Considering myself to be a virtually insignificant author, I'd been ignoring many posts from various places about the Anthropic Copyright Class Action lawsuit. I mean, who would want to copy my writing style for AI, especially when I'd been told recently that my style was too old-fashioned and not emo enough. And then, I got a call from my daughter saying that my very best book, Queen of the Mardi Gras Ball, was already included in the suit--but I sure hadn't put it there.
This put my husband on the hunt for more information which he found in The Atlantic magazine which listed all the titles that had been pirated and used for AI training, thousands of them, and twenty-three of my thirty-nine titles were on the list. Twenty-two of them were Wild Rose books and one strange choice, a sequel to a book I did for another press which is now out of print. But of all those books, only Queen had a national copyright that I'd shelled out money and filled in a tedious form to obtain. Silly me, I thought implied copyright as stated in the front of my books was enough for protection. Big nope. Here is the link if you want to look for your books.https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/03/search-libgen-data-set/682094/ . www.theatlan
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