After widespread errors occurred in claims for the Anthropic copyright settlement, rightsholders now have 60 days to submit information to support their claim. Previously, the deadline for filing a dispute was 30 days from the day the claimant received their notice about the settlement allocation (between September 2–4). The settlement website notes that disputes may not be resolved within those 60 days. “Any works for which disputes are not resolved before the first distribution of Settlement payments will not be included in the first distribution and will instead be included in a subsequent distribution,” the site says.
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Authors Talk: Carrie Lee South
In the Woods They Wait. (Little, Brown, Sept. 22, 2026. Editor: Liv Ryan. Agent: Via Romano.) Carrie Lee South earned her MFA at the Arkansas Writers Workshop where she served as the fiction editor for the literary magazine Arkana. She’s currently the fiction editor at StoryBottle Co. Her work has appeared in Waxwing, F(r)iction, Iron Horse Literary Review, Tales to Terrify, and elsewhere. When she’s not reading and writing, she’s spending time with birds—the ones outside and the four parrots that live in her house. How did you find your agent? I started by reading through the acknowledgements of some […]