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In a new copyright suit against tech companies including OpenAI and Anthropic, Chicken Soup for the Soul alleges that AI developers’ piracy streak began in the late 2010s, when an OpenAI employee downloaded titles from Library Genesis, a digital shadow library, inspiring a wave of imitators. The HarperCollins employee union ratified compensation increases and labor protections in its new three-year contract, winning workers one of the highest base pays in the publishing business. Mariner Books is reissuing all 31 of Philip Roth’s books with new, modern cover designs via its Classics line, beginning in May with American Pastoral. Hachette has canceled publication of Mia Ballard’s Shy Girl in light of evidence that the originally self-published horror novel relied heavily on AI-generated text, the New York Times reports. The incident, the Times argues, is a warning for publishers, who have few mechanisms in place to filter out AI writing from their submissions queues. Crown will publish Liane Moriarty’s sequel to her hit novel Big Little Lies, which will be adapted into a new season of the HBO show, per the Hollywood Reporter. In page-to-screen news, Deadline reports that Aaron Taylor-Johnson has been tapped to star in a Netflix limited-series adaptation of André Aciman’s novel Enigma Variations, and actress-author Krysten Ritter will star in a Warner Bros. TV adaptation of her thriller novel, Retreat. And according to CNN, the U.S. Postal Service may be unable to deliver mail within the year, the Postmaster said, unless Congress intervenes.