A solution to AI copyright woes? Trip Adler, who co-founded Scribd, thinks his sleek marketplace can convince AI startups to finally pay up. Read more from Abe Brown 👇

Most readers will tell you they begrudgingly use Goodreads because there are no other options...until now! Congrats Paul Warren and the Margins team on your launch!

One of the main reasons generative AI can write so well is that it had 600 years of books written by humans to train on. We want authors to participate in this new economy so human creativity and AI innovation can thrive.

The startup, launched by Scribd cofounder Trip Adler, has unveiled its AI rights licensing platform for authors, which allows for the licensing of AI training rights and reference rights. buff.ly/3Wk9v02

AI Rights for Authors: ‘Created by Humans’ Launches | @PorterAnderson publishingperspectives.com/2025/01/ai-rig… Created by Humans Trip Adler Jen Singerman @giant_ventures @authorsguild | The platform opens for authors’ registration of their copyrighted works in a proprietary AI Rights framework.

The Created by Humans platform went live yesterday. This is the first time that creators can directly participate in the AI economy. Huge number of major author sign-ups already! Congrats Trip Adler and team.

I’m excited to share that just two weeks after our official product launch, Created by Humans has raised an additional $5.5 million of seed funding! This takes our total funding to $11M.

Books don't take time, they GIVE you time: An author spends 4 years studying a specific topic and 1 more year summarizing the most important lessons they learned into a single book. By reading their book, you can download 5 years of experience in just 5 hours.

It was only a matter of time before AI video ran headfirst into copyright law. Now we’re in it. You’ve got AI-generated Stormtroopers lighting up the internet right now, and Disney’s gonna want their cut. And you know what? Rightfully so. That said, we’re entering a new era

Good discussion on copyright and AI from Friday's This Week in Startups - thanks for including Created by Humans. We want to move beyond lawsuits and build systems that work for creators and AI developers.

As the legal battle plays out between creators and AI companies, Created by Humans is advocating for a new vision for how copyright and AI fit together. If we get this right, it will be a win for AI and a win for the American creative industry. Read our blueprint and let us know

Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.

There is an easy way for LLM companies to play nice with the IP owners who they would be nothing without: 1. respect them 2. pay them 3. ask them for permission OpenAI is going to lose their The New York Times case, and @disney and Universal Pictures will beat Midjourney. Why not do what