[Air-L] More on the Anthropic deal for academic authors

[Janet Salmons]

Thanks, danah for mentioning the deal with Anthropic to (minimally) compensate authors whose books were pirated. 
First, before you start eyeing a new yacht, keep in mind that the promised $3K per book settlement is split between authors and publishers. They are recommending a 50/50 split but that will be up to the publisher. I'm trying to find out what academic publishers plan to do and will share that information if/when I get it.

Also, the fact that they ripped off your books is not enough: the "list" represents a narrow time frame. In my case, 6 books are in the database of stolen books but only one was taken during the time period covered by the settlement.

The process is a little different for authors of textbooks, monographs, or books published by university presses. FYI educational/textbook and university press/academic authors represent almost half of the close to 500,000 works infringed in the class! The Textbook and Academic Authors Association collaborated with the Authors Guild to make sure our special issues were addressed. TAA's Kim Pawlak was in the hearing room and is actively involved in getting correct information to all of us. She asked me to share this on my Substack newsletter:
Info for Educational and University Press Authors Filing Claims in Bartz v. Anthropic
The Textbook & Academic Authors Association provides trustworthy guidance
https://janetsalmons.substack.com/p/info-for-educational-and-university

By the way, it is a good time to join TAA and/or the Authors Guild!

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Take care,
Janet

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