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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Jun 2

Want to know how to protect your creative work from AI piracy?

Find out here 👇

#writing #writers #WritingCommunity #authors #Booksky 📚💙 #publishing #fiction #novels #GraphicNovels #nonfiction #books #design #art #photography #illustration #IntellectualProperty #copyright #NoAI #GenAI

How to protect your book from AI piracy

Book piracy has become a big issue in recent months. In case you might not be aware of what’s been happening, LibGen is an illegal site containing millions of pirated texts from books, resear…

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · May 27

Do you know how the law applies to your writing?

It might not be as obvious as you think!

Find out here 👇

#writing #WritingCommunity #fiction #nonfiction #Booksky 📚💙 #authors #WritersOfBluesky #editing #journalism #communications #books #law #PublishingLaw #copyright #IP #IntellectualProperty

How does the law apply to your writing?

Do you know how the law applies to your writing? When you’re publishing content, chances are you’ll come across legal matters at some point in the process. And they could be things you …

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Eric Smith @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social · May 13

Very weird to see writers cheering for A.I. audiobooks. This is the same horrible machine that they want to replace YOU. Audiobook narrators are your peers.

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · May 5

Good innit! 😁

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · May 4

Right! No idea it had been around for 10 years before I found it too 😁

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · May 4

May the 4th be with you – now more than ever!

(This never gets old 👇😁)

#StarWars #StarWarsDay #MayThe4th #FeelTheForce

Darth Vader Being a Jerk, HD Special Edition

YouTube video by Todd Vaziri

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · May 4

In the bluebell wood 2... 🪻

#photography #bluebells #BluebellWood #wood #trees #flower #floral #Beechwoods #NaturePhotography #Nature #ThePhotoHour #blue #woodland #walking #NatureWalk #FlowerPhotography #weekend #green

A view along a shaded path in a beech wood with bluebells

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 30

In the bluebell wood... 🪻

#photography #bluebells #BluebellWood #wood #trees #flower #floral #Beechwoods #NaturePhotography #Nature #ThePhotoHour #blue #woodland #walking #NatureWalk

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 29

She taught me Russian Literature: I learned a lot about the country, its history and culture from studying those authors.

No doubt some of those books are on the banned list now: Solzhenitsyn, Nabokov, maybe even Dostoyevsky.

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 29

College is such a valuable and important time and chance to encounter other perspectives. Erasing them erases lived history, philosophy and experience...

This week, one of my professors passed away.

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 29

Put it this way: uni didn't 'wake me up' – it didn't need to. I'd not come from a soft, affluent background, had already lived its effect.

But it did facilitate my ability to question, to think critically.

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 29

And the best Department of Government, with the UK's leading experts on Thatcherism and elections at the time, very much in demand in academe and the media.

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 29

I was taught by Oxbridge-educated Marxist professors. Doc Martens-wearing, Smiths-listening types who rated Brecht and worked with Brenton and Hare...

...But there was an active Conservative Society on campus.

A vibrant international student body.

And incredible, sometimes heated debate.

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 29

Not brutal, but an excellent class war putdown from a guy crossing the road to a posh, rah Cambridge student on a bike braying at him to 'Get out of my way!':

'Oh shut up, you plum' 😂

Calling someone a fartleberry is savage (see Grose's Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue)

And just for fun, this 👇😁

Shakespeare Insult Generator

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Big Green Boo!!!!!! @biggreenbooks.bsky.social · Apr 29

Tomorrow it's the 7th birthday of #buyastrangerabook!

It first happened on May 2nd 2018.

Incredible!

Thanks so much for allowing it to keep going.

I LOVE doing it and really hope you enjoy it all too.

See you tomorrow!

www.bigissue.com/culture/book...

An indie bookshop is getting strangers to buy each other books on Twitter

Big Green Bookshop is giving readers the chance to #buyastrangerabook every Wednesday

www.bigissue.com

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The Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · Apr 24

We welcome news about the joint venture between the Copyright Licensing Agency, Publishing Licensing Services & @alcs.co.uk to develop a collective licence for generative AI. This announcement is timely and demonstrates that licensing for AI is possible with transparency & remuneration for authors.

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 22

Gillian, talk to a lawyer about misrepresentation and defamation. Right of paternity could be an issue here too, if ChatGPT has stolen your work and regurgitated it under your byline. People have already brought cases where AI has hallucinated and libelled them.

See also this 👇

Stop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law Project

Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 20

😬 That looks like the aftermath of a medical procedure!

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 20

Are you a creative?
You need to see this 👇
#WritingCommunity #writing #writer #author #design #designers #art #artists #illustration #illustrators #videography #video #photography #photographers #musicians #music #edibuddies #editing #journalism #journalists #law #AI #copyright #IntellectualProperty

Good Law Project @goodlawproject.bsky.social · Apr 20

If you’re a creative and want to fight back against big tech mining your work for their AIs, please register below – and then share with your community.

And, if we get enough people, we believe we’ll be able to sue – and hold them to account.
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Stop AI giants stealing our work | Good Law Project

Use the form and let us know the nature of your enquiry, so we can pass it to the relevant team as quickly as possible.

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 19

Very nice!

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 19

Excellent choice!

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 18

Post a GIF of who you wanted to be as a kid

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 18

Post a cool library 📚

Library of Congress, Washington DC, 1800.

The national repository for every book published in the USA, important historic documents and much more! 📚📜

#LoveYourLibrary #skybrarians #libraries #librarians #reading #Booksky 💙📚 #books #research #architecture #writing #buildings

Exterior of the Library, a huge building in white stone in the American classical style. Immense and imposing

Epic interior of the circular reading room. An ornately painted dome in the ceiling centre looks down on arched stained glass windows around the room. Beneath them, inset arches on two levels in Roman amphitheatre style surround wooden desks in rows around a central statue

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 18

😊 The atmosphere in bluebell woods is so serene and special 😍

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Lisa Cordaro | Non-fiction editor @lisacordaro.bsky.social · Apr 17

It's that magical time of year...🪻

#bluebells #Beechwood #nature #flowers #floral #woods #NaturePhotography #photography #LandscapePhotography #ThePhotoHour #BluebellWood #woodland #WoodlandWalk

A view of bluebells flowering in a beechwood. A shaft of light is streaming across the carpet of flowers diagonally, from left to right

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