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Human Authored – six months in

The SoA’s Human Authored scheme is about to reach its sixth month of existence. Since the launch in March at the London Book Fair, the scheme has been positively received...

Anthropic case approved

The world’s largest copyright claim has been approved. US District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín approved the Anthropic deal on 20 July in San Francisco. The settlement first proposed last September resolves...

Your questions answered at Human Authored lunchtime learning event

Join us later this month for an online panel session bringing together authors and SoA staff to explore the Human Authored scheme in detail. The scheme has proved hugely popular...

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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...

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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...