Apr 01 2025: Rightwing groups around the US are pushing legislation that would place new limits on what books are allowed in school libraries in a move that critics decry as censorship often focused on LGBTQ+ issues or race or imposing conservative social values.
Mar 27 2025: On March 25, U.S. District Court judge Stephen Locher of the Southern District of Iowa reinstated an injunction against book restrictions in Iowa Senate File 496, a 2023 state law that has resulted in the removal of hundreds of books from Iowa public school libraries. ...
Mar 26 2025: A lawsuit brought by publishers and authors including John Green and Jodi Picoult has led to a portion of a law banning Iowa school libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts being halted.
Mar 25 2025: Australian authors say they are “livid” and feel violated that their work was included in an allegedly pirated dataset of books Meta used to train its AI.
The parent company of Facebook and Instagram is being sued by authors in the United States, including Ta-Nehisi ...
Mar 21 2025: For 120 years, the Haskell Free Library & Opera House has straddled the Quebec-Vermont border, offering equal access to Canadians and Americans alike, passport-free. That was the vision of its founder, the philanthropist and dual-citizen Martha Haskell, who believed in ...
Mar 20 2025: When employees at Meta started developing their flagship AI model, Llama 3, they faced a simple ethical question. The program would need to be trained on a huge amount of high-quality writing to be competitive with products such as ChatGPT, and acquiring all of that ...
Mar 17 2025: On Saturday, the Association of American Publishers (AAP) issued a response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's request for public comment regarding the development of the Administration's Artificial Intelligence Action Plan. In their submission...
Mar 17 2025: In a March 14 executive order, the Trump Administration is seeking to eliminate the Institute for Museum and Library Services “to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law.” The EO states that the IMLS—along with six additional entities including the U.S. Agency...
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