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Copyright Just Shelley Technology Writing

Anthropic Author Class Action Settlement: How to do Everything Wrong

Third update (Sept 5): Victoria Strauss in her post, listed below, just named literary agencies attempting to grab some of the Anthropic settlement funds. Among the agencies: The Wylie Agency Malatesta Literary Agency L. Perkins Agency Global Lion Intellectual Property (formerly PMA Literary) Jeanne Fredericks Literary Agency Sanford J. Greenburger Dystel Goderich & Bourret Jean […]

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Government

Prediction: Trump forced out, Vance in after midterms

At the recent NATO Summit, Trump went all in on the crazy. He demanded Greenland, again. He chastised Spain. He called Iranians scum and said the cease fire was over. He promised to bomb every bridge and every water desalination plant in Iran—both of which are war crimes. And during an interview with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy, […]

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Government Legal, Laws, and Regs Savannah

Chatham County Commissioners, CAT, and Lessons in Semantics

“It sucks for you, but we’re not gonna pass a tax on your citizens without them deciding,” Kicklighter said. “If they let their citizens vote on it and their citizens approve it, it’ll be approved by this county commission.” The above is from a WTOC article that covered a Chatham County commission decision to deny […]

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Annotated Court Copyright Legal, Laws, and Regs

Anthropic Class Action lawsuit hearing – quick update

I’m writing a bigger piece on the Anthropic class action lawsuit, but I thought I’d do a quick update on the final settlement hearing yesterday. Well, that was interesting. The judge reminds me a bit of Mom, when you’re fibbing and she knows you’re fibbing and you know she knows you’re fibbing but she has […]

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Burningbird Just Shelley Writing

Hi, I’m Burningbird

Hi, I’m Burningbird. I love to write. I have a weblog.