20 h. ago 'I married author I met in my Scots bookshop and my daughter predicted it'

Sarah Frame married an author she met in her bookstore and her daughter predicted it before they met.

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37 h. ago Youth Demand protest: Activists block roads in central London as they threaten to ‘shut down’ city

Protesters blocked a number of key routes in London on Saturday

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39 h. ago Hundreds gather in central London for protest against Trump administration

Crowds gathered in Trafalgar Square on Saturday afternoon with banners which read ‘No to Maga hate’ and ‘Dump Trump’.

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47 h. ago Youth Demand protest LIVE: Activists threaten to ‘shut down London’ with park protest over Gaza and climate crisis

Protesters are gathering from 11am at Lincoln’s Inn Fields

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65 h. ago Ealing traffic wardens protest outside councillor surgeries as parking tickets rise

Civil enforcement officers, employed by Greener Ealing, began industrial action in 2024 over the council-controlled company’s alleged refusal to recognise their union, Unite

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65 h. ago US authors’ copyright lawsuits against OpenAI and Microsoft combined in New York with newspaper actions

California cases over AI trainers’ use of work by writers including Ta-Nehisi Coates and Michael Chabon transferred to consolidate with New York suits from John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen and moreTwelve US copyright cases against OpenAI and Microsoft have been consolidated in New York, despite most of the authors and news outlets suing the companies being opposed to centralisation.A transfer order made by the US judicial panel on multidistrict litigation on Thursday said that centralisation will “allow a single judge to coordinate discovery, streamline pretrial proceedings, and eliminate inconsistent rulings”. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Authors Hold London Protest Against Meta For 'Stealing' Work To Train AI

Authors Hold London Protest Against Meta For 'Stealing' Work To Train AI  Barron's

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3 d. ago Society of Authors to hold protest at Meta's London HQ after 'pirated books used to train AI'

Society of Authors to hold protest at Meta's London HQ after 'pirated books used to train AI'  The Bookseller

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3 d. ago ‘Meta has stolen books’: authors to protest in London against AI trained using ‘shadow library’

Writers will gather at the Facebook owner’s King’s Cross office in opposition to its use of the LibGen database to train its AI modelsAuthors and other publishing industry professionals will stage a demonstration outside Meta’s London office today in protest of the organisation’s use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence.Novelists Kate Mosse and Tracy Chevalier as well as poet and former Royal Society of Literature chair Daljit Nagra will be among those in attendance outside the company’s King’s Cross office. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago London protests LIVE: Youth Demand accuse Government of 'trying to shut us down' at pro

The ‘Shut It Down For Palestine’ rally has begun in Bloomsbury

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5 d. ago Meta AI apologises for 'harm' caused to author after 'stealing' his books in bizarre exchange

Bestselling author AJ West felt violated when he discovered his novels were among millions 'stolen' by tech giant Meta to train its AI system and was shocked when he got one from the system itself.

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5 d. ago Richard Osman fumes 'it's hard to know what to do’ as he suffers from 'illegal' issue

BBC's Pointless presenter and author Richard Osman has been left furious after discovering that his books have been "stolen"

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5 d. ago Who are Youth Demand? The protest group plotting to 'shut down' London

Who are Youth Demand? The protest group plotting to 'shut down' London  Yahoo News Canada

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6 d. ago Authors call for UK government to hold Meta accountable for copyright infringement

‘I am a crime writer, I understand theft,’ said Val McDermid – joining Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro and Kate Mosse in their appeal to Lisa Nandy to act on their behalfA group of prominent authors including Richard Osman, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Mosse and Val McDermid have signed an open letter calling on the UK government to hold Meta accountable over its use of copyrighted books to train artificial intelligence.The letter asked Lisa Nandy, the secretary of state for culture, media and sport, to summon Meta senior executives to parliament. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Who are Youth Demand? The protest group threatening to 'shut down' London for a month

Protest group Youth Demand has threatened to 'shut down' London with a month of co-ordinated action starting on Tuesday

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7 d. ago British authors respond to ‘infuriating’ allegations Meta used books to train AI models

British authors have responded to "upsetting" allegations that tech giant Meta used their books and others to train its AI models.

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7 d. ago Quakers condemn Met Police over ‘aggressive’ arrests at ‘shut down London’ protest meeting

More than 30 officers made the arrests at a welcome talk held in Westminster

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8 d. ago Tesla Takedown protests LIVE: Demonstrators rally outside London Tesla dealership in global anti

Events are taking place in cities including Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bristol, New York, San Francisco and Berlin

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8 d. ago The Five author Hallie Rubenhold: ‘I really hate true crime’

The award-winning writer turned the Jack the Ripper case on its head. Now she is giving Dr Crippen the same treatment – and questioning how we tell stories about murderous menIt was called “the crime of the century” and “the north London cellar murder”, and more than 100 years after it happened, the name of the murderer is still widely known. Dr Crippen has been the subject of multiple books, movies and TV shows and had a waxwork made of him at Madame Tussauds. But the story of his crimes, writes Hallie Rubenhold in Story of a Murder, remains one “predominantly about women but told almost exclusively by men”. As such, Crippen’s victim is long forgotten. Her name was Belle Elmore, and in Rubenhold’s book she is brought back to life.Rubenhold and I are in a cafe in Muswell Hill, north London, a 10 minute walk from where Elmore is buried, and where the 53-year-old author lives with her barrister husband, Frank. Writing Story of a Murder was nerve-racking, says Rubenhold, partly because...

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8 d. ago AD FEATURE: From a career in the military to writing intimate novels, discover the Welsh author behind 'intoxicating' Kitten on a String

Kitten on a String is the first book of 10 in what author P T Jay hails a 'tantalising' series

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