At the recent London Book Fair, one stand attracted a lot of attention with it’s bold, but single display and lots of copies of just one book.
Don’t steal this book had one simple message. If we allow AI companies to copy millions of books – and if you are a writer, we mean your books – without permission or payment – then there’s going to be nothing left.
As I’ve posted earlier, we – journalists, publishers, authors, trade unions – are all urging the Government not to legalise what has been referred to ‘large-scale theft’.
The book (left) lists thousands of individual authors who had already put their names to this fight. If AI companies don’t pay their will be empty pages – amply illustrated by the body of the book (right) consisting of hundreds of blank pages.
Unpaid writers, empty pages = no books for readers!
Don’t Steal This Book is supported by Fairly Trained, Society of Authors and the Publishers Association as well as every fair minded writer, publisher and reader in the land.
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