ars technica Friday September 5, 2025
Authors are celebrating what Ars Technica calls a "historic" settlement expected in a class-action lawsuit over Anthropic's AI training data. US District Judge William Alsup recently confirmed that Anthropic and the authors "believe they have a settlement in principle” in the case. Although the lawsuit was raised by three authors—Andrea Bartz, Kirk Wallace Johnson, and Charles Graeber—Alsup allowed up to 7 million claimants to join based on the large number of books that Anthropic may have illegally downloaded to train its AI models.
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Griffin Museum of Photography Friday September 5, 2025
“Distinct from the gallery aesthetic, photobooks offer their own visual language, often conducive to more narrative qualities and seriality than the standard on-the-wall format,” notes the Griffin Museum of Photography in Winchester, Massachusetts, which presents its 15th annual Photobook Exhibition through Sept. 28. The exhibition features 40 photography books from artists including Adrian Schaub, Candice DiCarlo, Hillerbrand+Magsamen, Thomas Winter, Gay L. Johnson, Tokie Rome-Taylor and Tsai Wei Tseng.
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DIYPhotography Friday September 5, 2025
In August, Leica announced its first true 35mm film, Monopan 50, as part of a commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Leica I camera. But while the photography press focused on the centennial angle, overlooked was how this introduction positions Leica for the film photography resurgence that’s been quietly building momentum, notes DIY Photography. Recent market analysis shows film sales growing consistently, with younger photographers driving much of this growth.
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David Schonauer Friday September 5, 2025
The star of the annual Visa pour l'Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, is the exhibition "Jean-Pierre Laffont, Photographer Unchained," declares Eye of Photography. "His career began
during the Algerian War, but it was in the United States that Jean-Pierre Laffont established himself as a key French photojournalist. The sixties, the seventies, the eighties...He became a witness to
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