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News Summary: ALLi to Host Webinar Helping Authors Understand the Anthropic AI Settlement

You will have heard a lot in this column and elsewhere about the Anthropic AI settlement. In my last report, I noted that there were still more than 200,000 titles eligible to be part of the class action whose authors had not yet come forward to join. Part of the judge’s concern in the case was that more authors be made aware of how to state an interest.
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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News | August 30, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

News Summary: Anthropic AI Lawsuit Moves Toward Settlement; Authors and Publishers Await Terms

The two stories in this round-up feature the Association of American Publishers. Nonetheless, both are relevant for indie authors, in the US certainly and quite possibly elsewhere. First up is possibly a major breakthrough in the Anthropic AI case. The headlines vary. At the time of writing, Publishing Perspectives is leading with “A Potential Settlement.” TechCrunch, meanwhile, has “Anthropic Settles…”
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Self-Publishing | With ALLi | News Analysis & Commentary | Proudly Sponsored By | Bookvault | Miblart | Dan Holloway | Sel…

News Podcast: Meta Ruling Raises Fair Use Questions, Cloudflare Launches AI Licensing Tool, Author Claims Direct Control of Rights

On this episode of the Self-Publishing News Podcast, Dan Holloway explains how the Meta ruling favors tech companies but leaves the door open for future cases that could benefit authors. He also covers Cloudflare’s new tool to let publishers charge AI firms for content scraping and reports on a bestselling author’s move to take control of her rights outside traditional publishing.
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Podcast: What the First AI Copyright Ruling Means for Authors

ALLi Director Orna Ross unpacks the first court ruling on AI’s use of copyrighted books and why it matters to indie authors. She explains how the judge balanced “fair use” with pirate copying, then walks through ALLi’s Four Cs—consent, compensation, clarity, and curiosity—to show authors where the real battles lie. Along the way, Ross offers clear steps for safeguarding your work, engaging readers, and keeping your creativity alive while tech giants and courts hammer out the details.
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Alliance Of Independent Authors | Self-Publishing News June 26, 2025 | With Dan Holloway

TikTok’s 8th Note Press Faces Shutdown Amid Author Complaints: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

My previous story reported on the opening of a new romance-only bookstore (one hopes the wedding venue license will be coming soon for literary lovers’ very own HEA!). Needless to say, the owner of the store in question cited TikTok as one of the driving factors in the decision to open the store. This is a theme. The resurgence of bookstores and the influence of BookTok go hand in hand.
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Pirated Books

Meta Faces Backlash Over AI Training with Pirated Books; Unbound Shuts Down: Self-Publishing with ALLi Featuring Dan Holloway

On this episode of the Self-Publishing with ALLi podcast, Dan Holloway reports on growing outrage after authors discovered their titles among pirated books used to train Meta’s AI model. A searchable LibGen database, highlighted by The Atlantic, has sparked widespread concern over copyright violations. Dan also covers the collapse of Unbound, a crowdfunding-based publisher, and what it means for indie authors.
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Bookwire Offers New Tools to Help Authors Control How AI Uses Their Work: Self-Publishing News with Dan Holloway

How do you stop companies from using your book or other writing to train their large language models? The answer, as I have been reporting a few times, is to apply code or metadata to your files that tells the scraping algorithms to go elsewhere. The latest distributor to allow such metadata to be attached is Bookwire, which has partnered with Liccium to offer the service. Liccium has done a lot of work with the technical and regulatory infrastructure of the literary world to provide an effective and enforceable service.
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