Lisa Varga recalls fielding questions from concerned parents as Harry Potter mania swept the globe in the early 2000s. Some were worried about the witchcraft; others didn’t think books about a boy ...

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Across Utah’s biggest school districts, 262 books have been banned. The district with the most bans — Washington County School District — removed 54 titles. The top author — fantasy writer Sarah J.

Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: Getty. Since my article appeared, I’ve heard from several authors wanting to know if their work is in Books3. In almost all cases, the answer has ...

Almost 200,000 books are being used to train artificial intelligence systems by some of the biggest companies in technology. The problem? No one told the authors. The system is called Books3, and ...

Harvard University announced Thursday it’s releasing a high-quality dataset of nearly 1 million public-domain books that could be used by anyone to train large language models and other AI tools. The ...

(AP) The creation of a full-text searchable database of millions of books is a fair use of copyrighted works, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday, saying it also is permissible to distribute the ...