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Martin’s “A Game of Thrones” to live-action role play costumes and Gandalf's staff from "The Lord of the Rings" films, a new London exhibition opening on Friday delves into the fantasy genre. "Fantasy: Realms of Imagination", running at the British Library, features more than 100 items from around the world including manuscripts, first editions, games, film props and costumes. “Fantasy has never been as exciting as it is today." "Fantasy: Realms of Imagination" runs until Feb. 25, 2024. Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Editing by Rod NickelOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.
Persons: George R.R, Martin’s, Lewis, Ursula K, Le, Tanya Kirk, Marie, Louise Gumuchian, Rod Nickel Organizations: British, Reuters, Thomson Locations: London
NEW YORK (AP) — On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio, rare originals are being displayed and publishers are offering collectors editions of Shakespeare's plays, including one that sells for $1,500. The British Museum is collaborating with Rizzoli Books in New York on “Shakespeare’s First Folio: 400th Anniversary Facsimile Edition,” contained within a slipcase cover. Besides Doran's introduction, the Folio Society release includes a foreword by Dame Judi Dench. “In an era when everything seems disposable, I feel like there's a good market for fine editions of classic books,” says Folio Society publishing director Tom Walker. “You can buy a Ben Jonson folio for a few thousand dollars; a Shakespeare folio will cost you millions.
Persons: Shakespeare's, Mr, William Shakespeares, Shakespeare, “ Macbeth, , ” Gregory Doran, Adrian Edwards, George R.R, Martin's, Dame Judi Dench, Neil Packer, , Tom Walker, Chris Laoutaris, Ben Jonson, Benjamin Jonson ”, Henry, Emily Folger, Sir George Grey, ” Laoutaris, , James Shapiro Organizations: Royal Shakespeare Company, British Museum, New York Public Library, British, Rizzoli Books, Folio Society, Folio, Shakespeare Institute, Avon, Columbia University Locations: New York, London, playwright's, Stratford, British, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, United States, United Kingdom, Japan, Germany, France
Naveen Rao is VP of Generative AI at Databricks and co-founder of LLM-training platform MosaicML. Rao says copyright infringement could prevent companies from successfully monetizing AI. Rao, who oversees generative AI strategy for Databricks after it bought his startup MosaicML for $1.3 billion, likens it to the issue that crushed Napster, the 2000s-era music-sharing platform. "We build tools that enable companies to differentiate their AI from everyone else's and leverage their data uniquely," Rao told Insider. The more people building generative AI technology the better, Rao says.
Persons: Naveen Rao, Rao, , ChatGPT, Jodi Picoult, George R.R, Martin, OpenAI, he's Organizations: Service, Napster, Apple, iTunes, Thrones, Metallica, Qualcomm, Intel
Slamming the tentative labor deal between Hollywood writers and studios, media mogul Barry Diller on Tuesday laid out his biggest bone of contention with generative artificial intelligence. "All we want to do is establish that there is no such thing as fair use for AI, which gives us standing." Generative AI and language-based model systems index entire bodies of work within their knowledge base, a violation of fair use, some argue. Altman, who also served on the Expedia board with Diller, testified before senators in May to discuss regulations on AI. Altman also said that Shutterstock was critical in the training of OpenAI's generative media AI, DALL-E.
Persons: Barry Diller, Diller, George R.R, Martin, Jodi Picoult, OpenAI, Diller isn't, that's, Sam Altman, Sam, Altman, " Altman, Shutterstock Organizations: Hollywood, IAC, Writers Guild, WGA, Alliance, Television Producers, Wall Street, CNBC
Martin and other authors are suing ChatGPT owner OpenAI claiming copyright infringement. It follows a series of lawsuits writers launched against OpenAI over similar accusations. This latest lawsuit joins a series of legal disputes that writers have launched against OpenAI on similar accusations of copyright infringement. Associated Press, for instance, struck a two-year agreement with OpenAI that gives the AI company permission to train ChatGPT on its archive of news stories. As for the Authors Guild, writers "must have the ability to control if and how their works are used by generative AI," Authors Guild CEO Mary Rasenberger wrote in a statement.
Persons: George R.R, Martin, OpenAI, , John Grisham, Mona Awad, Paul Tremblay, Weeks, Sarah Silverman —, Christophe Golden, Richard Kadrey —, It's, Mary Rasenberger, Rasenberger Organizations: Service, OpenAI, of, Hollywood, The New York Times, Stability, Getty, Associated Press, Authors Guild Locations: Wall, Silicon, ChatGPT, Southern, of New York
REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 20 (Reuters) - OpenAI on Wednesday unveiled Dall-E 3, the latest version of its text-to-image tool that uses its wildly popular AI chatbot ChatGPT to help fill in prompts. Dall-E 3 will be available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise customers in October via the API, the company said. OpenAI said the latest version of the tool will have more safeguards such as limiting its ability to generate violent, adult, or hateful content. OpenAI said creators could opt out of using some or all of their work used to train future text-to-image tools. OpenAI's race to create accurate text-to-image AI tools has several competitors, including Alibaba's Tongyi Wanxiang, Midjourney and Stability AI, who continue to refine their image-generating models.
Persons: Dado Ruvic, Dall, ChatGPT, " DALL, OpenAI, Tongyi, John Grisham, George R.R, Martin, Chandni Shah, Subhranshu Sahu Organizations: REUTERS, Enterprise, Washington D.C, Thomson Locations: Washington, Bengaluru
NEW YORK (AP) — John Grisham, Jodi Picoult and George R.R. Martin are among 17 authors suing OpenAI for “systematic theft on a mass scale,” the latest in a wave of legal action by writers concerned that artificial intelligence programs are using their copyrighted works without permission. “Great books are generally written by those who spend their careers and, indeed, their lives, learning and perfecting their crafts. The online giant is now asking writers who want to publish through its Kindle Direct Program to notify Amazon in advance that they are including AI-generated material. Amazon is also limiting authors to three new self-published books on Kindle Direct per day, an effort to restrict the proliferation of AI texts.
Persons: — John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, George R.R, Martin, OpenAI, David Baldacci, Sylvia Day, Jonathan Franzen, Elin Hilderbrand, Mary Rasenberger, Direwolves, Michael Chabon, David Henry Hwang, , Sarah Silverman, Paul Tremblay, Organizations: Authors, Amazon, Kindle Locations: New York, U.S, San Francisco, California
New York CNN —A group of famous fiction writers joined the Authors Guild in filing a class action suit against OpenAI on Wednesday, alleging the company’s technology is illegally using their copyrighted work. Martin, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham and Jonathan Franzen are among the 17 prominent authors who joined the suit led by the Authors Guild, a professional organization that protects writers’ rights. “Generative AI threatens to decimate the author profession,” the Authors Guild wrote in a press release Wednesday. Two other authors sued OpenAI in June over the company’s alleged misuse of their works to train ChatGPT. Authors should have the right to decide when their works are used to ‘train’ AI,” author Jonathan Franzen said in the release on Wednesday.
Persons: OpenAI, George R.R, Martin, Jodi Picoult, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, Mary Rasenberger, , Sarah Silverman, Silverman –, ” Sam Altman, Rasenberger, James Patterson, Roxane Gay, Margaret Atwood —, Organizations: New, New York CNN, OpenAI, Authors, of, CNN, Amazon, Meta, San, Microsoft Locations: New York, Southern, of New York, San Francisco federal
A group of prominent U.S. authors, including Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R. Martin and Jodi Picoult, has sued OpenAI over alleged copyright infringement in using their work to train ChatGPT. In July, two authors filed a similar lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging that their books were used to train the company's chatbot without their consent. In January, Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt were hit with a class-action lawsuit over copyright claims in their AI image generators. Microsoft, GitHub and OpenAI are involved in a proposed class-action lawsuit, filed in November, which alleges that the companies scraped licensed code to train their code generators.
Persons: Sam Altman, OpenAI, Chuck Schumer, Jonathan Franzen, John Grisham, George R.R, Martin, Jodi Picoult Organizations: Intelligence, Senate, U.S, Capitol, Washington , D.C, Authors Guild, OpenAI, Getty, Microsoft Locations: Washington ,, Manhattan
The Authors Guild lawsuit is the latest in a series brought by writers against OpenAI. “It knew everything, and that’s when I got a bad feeling.”A representative for OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Since OpenAI introduced ChatGPT in November, authors, publishers and retailers have been trying to rein in the rampant and increasingly disruptive incursion of A.I. Amazon has taken steps to monitor and curb the influx of A.I.-generated books. to its customers, but it may do so in the future, according to an Amazon representative.
Persons: David Baldacci, Jodi Picoult, George R.R, Martin, George Saunders, Michael Connelly, Douglas Preston, ChatGPT, , , , OpenAI Organizations: OpenAI, York Mycological Society Locations: A.I
A keyboard is placed in front of a displayed OpenAI logo in this illustration taken February 21, 2023. In addition to Microsoft-backed (MSFT.O) OpenAI, similar lawsuits are pending against Meta Platforms and Stability AI over the data used to train their AI systems. Other authors involved in the latest lawsuit include "The Lincoln Lawyer" writer Michael Connelly and lawyer-novelists David Baldacci and Scott Turow. The complaint said ChatGPT generated accurate summaries of the authors' books when prompted, indicating that their text is included in its database. It also cited growing concerns that authors could be replaced by systems like ChatGPT that "generate low-quality ebooks, impersonating authors and displacing human-authored books."
Persons: Dado Ruvic, OpenAI, John Grisham, Jonathan Franzen, George Saunders, Jodi Picault, George R.R, Martin, Michael Connelly, David Baldacci, Scott Turow ., Mary Rasenberger, Blake Brittain, David Bario, Daniel Wallis Organizations: REUTERS, Microsoft, Authors, Meta, Lincoln, Thomson Locations: Manhattan, Washington
Opinion | My Fantasy Bookshelf
  + stars: | 2023-05-26 | by ( Ross Douthat | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +3 min
After filing last week’s newsletter comparing “Succession” to a work of “Game of Thrones”-style fantasy, I recorded a podcast episode with Razib Khan in which we talked about our shared affection for actual fantasy novels, our experience as early George R.R. It was a wide-ranging conversation, but one that stayed mostly with the big names of the genre — Martin, J.R.R. To be clear, this isn’t a list of my all-time favorites or even a list of “fantasy novels that should be adapted for TV instead of making more seasons of ‘The Rings of Power.’” It’s just me turning a glance at my bookshelf into a newsletter. You can think of this list of novels, maybe, as various inspirations for that imagined perfection. Hobb’s hero, Fitz, is one of the most successful examples of character-building and compelling interiority in recent fantasy.
The Hollywood writers’ strike has shut down production and writing for a number of hit TV shows. Many creators and directors tweeted support for the Writers Guild of America, with some joining picket lines. The union is pushing for contractual changes to reflect the new world of streaming. The two sides aren’t close to a deal, so the strike could drag on. Here’s a look at the shows where work is paused, for now.
LOS ANGELES, May 8 (Reuters) - Writing for a new season of "The Handmaid's Tale" and a coming "Game of Thrones" prequel was halted as a nearly week-long strike by thousands of film and television writers rippled across Hollywood on Monday. Writing of the dystopian drama stopped when the Writers Guild of America (WGA) called a strike last week, Chang told Reuters on Monday. Martin said in a blog post that the writers' room for prequel series "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight" was "closed for the duration of the strike." Warner Bros has not announced a release date for "The Hedge Knight." The second season of "House of the Dragon," another "Game of Thrones" prequel, began filming in April, Martin said, and will continue in London and Wales.
REUTERS/Neil Hall/File PhotoLOS ANGELES, April 12 (Reuters) - Boy wizard Harry Potter is headed to streaming television in a new series based on the beloved books by author J.K. Rowling. Warner Bros Discovery (WBD.O) announced the series on Wednesday as part of the company's plans for its Max streaming service, which combines HBO Max with unscripted programming from Discovery. The seven Harry Potter books have sold more than 600 million copies worldwide. Harry Potter fan blogs and actors including Radcliffe objected to her remarks. Other new shows coming to Max include a new "Game of Thrones" prequel, titled "A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: The Hedge Knight," with author George R.R.
Endangered Komodo dragons hatch at Spanish zoo
  + stars: | 2023-03-28 | by ( Jon Nazca | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/5] Embum, a one-month-old baby Komodo dragon, one of the five Komodo dragons born at Bioparc Fuengirola, rests in a terrarium in Fuengirola, southern Spain, March 28, 2023. REUTERS/Jon NazcaFUENGIROLA, Spain, March 28 (Reuters) - Five Komodo dragon hatchlings have been born at a zoo in Spain, the first successful breeding of the world's largest lizard - an endangered species - in the country for a decade. "This is a great achievement for all of us," Milagros Robledo, the head of the Herpetology department at the Bioparc Fuengirola zoo in southern Spain and self-described "mother" of the dragons, told Reuters on Tuesday. The baby dragons' parents mated on June 24 last year, when Spaniards celebrate the feast of St John. In the wild, newborn Komodo dragons tend to move to the treetops and need no maternal or paternal care, Robledo said.
"House of the Dragon" will air its season one finale on October 23 on HBO and HBO Max. The "Game of Thrones" prequel series focuses on the Targaryen civil war. The season one finale will air on HBO and HBO Max on October 23. How to watch 'House of the Dragon'You can watch "House of the Dragon" exclusively on HBO and HBO Max. That said, many of the characters in "House of the Dragon" are ancestors of the characters we meet in "Game of Thrones."
(CNN) HBO has followed the majesty of "Game of Thrones" with what might be called "games of throne" in "House of the Dragon," a series whose epic visual grandeur belies a smaller and less addictive power struggle, more narrowly focused on the Targaryen line. It's not bad, and there are dragons aplenty, but it doesn't produce the sort of characters that defined and elevated its predecessor to prestige-TV royalty. Martin 's prequel "Fire & Blood," the new series has the disadvantage of being set almost two centuries before the key events in "Game of Thrones," taking place 172 years prior to the birth of Daenerys Targaryen. That ratchets up the pressure to sink or swim -- or rather, soar or sputter -- strictly on its own terms. (As an aside, all those flowing blond-white Targaryen locks should lock up a hairdressing Emmy, if nothing else.)
Most readers know George R.R. Martin from his hit series "A Song of Ice and Fire." Martin for his "Game of Thrones" success, he was an award-winning science fiction and fantasy writer for years before the first "Game of Thrones" novel was published in 1996. From the hit "Game of Thrones" series to early novels and novellas, here are the best George R.R. The 19 best George R.R.
Printr-o postare pe Twitter de pe contul oficial House of the Dragon, luni, a fost confirmată începerea procesului de producție la un serial a cărui acțiune se va desfășura în lumea fantastică a Game of Thrones. În privința premisei, „House of the Dragon” este inspirat din cartea „Fire & Blood” (2018), a cărei acţiune se petrece cu 300 de ani înainte de povestea din „Game of Thrones” şi prezintă aventurile familiei Targaryen, una dintre cele mai importante case ale acestui univers de fantezie epică. De aproximativ un an și jumătate, din octombrie 2019, se știe că House of the Dragon va fi primul serial menit să țină fanii Game of Thrones legați de HBO. În practică, acesta este al doilea serial a cărui acțiune este inspirată de scrierile fantastice ale lui George R.R. Primul a avut-o pe Naomi Watts în rolul principal, dar după filmarea pilotului, șefii HBO au decis că nu merită transformat într-un serial.
Persons: Paddy Considine, Olicia Cooke, Emma D’Arcy, Matt Smith, Toussaint, Targaryen, Emilia Clarke, George R.R, Martin ., Naomi Watts Organizations: HBO
Irlanda de Nord va inaugura în 2021 primul parc tematic din lume dedicat celebrului serial TV "Game of Thrones" (Urzeala Tronurilor), având în vedere că unele dintre cele mai palpitante acţiuni ale acestui super-serial au fost filmate în această provincie britanică, relatează EFE, citat de agerpres.ro. Parcul tematic, care se va numi "Game of Thrones Studio Tour", va oferi vizitatorilor oportunitatea de a explora platourile originale ale filmărilor unde se vor recrea cele mai emblematice scene şi peripeţii ale unor personaje centrale. "Această experienţă senzorială de submersie include locuri precum Debarcaderul Regelui, Winterfell, Dragostone, Zidul şi ţinuturile sălbaticilor sau oraşele Meereen şi Braavos", notează într-un comunicat Tourism Ireland. Prin acest parc tematic, autorităţile turistice speră să consolideze imaginea Irlandei de Nord ca destinaţie unică pentru fanii serialului "Game of Thrones". În afară de Linen Mill, o mare parte din "Urzeala Tronurilor" s-a filmat la Titanic Studios din Belfast şi în peisajele naturale din comitatele Antrim şi Down, ce pot fi străbătute în trei zile în cadrul unui itinerar de aproape 300 de kilometri.
Persons: George R.R, Martin, Linen Mill Organizations: Mill, HBO, Ireland, Titanic Locations: Irlanda de Nord, britanică, Belfast, Ireland, Winterfell, Irlandei, Nord, Linen, Antrim
Parcul va fi instalat în studioul de filmare Linen Mill, din localitatea Banbridge - în apropiere de Belfast - şi deşi pandemia de coronavirus va obliga impunerea anumitor restricţii, responsabilii au asigurat că parcul îşi va deschide porţile în cursul anului viitor. Parcul tematic, care se va numi "Game of Thrones Studio Tour", va oferi vizitatorilor oportunitatea de a explora platourile originale ale filmărilor unde se vor recrea cele mai emblematice scene şi peripeţii ale unor personaje centrale. „Această experienţă senzorială de submersie include locuri precum Debarcaderul Regelui, Winterfell, Dragostone, Zidul şi ţinuturile sălbaticilor sau oraşele Meereen şi Braavos", notează într-un comunicat Tourism Ireland. Personalul expert al parcului va oferi, de asemenea, detalii despre creaţiile acestui serial prin intermediul atelierelor interactive, în paralel cu realizarea de sesiuni de machiaj, proteze şi costumaţii, care au fost punctele forte ale serialului. Prin acest parc tematic, autorităţile turistice speră să consolideze imaginea Irlandei de Nord ca destinaţie unică pentru fanii serialului "Game of Thrones".
Persons: George R.R, Martin, Linen Mill Organizations: Mill, HBO, Ireland, Titanic Locations: Belfast, Ireland, Winterfell, Irlandei, Nord, Linen, Antrim
Parcul va fi instalat în studioul de filmare Linen Mill, din localitatea Banbridge - în apropiere de Belfast - şi deşi pandemia de coronavirus va obliga impunerea anumitor restricţii, responsabilii au asigurat că parcul îşi va deschide porţile în cursul anului viitor, potrivit Agerpres . Parcul tematic, care se va numi "Game of Thrones Studio Tour", va oferi vizitatorilor oportunitatea de a explora platourile originale ale filmărilor unde se vor recrea cele mai emblematice scene şi peripeţii ale unor personaje centrale. „Această experienţă senzorială de introducere în atmosfera filmului include locuri precum Debarcaderul Regelui, Winterfell, Dragonstone, Zidul şi ţinuturile sălbaticilor sau oraşele Meereen şi Braavos", notează, într-un comunicat, Tourism Ireland. Personalul expert al parcului va oferi, de asemenea, detalii despre creaţiile acestui serial prin intermediul atelierelor interactive, în paralel cu realizarea de sesiuni de machiaj, proteze şi costumaţii, care au fost punctele forte ale serialului. Prin acest parc tematic, autorităţile turistice speră să consolideze imaginea Irlandei de Nord ca destinaţie unică pentru fanii serialului "Game of Thrones".
Persons: George R.R, Martin, Linen Mill Organizations: Mill, Agerpres, HBO, Tourism Ireland, Titanic Locations: Belfast, Ireland, Winterfell, Irlandei, Nord, Linen, Antrim
În 2021 va apărea primul parc tematic „Game of Thrones”. Unde va fi localizat acestaIrlanda de Nord va inaugura în 2021 primul parc tematic din lume dedicat serialului "Game of Thrones" (Urzeala Tronurilor), având în vedere că unele dintre cele mai palpitante acţiuni ale acestui serial au fost filmate în provincia britanică, transmite Digi24. Parcul tematic, care se va numi „Game of Thrones Studio Tour”, va oferi vizitatorilor oportunitatea de a explora platourile originale ale filmărilor unde se vor recrea cele mai emblematice scene și peripeții ale unor personaje centrale. Vizitatorii pot admira și o colecție exclusivă de exponate și artefacte realizate de meșteșugari și designeri care au dat viață lumilor imaginate de George R.R. Prin acest parc tematic, autoritățile turistice speră să consolideze imaginea Irlandei de Nord ca destinație unică pentru fanii serialului „Game of Thrones”.
Persons: George R.R, Martin, Linen Mill Organizations: Mill, HBO, Tourism Ireland, Titanic Locations: Irlanda de Nord, britanică, Belfast, Winterfell, Meereen, Irlandei, Nord, Linen, Antrim
La această categorie au fost nominalizate serialele „Better Call Saul", „Bodyguard", „Game of Thrones", „Killing Eve", „Ozark", „Pose", „Succession" şi „This Is Us". În 2018, la această categorie s-a impus serialul „Game of Thrones". Martin, a fost favorită în acest an, cu 32 de nominalizări la premiile Emmy, cele mai multe nominalizări primite de un serial într-un singur an. „Game of Thrones" este cel mai premiat serial din istoria galelor Emmy. Cea de-a 71-a gală de decernare a premiilor Primetime Emmy, difuzată de postul american Fox, a avut loc duminică seară la Microsoft Theater din Los Angeles.
Persons: Saul, George R.R, Martin Organizations: Emmy, Creative Arts Emmy Awards, HBO, american Fox, Microsoft Theater Locations: american, Los Angeles
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