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Authors Guild USA Submits Guidance for National AI Action Plan to Protect Writers’ Rights
Artificial Intelligence March 19, 2025 In developing a national Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan—a comprehensive strategy to guide AI innovation and regulation in the United States—the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program requested comments from interested parties on a broad swath of issues […]
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WeCreate Creative Export Explainer
March 27 2025 | News WeCreate have launched a Creative Export Explainer report that sets out how the creative industries sell to the world, where barriers to creative trade exist, and how the government might help the sector to derive greater value from exporting. Click here to read the report
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Dear Brooke van Velden, please pick up
Printed in Newsroom March 26, 2025 Riley Chance claims in his angry story in ReadingRoom about the failures of the Public Lending Right (PLR) that the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) and its members are happy with and doing nicely from the current PLR system. Au contraire. The lack of any progress to […]
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Books scraped in the LibGEN dataset by Meta?
Illegal Intellectual Property Use is Theft March 24, 2025 Over the weekend, The Atlantic published a search tool that allows authors to check if their works have been used in LibGen, an illegal pirate site AI companies copied for their AI systems. This is a similar tool to the one that journalist Alex Reisner made available for the Books3 AI […]
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Poetry set to take centre stage: August 22
Registrations now open for Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day 2025 Friday 22 August 2025 is set to be a day where words take flight and poetry pulses through the streets, libraries, parks, bookshops, and unexpected corners of Aotearoa. Now in its 28th year, Phantom Billstickers National Poetry Day invites communities nationwide to create, share, […]
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Canadian Cultural Sovereignty
The Coalition for the Diversity of Cultural Expressions congratulates Mark Carney and calls on him to support Canadian cultural sovereignty Montreal, March 11, 2025 The Coalition the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (CDCE) congratulates Mark Carney on his appointment as leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and urges him to fully commit to supporting Canadian […]
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Ockham 2025 Shortlists announced
Ockham New Zealand Book Awards 2025 Finalists Announced Dazzling books that ‘address our moment’s most urgent concerns’ The $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction in the 2025 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards will be contested by three former winners of the award – Laurence Fearnley, Kirsty Gunn and Damien Wilkins – and Commonwealth […]
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International Mother Language Day 2025: Take Action for Andrzej Poczobut (Belarus)
“Andrzej Poczobut, a voice for the silenced, is paying a devastating price for his unwavering commitment to truth and justice. Locked away, deprived of the very freedoms he seeks to protect, his persecution is a chilling reminder of the lengths to which the Belarusian authorities will go to crush dissent. PEN International stands with Andrzej […]
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International Authors Forum (IAF) General Meeting 2025
Artificial Intelligence With the advent of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) systems, we introduced our AI principles last year to guide discussions and policymaking. These principles set out key considerations and emphasized the importance of a comprehensive legal framework that addresses copyright, privacy, data protection, and competition and consumer protection laws. Such a framework is essential […]
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The 2025 NFFD competition is open!
Send your best 300 words Submissions open through 30 April The 2025 judges for the national competition are the award-winning writers Brannavan Gnanalingam and Vana Manasiadis. The 2025 youth judge is Shilo Kino. How to enter can be found on the NFFD Competition page. More about the 2025 international youth competition later this month. MICRO MADNESS A free competition open to […]
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THE 2024 BRAM STOKER AWARDS® FINAL BALLOT
The Horror Writers Association (HWA) today announced the 2024 Bram Stoker Awards Final Ballot. Congratulations to all NZSA members shortlisted. Superior Achievement in an Anthology Ajram, Sofia — Bury Your Gays: An Anthology of Tragic Queer Horror (Ghoulish Books) Costello, Rob — We Mostly Come Out at Night: 15 Queer Tales of Monsters, Angels & Other Creatures (Running Press) […]
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NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 Shortlists
The NZ Booklovers Awards 2025 shortlist, announced today, features a mixture of debut authors and well-known writers. Books by Tina Shaw, Riley Chance, Rebekah Ballagh, Mandy Hager, Stacy Gregg and James Russell are among the diverse titles nominated for the NZ Booklovers Awards, along with exciting new writers and outstanding debut books. With five categories […]
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