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Anthropic Settlement: what’s happening

Frustrated by the lack of any useful information from the Anthropic settlement administrator, I sent the following email on October 9: I am a class member in Bartz v. Anthropic PBC (claim #). You show the following two works as works without any disagreement, which I agree with:  Copyright ID title of work I am […]

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Copyright Just Shelley Technology Writing

Anthropic Author Class Action Settlement: How to do Everything Wrong

Eleventh (hour) Update (Sept 30): I had really hoped to no longer be needing to make updates, but the Anthropic Settlement folks just keep mucking things up. I received an email that said: We made updates that may affect your claim.   What Changed?   Based on feedback from claimants, we updated how certain works […]

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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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Copyright Writing

My DRM-free self

O’Reilly now has DRM free versions of some of its book available for the Kindle. Among the books are my own Painting the Web, Learning JavaScript, second edition, Practical RDF, and Adding Ajax. O’Reilly has been offering DRM free versions of the books at the O’Reilly site, but it’s only been lately that authors have been able to provide DRM […]

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Kindlegate

Being a Kindle owner, I’ve been following, and involved in, many discussions related to the recent DMCA take down notice that Amazon served on the eBook friendly site MobileRead. I’m too tuckered from arguing in other forums to say much now. At this time, all I’m going to do is list out pertinent articles and […]