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April 5, 2025

Meta Accused of Using Authors’ Work Without Permission: The AI Copyright Battle

A growing number of British authors are speaking out against Meta, the tech giant behind…

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February 9, 2025

George Orwell commemorated with new coin

George Orwell – author of many titles including Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four – has…

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February 4, 2025

Terry Pratchett Estate issues statement regarding the future of Good Omens

Amid allegations of sexual assault against author Neil Gaiman, many projects linked to him have…

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May 14, 2024

Canadian Writer Alice Munro, dies at 92

“The Master of the short story”, Canadian writer Alice Munro has died at the age…

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May 1, 2024

Paul Auster, author of the New York Trilogy, dies aged 77

Paul Auster, the author best known for the critically acclaimed New York Trilogy has died,…

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December 7, 2023

Birmingham Poet, Benjamin Zephaniah dies, aged 65

The Bard of Birmingham, described as a “titan of British literature” Benjamin Zephaniah has tragically…

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September 22, 2023

Top Authors Join Legal Battle Against OpenAI for Mass Copyright Infringement

Seventeen writers in The Authors Guild have clubbed together to sue Chat GPT’s parent company,…

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July 12, 2023

Milan Kundera, author of the Unbearable Lightness of Being, dies in Paris

News has reached us today that author Milan Kundera, one of the most influential European…

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June 13, 2023

Literary Icon, Cormac McCarthy has died

Cormac McCarthy, known for bestselling novels such as No Country for Old Men, and The…

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May 21, 2023

The Literary World Mourns Martin Amis

On 19th May 2023, the literary world was shaken to its core as the death…

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