Posted on February 11, 2025 at 8:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Here's how literature and the law have been intersecting in the news recently.
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Testimony in the trial of Hadi Matar, who is charged with stabbing and seriously injuring Salman Rushdie in 2022, will continue today, perhaps with the author himself testifying (Associated Press).
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Amanda Palmer, the ex-wife of Neil Gaiman who is also named in a woman's human-trafficking lawsuit against the author, denied the filing's allegations; Gaiman, who is accused of rape and sexual assault by several women, has also denied the charges (The Guardian).
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Newly unsealed emails shed more light on authors' claims that Facebook owner Meta pirated copyrighted books to train its artificial intelligence models (Ars Technica).
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