Jon Davis

Write to Feel Right

Here's a little book by Michael Rosen that's supporting young people in using creative writing to help their mental health.
Write to Feel Right, published by Collins Big Cat, illustrated by me.
www.michaelrosen.co.uk/portfolio/wr...

The Government is siding with big tech over British creativity.

Today is the FINAL chance to respond to their consultation on AI and copyright.

Let's make sure creators' voices are heard. Guidance below 👇 #MakeItFair #PayTheCreator

www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

AI is profiting from human creativity – isn’t it time creators got their fair share?

A fair deal for creators isn’t just about making things right, it is essential for the future of creativity and AI.

Find out more: societyofauthors.org

#PayTheCreator #MadeByHumans

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Today's the final day to make our voices heard against the government's proposed plans to allow AI developers to steal our work for use in training their AI systems. It's theft, plain and simple, but you can object by filling out the IPO consultation.

Guidance here: theaoi.com/news/the-cop...

If you write, record, paint, draw or use and enjoy any of the products of people who write, record, paint and draw, please appeal against the upcoming AI legislation. #StrengthenCopyright

Copyright and A.I. consultation: how to respond - DACS DACS has produced a guide to completing the UK Government's consultation on Copyright and artificial intelligence, to help you respond and express your views on the Government's proposals.

DACS also got you covered:
www.dacs.org.uk/news-events/...

ALCS here to help too:
www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

I took part in this great @bedfordindependent.bsky.social article with a number of other arty folk talking about the new AI copyright laws. Also includes a link to the template email to send to your local MP asking them to help us stop this crazy new ruling from going through. Have a read please 👀

8 February 2025 Cancel the Christie's AI Art Auction Nicole Sales Giles & Sebastian Sanchez Christie’s, New York Dear Nicole and Sebastian, We are writing to express serious concern over your upcoming auction of AI art at Christie’s. Many of the artworks you plan to auction were created using AI models that are known to be trained on copyrighted work without a license. These models, and the companies behind them, exploit human artists, using their work without permission or payment to build commercial AI products that compete with them. Your support of these models, and the people who use them, rewards and further incentivizes AI companies’ mass theft of human artists’ work. We ask that, if you have any respect for human artists, you cancel the auction. Yours sincerely, The undersigned artists

🔴CALLING ALL ARTISTS🔴

Christie's NYC is planning an AI art auction expected to bring in over $600,000 to creators who've used models trained on copyrighted material from non-consenting artists.

If you object to this, please sign and share this open letter.

openletter.earth/cancel-the-c...

I was prepared to give it a few chances just cos it was about Ghosts. But mr Claypole was far too annoying. Have fonder memories of The Ghosts of Motley Hall :

Government 'overwhelmed' by thousands of responses to AI and copyright consultation More than 2,500 responses have been received with less than a week to go before the deadline, The Bookseller can exclusively reveal.

ICYMI: With under a week until the government’s consultation on AI and copyright ends, more than 2,500 responses have been received so far 👇 #BookSky

Kate Bush and other artists protest AI copyright laws with silent album Music stars including Kate Bush and Damon Albarn say law changes would damage people's livelihoods.

The new four minutes and thirty three seconds of total silence, with added fight against AI slop...

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Your rights are under threat from AI. It’s time to have your say! The Government recently launched a consultation on AI and copyright. Now is the time to have your say and make sure that legislators hear the concerns of creators.

If you haven't - please do fill this in. If you are a creative of any sort. The ALCS guidelines are very useful as the questions become more impenetrable. Also - you don't have to answer it all. www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

The government's preferred proposal on #CopyrightAndAI will have a crippling effect on the UK's creative industries.

So, if you're NOT a creative, but you value the arts and like living in a country that has a healthy creative industry and can spare the time to object to this proposal, please do!

Let's get some #FridayFunding going and help get From Parts Unknown over the line!

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For those keeping score, so far this week Microsoft has found that regularly using generative AI reduces a person's critical thinking skills, and the BBC has found that AI news summaries contain "significant issues" 51% of the time.

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Cartoon by me is in the @theguardian.com today.
You can see it online as well
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NO, we don’t want to give up copyright protection Follow these tips and tricks to complete the AI consultation in no time at all

Thank you Chris!
The most important thing we can do is encourage everyone we know to respond to the consultation itself - this post breaks it down so it's easy to do!
againstthebox.substack.com/p/time-to-ha...

Creatives, if you haven't done this yet please do!

This is very urgent. The UK government is planning to change copyright law. If you are an artist, author, musician or work in the creative industry please read this.

www.chrishaughton.com/blog/ai-and-...

By the fireside Podcast Episode · The Island of Brilliant! · 01/01/2025 · 43m

If you’d like to listen to a meandering podcast about children’s literature, it is here.
Frank Cottrell-Boyce and I chat about 2024 in kids books and generally waffle on:

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A text post that reads. Look, here's the thing: alice in wonderland's enduring fucking charm is that it perfectly captures the vibe of being a very tired and annoyed child who is nonetheless required to play along with adult nonsense. Alice is dragged from place to place without warning, forced to play stupid games with no good prizes, grilled over her schooling and manners and recitation and dress, scolded, judged, insulted to her face, sent away, given gifts she didn't ask for and doesn't like, corrected incorrectly, been subject to shifting and arbitrary rules, and then when she gets snappish with all this bullshit everyone acts like a little girl's temper is the end of the fucking world. Alice in wonderland isn't a drug trip or a nightmare or a metaphor, that's just what being ten years old is LIKE. that's why kids love it so much. even if they can't quite articulate how, they recognize themselves in it.

Still the best take I’ve seen on the story.

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