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Our recap of the international publishing news for the week of July 27, 2026: Bloomsbury's Anthropic settlement estimate, S&S's new imprint for indie authors, strikes on Ukrainian publishers and more.
A joint court filing says agreed-allocation notices should go out by November 13, with the first payments to authors and other rightsholders the week of November 23.
The European Writers' Council and CEATL say the EU's final code on labelling AI-generated content is full of loopholes for books, and neither group will co-sign it.
Half-year Adjusted Profit was £16.8 million, against £24.0 million, and consumer revenue fell to £102.8 million. AI licensing continued at a smaller amount. Two Sarah J. Maas novels are still ahead, and the interim dividend rises 5% to 4.28p.
Charlotte Wood, Anna Funder and Markus Zusak joined the publishers' and authors' associations before Parliament's AI committee. They asked for opt-in licensing, not a looser copyright law.
On October 19, two complaints in the Northern District of California named 60 and 57 authors suing Meta Platforms. They want a jury to set statutory damages, and they allege a book-scanning operation called Project Vellum.
He told Die Zeit he would rather sue alongside other artists. Two German children's publishers are already taking OpenAI to court in Munich.
Catch up on indie publishing news for October 18, 2026, including Alexa Tablets' Kindle Mode, AI training transparency in Korea, and the Anthropic settlement.
The Korea Publishers Society opened signatures on an October appeal that asks government, parliament and AI firms for disclosure, permission and pay.
The Literature Translation Institute of Korea says it found 21 Korean writers' books on the Anthropic compensation list and notified the authors, Yonhap reports.
The Wired co-founder and bestselling author says training AI on books is fair use, and cites an indie novelist who used AI for research and continuity.
The NWU says AI companies are buying print books, slicing off the bindings, scanning the pages and throwing the paper away, and that rare titles could vanish for good.
WIRED reports that HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Hachette staff are using LLMs for publicity copy, agent emails and marketing, often at executives' urging.
At an Australian parliamentary AI hearing, Anthropic said current copyright law makes local model training impossible. Creative groups said the law should stay as it is.
The settlement administrator extended the co-claimant allocation window from 30 to 60 days and expects the first payments on or before November 15, 2026.
The Authors Guild wants publishers to drop claims on long out-of-print books and to pay authors when a house failed to register the copyright in time.
A federal court has granted final approval to a landmark $1.5 billion settlement with AI company Anthropic, offering compensation to authors whose copyrighted works were used without permission to train AI models. Eligible authors, especially indie and…
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