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SEND YOUR INFO: https://www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-author-contact/ Anthropic AI Class Action: Important Information for Authors Artificial Intelligence August 19, 2025 Earlier this summer, a federal court in California issued a major ruling in  Bartz v. Anthropic , one of the copyright class action lawsuits involving AI. The court held that a trial should occur over whether Anthropic’s downloading of millions of books from the pirate websites Library Genesis (“LibGen”) and Pirate Library Mirror (“PiLiMi”) infringed the rights of copyright holders. (It also held that Anthropic’s use of books to train AI was fair use, a holding with which the Authors Guild disagrees.) On July 17, the court certified a class comprised of legal and beneficial owners of the rights in copyright-registered books downloaded by Anthropic from these...

 Doubleday wins three-way auction for Eliana Ramage’s ‘expansive coming-of-age’ debut Apr 23, 2025 by Heloise Wood Eliana Ramage © Leah Margulies Doubleday has acquired To the Moon and Back , the debut novel by Eliana Ramage, in a three-way auction. Editorial director Bobby Mostyn-Owen acquired UK and Commonwealth rights, excluding Canada, from Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein following a three-way bidding war, on behalf of Meredith Kaffel Simonoff at The Gernert Company. Doubleday will publish in hardback in February 2026. Margo Shickmanter at Avid Reader Press will publish in the US this autumn, as will Simon & Schuster Canada. The synopsis reads: “Steph Harper is on the run. When she was six, her mother ran – with Steph and her younger sister in tow – from an abusive husband into the arms of a small Cherokee community, where she hoped they might finally belong. But Steph soon sets her sights as far away as she can get, vowing that she will let nothing interfer...

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  🎉Congratulations @morgan_j_talty ! Winner of the 🏆2022 New England Book Award for Fiction! @neibabooks #NEIBA #NEIBAAwards pic.twitter.com/J3ZTr0tLU2 — Tin House (@Tin_House) September 23, 2022   @Morgan_J_Talty  Writer / pαnawάhpskewi from the Penobscot Indian Nation / NIGHT OF THE LIVING REZ out now from @tin_house   reviews: While soaked in pain and broken promises, Night of The Living Rez delivers with a grace and dignity on par with the writings of Craig Lesley, Dawn Dumont, James Welch and Joseph Dandurand. Morgan Talty delivers on so many levels and proves that this is why Indigenous Literature continues to be its own unique and sacred blessing. I loved this book. Loved it. And I can't wait to see what Morgan Talty does next. I am a fan for life. Mahsi cho, Morgan!--Richard Van Camp, author of The Lesser Blessed   A collection of stories set in a Native community in Maine, Talty's book centers questions of what it means to be Penobscot t...

(2021) Race And Privilege In Rural Maine At Center Of Gregory Brown's Novel  New England Public Media | By Jill Kaufman ...

  Today, the National Book Foundation announced the finalists for the 2024 National Book Awards in all five categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, Translated Literature, and Young People’s Literature. The finalists were selected from a starting total of 1,917 books submitted by publishers this year: 473 in Fiction, 671 in Nonfiction, 299 in Poetry, 141 in Translated Literature, and 333 in Young People’s Literature. The winners in all categories will be revealed at the National Book Awards Ceremony on November 20, during which Barbara Kingsolver and W. Paul Coates will also be awarded lifetime achievement awards. Winners receive $10,000, a bronze medal, and a statue; Finalists receive $1,000 and a bronze medal. Winners and Finalists in the Translated Literature category will split the prize evenly between author and translator.     An Oprah Daily "Best New Book" and "Riveting Nonfiction and Memoir You Need to Read" * A New York Times ...

  PAULETTE IS A GENIUS - I MET HER IN CONNECTICUT   REPEAT SHOW.  Tiokasin speaks with Dr. Paulette Steeves (Cree-Métis). Paulette is an Indigenous archaeologist with a focus on the Pleistocene history of the Western Hemisphere.  In her research, Paulette argues that Indigenous peoples were present in the Western Hemisphere as early as 100,000 years ago, and possibly much earlier. She has created a database of hundreds of archaeology sites in both North and South America that date from 250,000 to 12,000 years before present, which challenges the Clovis First dogma of a post 12,000 year before present initial migrations to the Americas.  During her doctoral studies, she worked with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science to carry out studies in the Great Plains on mammoth sites which contained evidence of human technology on the mammoth bone, thus showing that humans were present in Nebraska over 18,000 years ago.  Paulette has taught Anthropolog...

THE LOST JOURNALS OF SACAJEWEA Open Audio Article Player June 05, 2024 LISTEN   “In my seventh winter, when my head only reached my Appe’s rib, a White Man came into camp. Bare trees scratched sky. Cold was endless. He moved through trees like strikes of sunlight. My Bia said he came with bad intentions, like a Water Baby’s cry.” Among the most memorialized women in American history, Sacajewea served as interpreter and guide for Lewis and Clark’s Corps of Discovery. In this visionary novel, acclaimed Indigenous author Debra Magpie Earling brings this mythologized figure vividly to life, casting ...

SciFri · Wilfred Buck Tells The Story Of Mista Muskwa   Star Knowledge Why do we accept as universal the teachings of constellations by their Greek names and stories? Indigenous peoples have their own stories and names for the star formations. These stories capture teachings about the land, medicines, animals and our relations. We don’t need to replace the Indigenous worldview. It’s just as valid. ...

  New poetry collection breaks free of limited Indigenous narratives At left the cover of the new book of poetry Teeth by Dallas Hunt (at right). Photo of Hunt by Conor McNally. Cover art by Michelle Sound and Dallas Hunt. By Odette Auger |  Windspeaker.com Dallas Hunt’s latest release is a book of poems exploring ideas of urban Indigeneity, decolonial theory and how First Nations find ways to create and continue to exist. Hunt, a member of Wapsewsipi (Swan River) First Nation, said his new collection Teeth sets out “to challenge the expectations and stereotypes placed on Indigenous writers.” Writing has always called to Hunt, he said, and he was encouraged by teachers and his family.  While his childhood had its tumultuous moments, his kôhkom (grandmother) and mom “really had a knack of finding a way when things were parti...