Хэвлэлийн компаниуд болон утга зохиолын агентлагууд зохиогчдод олгох нөхөн олговрыг үндэслэлгүйгээр нэхэмжилж байгаа нь зохиолчдын эсэргүүцэлтэй тулгарлаа
Хиймэл оюун ухааны загваруудыг сургахад зохиогчийн эрхээр хамгаалагдсан материалыг ашигласан хэргээр Anthropic компани 1.5 тэрбум ам.долларын нөхөн олговрын хэлэлцээрийг өнгөрсөн долдугаар сард эцэслэн баталсан билээ. Уг хэлэлцээрийн дагуу хулгайлагдсан бүтээл тус бүрд 3,000 ам.доллар олгохоор төлөвлөсөн бөгөөд хэвлэгдсэн номын хувьд орлогыг зохиогч болон хэвлэлийн компани 50:50 хувиар хувааж авахаар заасан байна. Харин хэвлэгдэхээ больсон эсвэл өөрөө хэвлүүлсэн бүтээлийн хувьд бүх төлбөрийг зохиогч авах ёстой юм.
Гэвч сүүлийн өдрүүдэд зохиогчид хэвлэлийн компаниуд болон утга зохиолын агентлагуудыг эрхгүй бүтээлүүдээс хувь нэхэмжлэх, эсвэл 50 хувиас илүү хэмжээгээр төлбөр авахыг оролдож байна хэмээн гомдол гаргах болжээ. Зохиолч Эйприл Хенри зэрэг олон уран бүтээлчид өөрсдийн бүтээлийг хэвлэлийн компаниуд үндэслэлгүйгээр нэхэмжилж байгааг олон нийтийн сүлжээгээр дамжуулан шүүмжилсэн байна.
Мэргэжилтнүүдийн үзэж буйгаар энэхүү асуудал нь хэвлэлийн компаниудын бүртгэл хөтлөлтийн алдаа болон нөхөн олговрын үйл явцын төвөгтэй байдлаас үүдэлтэй байж болзошгүй юм. Authors Guild-ийн гүйцэтгэх захирал Мэри Разенбергерийн тайлбарласнаар, энэ нь хэвлэлийн компаниудын санаатай үйлдэл гэхээсээ илүүтэй зохион байгуулалтын шинжтэй алдаа байх магадлалтай гэв.
Хэдийгээр зарим хэвлэлийн компаниуд алдаа гарсан гэдгээ хүлээн зөвшөөрч Anthropic-д залруулах хүсэлт гаргасан ч, гомдол гаргагчдын тоо олширч байгаа нь асуудал илүү өргөн хүрээтэй болохыг харуулж байна. Зохиогчид нөхөн олговрын хуваарилалттай холбоотой маргаан үүссэн тохиолдолд холбогдох журмын дагуу гомдол гаргах боломжтой бөгөөд үүнд 2022 оны наймдугаар сарын 10-наас өмнө эрх нь шилжсэн эсэхийг нотлох шаардлагатай ажээ.
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Some authors hoping to receive their share of Anthropic’s $1.5 billion copyright settlement said they received surprising emails this week — emails informing them that someone else was making a claim on their payments.
Anthropic settled a copyright class action suit last year, after a judge ruled that training AI models on copyrighted material is legal under fair use doctrine, but pirating that material was not. The deal received final approval in July, allowing the payments to move forward.
Under the terms of the settlement, the authors of nearly 500,000 titles will be paid $3,000 for each pirated work. If the book is still in-print with a traditional publisher, the money will be split 50-50 between author and publisher. If the book was self-published, or if the publisher reverted the rights by allowing the book to go out-of-print, then the author should get the entire payment.
But writers have been posting on social media that publishers seem to be claiming more than their fair share of some payments. For example, mystery and thriller author April Henry asked, “WTF is HarperCollins playing at? They claimed one of my books on the Anthropic Settlement that reverted back at least 17 years ago AND on the same day I got a credit alert saying they had been added as my employer! (which they never were).”
At the popular blog Writers Beware, Victoria Strauss wrote that she’s been receiving author complaints that fall into two broad categories: one where publishers are seeking payment for works that they no longer have a legitimate claim on (because the rights have reverted), and another where publishers are seeking a full 100% payment when they’re only entitled to 50%.
In both cases, Strauss said she’s “reluctant to attribute to malice what can be plausibly explained by poor recordkeeping” — and she noted that some publishers have already said this is a mistake that they’ve asked Anthropic to fix.
Similarly, Authors Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger told The New York Times that she doesn’t see this as “a grab by the publishers” and that she doesn’t believe publishers are “specifically trying to screw any author over.” Instead, she argued that this is the predictable result of bad record-keeping and a confusing settlement process.
Strauss also acknowledged that any complaints she’s seen are just “a peek through a small crack in a massive wall.”
“But the unusually large number of reports I’ve received over the last two days, as well as the fact that authors are reporting the exact same errors over and over, suggest to me that these aren’t the kind of routine glitches you might expect from such a large operation, but something much more wide[s]pread and systemic,” she wrote.
And publishers aren’t the only ones seeking a cut of the payments. Strauss said she’s gotten complaints that a number of literary agencies are also making claims, which she said is surprising since “agents are not rightsholders in the books that they sell.”
Author Courtney Milan (the pen name of former law clerk and law professor Heidi Bond) was more blunt in a post on Bluesky, writing, “Apparently some agents are trying to claim percentages on the Anthropic settlement, and I do not REMOTELY think they should do this, what the fuck, stop that shit!”
Milan and the Authors Guild also shared more details about how authors can dispute their payment allocations. (One tricky issue: When the rights to a specific book reverted. In order for an author to make a 100% claim on a book, the rights reversion needs to have happened before August 10, 2022, which is the “download date” in the settlement.)
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