for each book or story. Some letters are saying no dispute with the enclosed titles, others are disputed. For example, on a number of titles, some company I have never heard of is claiming they own 100% and all the authors should get nothing. Yeah, that’s a dispute. And good old Pocket Books is given rewards two and three times on some books, and then Simon and Schuster claims a share. Yeah, that’s a dispute. More than likely I will…
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Anthropic Burped…
There Is Movement… May Mean Nothing… Most of you know that Kris and I and WMG Publishing have a lot of tittles in the Anthropic settlement. And I do mean a lot. And the expectation of any kind of payment is pretty much on the bottom of any reality. But some folks who know a lot more than I do are saying that payments are in process and it could be as soon as September 17th. Yup, and pigs really can fly. But today, Kris and I both got emails from Anthropic on books that were opted out. Disney, in their not caring at all about creators, opted out all…
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Anthropic Settlement
Judge Ruled On Monday… This is what is called the Final Settlement. There is still a ways to go before checks start hitting the mails, but this is a huge step closer. For those of you who do not know what I am talking about, Anthropic must pay 1.5 Billion to authors who they stole work from to train their AI. It is not a bad settlement, especially for those of us who have been prolific and had copyrights registered. We shall see. Again, a ways before payments go out, but at least this is in the payments stage now. You can find press releases about it or go on…
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Anthropic Day…
Today I Set Aside to Submit Anthropic Claims… Unbelievably mind-numbing. I did one three-hour session to do the easy ones this afternoon. Then another two-hour session to finish those up and do some of the more difficult one. The three more hours tonight all difficult ones. I got 47 total titles submitted and I have a hunch I will find another 15 or 20 in this coming week to do one more submission before the deadline. Kris has in about 70 titles already claimed and I found another 15 for her tonight and she had a bunch she had already found. We should be north of 150 titles claimed. Better…
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An Anthropic Day…
Actually… Overwhelming and Fun I spent most of my business computer hours today looking through books I have published and seeing if they are on the Anthropic database of books included in the settlement. To be included, the copyright on the book had to be registered before a certain date and then the book had to have been found by Anthropic on a pirate site so they could take it and use it to train an AI. In other words, not only did they steal author’s work, but they stole them from a pirate site. Pure class act, along with all the other thieves who stole books and art and…