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Bestselling Perth author Dervla McTiernan strikes again with new release, The Unquiet Grave
The Irish-Australian author is making an anticipated return to her beloved DS Cormac Reilly series with new novel The Unquiet ...
The Australian Financial Review5d
AI is eating all the books you love. What happens when it runs out?
Hayward recalls another story of an Australian romance author who was horrified to discover that someone else had written a book in her name ... reserved for editing news copy.
Mamamia on MSN11d
Lauren wrote an 'erotic' book under a pen name. Then she was arrested.
Lauren Teslolin-Mastrosa was living an average life in Sydney's western suburbs. The 33-year-old marketing executive worked ...
Meta allegedly used pirated books to train AI. Australian authors have objected, but US courts may decide if this is ‘fair use’
Australian authors are among those caught up in Meta’s use of LibGen, an illegal book repository, to train its AI. What are the legal implications?
The Australian25d
Australian writers seek government help in legal battle with Meta
owned by News Corporation, publisher of The Australian, last year offered writers up to $4000 to use their books to train its AI machines. The Australian Society of Authors praised HarperCollins ...
National Review28d
The Case of the Erotica Author Arrested in Australia
an Australian author writing under the pen name “Tori Woods,” was arrested and charged with producing, possessing, and disseminating child-sexual-abuse material in her new erotica novel titled ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation22d
Kerry Greenwood, author of the Phryne Fisher series, dies aged 70
Australian author Kerry Greenwood ... More than 700,000 copies of Greenwood's books have been sold across Australia and New Zealand and an additional 700,000 copies overseas.