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The Machine Can See You. It Still Can’t Pay You.

Artisan tie-dyer at work in Modiya, Kindia, Republic of Guinea. Photograph by John Brown, courtesy of the Institute of African Textile.
Courtesy of the Institute of African Textile / Photo by John Brown. Artisans tie-dyer in Modiya, Kindia, Republic of Guinea

Somewhere in a court-approved spreadsheet, nearly half a million books have become line items. Whatever a book once was in the making of it, the years of revision and abandonment and recovery before it ever reached a reader, it now exists in that file as an eligible work with a claim status, a payout estimate, […]

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