AI Copyright Consent: Why Nobody Asked You First
At some point, your writing, your photographs, your illustrations, or your music ended up inside an AI model. Not because you agreed to it. Not because anyone called. It happened…
AI Training Licensing: Questions to Ask First
AI companies are actively seeking creative work to train their models, and that means creators are getting offers — sometimes formal, sometimes buried in a terms-of-service update…
How to Report Copyright Infringement: Step by Step
Finding your photograph on someone else’s website, or your article republished word-for-word without credit, is a genuinely unsettling experience. The good news is that the…
Is Your Book in Books3? How to Check AI Datasets
If you have published a book — traditionally, independently, or even as a long serialized work online — there is a realistic chance it was included in an AI training dataset…
Someone Stole Your Work Online — Here Is What to Do
Finding your work copied somewhere you never put it is a gut-punch. Whether it is a photo, an article, a design, or a video, the feeling of helplessness is real — but you have…
DNS Blocking Expands: What It Means for Creator Rights
A Belgian court has issued a final ruling that requires major public DNS resolver services to block domains linked to pirated live sports streams. The decision goes further than…
AI Training Lawsuits: When Rivals Become Your Evidence
A lawsuit over AI training data has taken an unexpected turn. Authors including Richard Kadrey and Sarah Silverman sued Meta, claiming its Llama language models were trained on…
74 Sports Pirates Charged: What Creators Can Learn
Seventy-four people have been referred to prosecutors in Vietnam’s Hung Yen province over a network of websites that streamed pirated football matches, including Premier League…
Unpatched Plex Servers: Protect Your Media and Your Work
More than 36,000 Plex Media servers that are reachable over the internet have not been patched against known security flaws. These are not theoretical weaknesses — they are…
Forgotten App Access: How Google Workspace Leaks Your Work
A webinar has put a spotlight on a quiet but serious problem for anyone who works inside Google Workspace. Third-party applications that were granted access to your account —…
Mathspace Breach: What Exposed Student Data Means for You
Mathspace, an online mathematics learning platform, has disclosed that attackers broke into an internal reporting tool called Metabase and took data belonging to more than one…
Store Backdoor Threat: Protect Your Creative Revenue
A security flaw called StyleSmuggler has been found in every version of Magento and Adobe Commerce. If you run a store on either platform, you need to act now — not because a…
RMM Platform Flaw: What Creators Must Do Right Now
A security flaw in a widely used remote management platform has been confirmed as actively exploited, meaning real attacks were under way before a fix was available. If a…
Piracy’s £1.35bn Price Tag: What It Means for Creators
A report backed by major UK broadcasters and the UK Intellectual Property Office has put a number on something creators have long felt but struggled to quantify. According to the…
Hacked Sites, Hidden Payloads: Protect Your Creative Work
Thousands of small-business websites have been quietly turned into traps. Visitors land on pages that look completely normal and walk away with malware on their devices — without…
153 Million Licenses Exposed: What Creators Must Do Now
More than 153 million driver’s license records were allegedly taken from IDScan, a company that provides identity verification services to other businesses. The data was…
ARM Windows Crashes: A Creator’s Data Recovery Plan
A Microsoft update broke Teams and Outlook on ARM-based Windows devices — including the Surface Pro and a range of Snapdragon-powered laptops. For many users, the apps simply…
When Software Breaks: What Creators Risk Losing
A software update rolled out to Windows on ARM devices recently caused Microsoft Teams and Outlook to stop launching entirely on affected machines. For some users, the apps…
Admin Token Theft: What It Means for Your Creative Work
A security vulnerability has been found in JFrog Artifactory, a widely used tool for storing and distributing software packages and digital files. The flaw is being actively…
Take Back Control: Managing Your Personal IP Online
If you have ever Googled yourself and found your photo on a site you never heard of, or discovered a client using work you thought you’d reclaimed, you already understand the…
Own Your Work: Protecting Your Personal IP Online
If you create things for a living — writing, design, photography, code, music, courses, consulting — your work is also your identity. That makes protecting it more urgent, and…
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