AGP Executive Report
Last update: an hour agoAI & Copyright: A federal judge signed off on Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement in a landmark author-piracy case, cutting lawyers’ fees again and setting per-claim payouts around $3,000. Publishing & Books: Apple TV has rights to adapt Rebecca Yarros’ next novel, Peculiar Stars, keeping the book-to-screen pipeline hot. Literary Culture: A column on spoiler preferences argues spoilers can change the emotional experience—not just the surprise. Entertainment (Books on Screen): Reviews and coverage keep circling Nolan’s The Odyssey and how adaptation choices shift tone and meaning. Tech & Science (Reading-adjacent): NSF launches a program to unlock dataset value for AI-enabled scientific discovery, aiming to make existing research data more usable. Local Book World: Jenny Jackson returns to Ipswich to talk The Shampoo Effect, with local landmarks fueling the fiction. Trials & Authors: Salman Rushdie’s attacker faces a federal terrorism trial tied to the decades-old Satanic Verses fatwa narrative.
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