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21 January 2025

Please complete our survey by 9 February to help inform our response to the government’s copyright and AI consultation

20 January 2025

Author Fran Hill on keeping connected with an SoA local group

17 January 2025

The Society of Authors, the Creators’ Rights Alliance and the Creative Rights in Artificial Intelligence Coalition react to the Prime Minister’s plan to turn the UK into an ‘AI superpower’

16 January 2025

The SoA’s Legal Counsel, Keith Ashby, and Senior Contracts Advisors, Theo Jones and Ambre Morvan, give a snapshot of the law around image permissions

15 January 2025

The Society of Authors, the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain and Equity lead calls for the BBC to reverse cuts at Radio 3

8 January 2025

Former Management Committee member, Betty Trask Judge and lifetime SoA Fellow 1935-2025

8 January 2025

Honours given for services to literature, the creative industries and more

8 January 2025

A week of events celebrating translation, illustration and culture, to tie in with the 60th anniversary of our Scott Moncrieff Prize

31 December 2024

A round-up from the SoA on recent AI news