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  • ACLU of Tennessee lawsuit looks to stop book bans in Rutherford County April 17, 2025
    The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee filed a lawsuit April 16 against the Rutherford County Board of Education in response to the banning and restriction of more than 140 books from school libraries in that Tennessee county. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville, was brought on […]
  • Book bound in the skin of a 19th-century Suffolk murderer goes on display April 15, 2025
    A second copy of a book bound in the skin of a notorious 19th-century murderer is now on display at a Suffolk museum. However, Horrible Histories creator Terry Deary has told the Guardian that the volume is a "particularly sick" artefact which "shouldn't be on display".
  • AAP files amicus brief in Meta AI copyright case April 14, 2025
    The Association of American Publishers filed an amicus brief on April 11 supporting authors in their class action lawsuit against Meta for copyright infringement related to AI training. The brief argues that Meta's use of copyrighted works to train its LLaMA AI model fails to meet fair use standards and contradicts the company's claims that […]
  • Mississippi orders deletion of race and gender databases in state libraries April 11, 2025
    The Mississippi library commission, which offers services such as specialized research assistance to libraries in the state, has ordered the deletion of two research collections: the race relations database and the gender studies database. The collections were stored in what's called the Magnolia database, which is used by publicly funded schools, libraries, universities and state […]