#Why this Canadian author wants AI companies to pay up

#Why this Canadian author wants AI companies to pay up

(Photograph by Ellis Parrinder) More than 10,000 members of the Authors Guild, America’s largest organization for writers, recently co-signed an open letter urging AI leaders at tech companies like Open AI (owner of ChatGPT) and Meta to stop using their work without permission or compensation. “Millions of copyrighted books, articles, essays and poetry provide ‘food’…

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#‘It Ends With Us’ Author Addresses Controversy Surrounding Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Casting in Sony Adaptation

#‘It Ends With Us’ Author Addresses Controversy Surrounding Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Casting in Sony Adaptation

It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover opened up about the controversy surrounding the casting of Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni in Sony’s adaptation of her best-selling novel of the same name. In a conversation with Today‘s Jenna Bush Hager at Hoover’s Book Bananza festival in Texas, the author shared details about the upcoming adaptation,…

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#‘Burn It Down’ Explores ‘SNL’ and Its “Culture of Impunity” (Exclusive Excerpt) – The Hollywood Reporter

#‘Burn It Down’ Explores ‘SNL’ and Its “Culture of Impunity” (Exclusive Excerpt) – The Hollywood Reporter

“For decades, SNL has been a frequently terrible, punishing experience for a lot of people who worked there or ended up in the show’s orbit.” That’s part of how author Maureen Ryan describes the workplace culture of NBC’s Saturday Night Live in her forthcoming book, Burn It Down: Power, Complicity, and a Call for Change…

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#Cannes: The 5 Best Books About the Festival

#Cannes: The 5 Best Books About the Festival

No book could ever fully capture the beautiful, ugly, inexplicable madness that is the Cannes Film Festival — but that hasn’t stopped a handful from trying. Here are THR’s executive editor (awards) and resident film-book bibliophile’s picks for the five best. 1. Two Weeks in the Midday Sun: A Cannes Notebook, by Roger Ebert (1987)…

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