Who Owns the Story? AI, Copyright, and Authors
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Who Owns the Story? AI, Copyright, and Authors

AI continues reshaping publishing, and writers cannot afford to ignore what's happening. In this week's news episode, we explore the growing legal, ethical, and professional questions surrounding AI, authorship, copyright, and creative ownership.

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Overthinking Couch Topics:

  1. Publishing CEOs warning against an AI "witch hunt"
  2. The increasingly complicated question of what counts as authorship
  3. Copyright lawsuits against Meta over the training of its AI models
  4. The latest legal actions involving pirate libraries, including Anna's Archive and WeLib
  5. AI accessibility tools, speech-to-text software, and the debate over disclosure
  6. The possibility of future human-authorship certification systems
  7. Why proving you wrote your own work may become part of an author's professional life

We also take an in-depth look at a disturbing case involving author John Koenig and his project The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, examining how AI-generated content, search optimization, and unauthorized websites can affect an author's reputation, visibility, and relationship with readers.


Music licensed from Storyblocks.

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