ALLi's news podcast opens with indie publishing's speed advantage - smaller teams can respond to retailer and reader shifts while corporate pipelines lag - then pivots to the Harlequin AI micro-drama controversy.
That segment unpacks why romance authors erupted: derivative rights, consent to new formats, and fears that franchised "universes" could spawn machine-made spinoffs without clear creative credit. For anyone licensing IP, it's a contract object lesson in real time.
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