The shadow chancellor's new book has come under scrutiny for lifting passages of text from other sources without acknowledgment. Academic writers explore how this can happen
Creative artificial intelligence provokes a strange mixture of contempt and dread. People say things such as "AI art is garbage" and "It's plagiarism," but also "AI art is going to destroy creativity itself." These reactions are contradictory, but nobody seems to notice. Read more
Writing in the Observer in 1980, Martin Amis took to task a young New York-based writer, Jacob Epstein, for plagiarising him. In Wild Oats, Epstein had taken not just plot structures or character ideas from Amis's debut, The Rachel Papers, but had duplicated whole sentences. Read more
The historical novels The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and The Giver of Stars, published a few months apart, share some noticeable similarities. Book Woman author Kim Michele Richardson has raised concerns; Moyes denies having read Richardson's book.
American authors are hurting. Surveys done by the Authors Guild show that the median income of authors from writing has declined 42% in the last 10 years. Well over half of full-time, published authors now earn below the individual poverty level from their writing.
In a ringing endorsement, the United States' leading author-advocacy trade organization, the Authors Guild, today (April 29) has issued a statement in support of author Nora Roberts' lawsuit against an alleged Brazilian plagiarist. Read more
Nora Roberts is one of the world's most popular authors. She's written more than 200 novels, tackled topics from romance to murder and sold more than 500m books around the world. And now she's really, really angry. Read more
Disputes involving AJ Finn, romance writers and even filmmaker Danny Boyle are in the news - but showing someone stole your idea is close to impossible Read more
Plagiarism is always aspirational. In a wish to have someone else take their place, or supply their words, plagiarists generally steal something better than they might write themselves. Read more
Last week, the literary lawsuit against Chad Harbach's 2011 bestseller, The Art of Fielding, was dismissed. This week, Charles Green-the author of the unpublished novel Bucky's 9th that Green believes Harbach mined for plot points and other elements-said he is going to appeal. Read more
‘I always quote Kurt Vonnegut. He said in the early part of his career he was dismissed as a science fiction writer and that critics tend to put genre books, including sci-fi, in the bottom drawer of their desk... It's true. I get the New York Times every Sunday. In 37 novels, I've never had a stand-alone review. I'm always in the crime round-up.
A survey of 787 members of the Society of Authors (SoA) has found that a third of translators and a quarter of illustrators have lost work to generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. Translators are also more likely to use AI to support their work, with 37% of respondents saying they have done so, followed by 25% of non-fiction writers.
The author Lynne Reid Banks, known for her novel The L-Shaped Room and her children's book series The Indian in the Cupboard, has died at the age of 94.
I launched my podcast Making It Up nearly three years ago with the goal of interviewing writers not for any particular work of theirs, but to talk to them about their lives. I didn't want to ask them what famous author they want to have dinner with or what their top five favorite books are ... yech. Read more
Until we have a mechanism to test for artificial intelligence, writers need a tool to maintain trust in their work. So I decided to be completely open with my readers