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Liesl R

@littlebutfierce.bsky.social

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Copyright librarian. Expect much fangirling about books, theatre and Shakespeare here.

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Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 33m

Alan Carr on #TheTraitors is rapidly becoming my favourite contestant across all series. He’s having the most stressful time and it is superb tv.

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 3d

My favourite weekend activity: discovering new museums and stretches of canal to explore

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 3d

This cat is far too precious ❤️

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 24d

My favourite thing about visiting friends with cats is just how affronted they manage to look at the wrong human stepping through the door

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Doug McCarthy @culturedoug.bsky.social · 28d

ultra-nano version for people running to catch a bus

#Icepops25

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 28d

Two cats looking starved with full food bowls. “Mother, feed us, for we are but skin and bone” “Mother cares not for us”

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 28d

Classic cat behaviour, you must be punished for the betrayal of leaving 😛

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 28d

Manchester is also full of spectacular street art so I very much enjoyed snapping some pics between conference activities.

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 28d

Now en route home from a fantastic #icepops25 As the lone copyright officer in my institution, I benefit so much from the copyseek community and always come away with a ton of ideas.
Plus the John Rylands library is a beautiful place to get to explore.

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Richard Carr @richardcarr.bsky.social · 28d

AJP Taylor: not a referencing guy

Extract from Taylor’s Course of German History:

“It will be apparent. no doubt, to the reader that I have written this book by lifting facts from a great many other books and, from a few, even ideas.
The American method, in such cases, is to list all the books that have been pilfered; I prefer the English method of mentioning none. If the reader does not accept my credentials, he will not be induced to do so by a display of the sources from which my plumes are borrowed.”

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 28d

I can always be relied upon to find the best bougie brunch within an area

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 28d

I did enjoy just how quickly you scooped that one up!

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 29d

It’s always a good work day when your office looks like this ☺️ #icepops25

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 29d

(Hermes for me, of course. Not just because of Hadestown, but it definitely prejudiced my choice)

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 29d

As a Greek mythology nerd, today’s icebreaker was right up my street. #icepops25

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 29d

It’s my turn to have cursed trains since you suffered the horrors at ALN 😛 We made it as far as Bradford and I caught the next one without incident so it could be worse!

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 29d

Is it truly a work conference day if you don’t end up stranded due to cancelled trains?
(Good grief I’m glad I opted for an early start for this one)

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · 29d

It’s taken me over a week to get over the current strain from my negative test, def recommend resting up if you can as this one’s awful

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Sep 8

Since this was described as an official statement from their communications department, I am sharing it here.

It is, imo, the standard every publisher should be meeting immediately. I'm grateful to our team at Tor for being so on top of this. (And also Montlake who registered everything.)

We are writing to provide an update regarding copyright registration concerns in connection with the Anthropic class action settlement.

As you may have heard, the settlement agreement for the Bartz v. Anthropic case has been filed for preliminary approval. The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has prepared a detailed press release available here and a list of FAQs available here.

In reviewing our records, we discovered that U.S. copyright registration has not been obtained for some of our authors’ works. From what we currently understand, this was largely our mistake and we take full responsibility. If your work was excluded from the settlement for this reason, we will make you whole by paying you what you otherwise would have been paid under the settlement.

We are also taking corrective action. Our team is conducting a thorough review to identify affected works and close any registration gaps. While this issue is understandably concerning, we want to reassure you that your work has always been protected by U.S. copyright law from the moment of its creation. Registration has implications in the context of lawsuits, but not for the fact of protection.

We regret this error and are committed to making it right. Please reach out to copyrights@macmillan.com with any questions.

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Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Sep 8

Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this.

Every pub should do this.

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · Sep 7

this part right here is gonna create massive resentment in the industry. the copyright registration system and the fact that you apparently have to pay a bonus fee for protection from big companies pirating your work (and that tons of publishers never paid the bonus fee...)

Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · Sep 7

Instead of working to include as many writers as possible in the settlement, the plaintiffs instead agreed on arbitrary and minimal definitions of which books would be included. It’s almost like they wanted a quick win – any win – even if they screwed over most authors. 4/

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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · Sep 6

My blog post about the Bartz v. Anthropic class action suit, updated with details on the recent settlement and a link to the official class action website writerbeware.blog/2025/08/15/b...

Bartz v Anthropic: Find Out if You May Be Part of This Class Action - Writer Beware

Almost exactly a year ago, a group of authors filed suit against AI company Anthropic over its creation of an enormous library of digitized books to train its Claude LLMs. In addition to purchasing an...

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Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · Sep 6

More useful info on the Anthropic lawsuit: this is one of the cases that in my opinion was likely to determine the future of AI, so well worth following

Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Sep 5

Okay, the filing is here. I’m reading.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Sep 5

I’m seeing reports that they have settled at $3,000 per work, and if so, I need to see the settlement amount

Mediagazer @mediagazer.com · Sep 5

Filing: Anthropic will pay $1.5B to resolve an authors' copyright lawsuit over the company's downloading of millions of pirated books (Bloomberg)

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Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · Sep 4

No trouble at all ☺️

Liesl R @littlebutfierce.bsky.social · Sep 4

Congrats on the RR launch 🎉🎉🎉