Thanks so much Nicolette! Really glad you liked it 🦋🌱

Thank you so much for all your support Ian! So thrilled you enjoyed Cinnamon's first adventure 🍰💛

Ultimately copyright exists to protect workers AND businesses: letting AI developers sidestep the rules isn't just unfair in principle, it will create a precedent for further weakening of the law, enable further AI disinformation & impersonation, & catastrophically disadvantage creative careers.

There's broad support for maintaining or strengthening our current robust copyright laws not only across the creative industries but also across the political spectrum. You can email your MP by using the following template: www.creativerightsinai.co.uk/new-page

Other guides for completing the consultation here: www.dacs.org.uk/news-events/...

And here: www.alcs.co.uk/news/your-ri...

The deadline is a minute to midnight tonight. You don't need to answer all questions (although you can if so inclined) - just the key ones highlighted by the above guides.

I don't think you should, it's such a difficult balance for everyone! And I'd never want money to be the reason kids don't have access to events. Basically we all need more funding 🥲

Yep - sometimes it feels like publishing is powered almost entirely by gratefulness, and authors feel obliged to work at a loss just to ensure events are able to take place, when surely publishers should be taking on more of that burden. 😫