Bestselling author Andrea Bartz emerged as a champion for writers this week, playing a central role in negotiating a $1.5 billion settlement from AI company Anthropic for the unauthorized use of copyrighted books in training its chatbots. Bartz, alongside fellow authors Charles Graeber and Kirk Wallace Johnson, served as named plaintiffs for the class action lawsuit that represented writers whose works were allegedly pirated without consent.
Ivan Klíma, the celebrated Czech novelist, playwright, and anti-communist dissident whose work chronicled life under Europe’s totalitarian regimes, has died at 94. His son, Michal Klíma, told the Czech news agency ČTK that he passed away Saturday morning at home after a long illness.
