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Indie developer republishes out-of-print novel 'Professor Mmaa's Lecture' via small press

A solo game developer has taken on publishing as a side project, tracking down the rights holder to bring the out-of-print book 'Professor Mmaa's Lecture' back into circulation. The developer negotiated rights, drafted a contract using the Authors Guild's model agreement as inspiration (with help from Claude AI), and corrected Amazon's mistaken assumption that the book was public domain.

Microsoft says Copilot rarely copies news or book text in copyright lawsuit filings

Microsoft submitted 8.2 million Copilot chat logs as part of discovery in copyright suits from The New York Times, the Center for Investigative Reporting, and book authors. The company says only 59,545 logs shared at least 16 words with plaintiffs' news content, with far fewer showing substantial text overlap, and just 10 of 212 books evaluated had any matching passages.