Human Authored scheme launched as generative AI threatens authors’ livelihoods 

The Society of Authors has launched a Human Authored scheme to help identify works written by humans in a market increasingly flooded by AI-generated books. It is the first of its kind launched by a UK trade association to help protect an entire profession. The move comes in the absence of any measure by the […]

How Did We Get Here?

Since 2022, at the Society of Authors, we’ve been asking ourselves this question regularly: how did we get here? With a world-leading copyright framework,  authors had been well-protected by UK law, which up until the advent of generative AI had protected the rights of creators. Yet today, we see just how fragile the UK copyright […]