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Jay Baron Nicorvo

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Author of award-winning true crime memoir BEST COPY AVAILABLE; novel THE STANDARD GRAND; poetry collection DEADBEAT.

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A Clanker of a Creator: Anthropic’s Frankensteinian Fair Use

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By Jay Baron Nicorvo
| Poets & Writers Magazine Verified
The summary judgment in the largest ever copyright-infringement settlement in U.S. history, issued in June 2025, determined that artificial intelligence company Anthropic adhered to copyright law when it amassed a central library of over seven million books to build and train its large language model (LLM), now called Claude.
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The Anthropic Settlement: Novelists vs. the AI Revolution

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By Jay Baron Nicorvo
| The Wall Street Journal Verified
The fiction business may survive, but not in any way that we recognize. A protest against Meta’s use of copyrighted books to train AI in London on April 3, 2025. Photo: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press My wife and I live on 48 acres in the middle of nowhere. Yet the government—local, state, federal—could let a power company put up poles on our land using the authority of eminent domain. The Fifth Amendment allows the government to grab private property for public use if owners receive just compensation.
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The abuse story too seldom told

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By Jay Baron Nicorvo
| Las Vegas Sun Verified
For years I tried, and mostly failed, to tell the story of my childhood molestation. I played a kind of literary hide-and-seek. To throw the reader off my trail, I threw my voice. I became a practiced ventriloquist. My first dummy was a poem, and even though my poetry tends toward the confessional, I couldn’t bring myself to confess openly. I used metaphor, fine writing, versifying, as a feint. Five years later, I tried again. This time, in a novel, I could lend my sexual abuse to my characters.
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