{"slug": "agents-for-jerry-falade-reportedly-withdraw-2-million-book-deal-with-minotaur-to", "title": "Agents for Jerry Falade reportedly withdraw $2 million book deal with Minotaur due to concerns about possible AI use. AI book witch hunt fells another author.", "summary": "The Guardian reports that agents for debut author Jerry Falade withdrew his manuscript \"Call Me, I'll Hide the Body\" from Minotaur, an imprint of Macmillan US, over concerns about possible AI use. The book had reportedly won a $2 million auction, but the agents said they could no longer authenticate how the manuscript evolved and withdrew it.", "body_md": "**The Guardian reports that the agents for debut book author Jerry Falade withdrew the manuscript for his book “Call Me, I’ll Hide the Body.” **\n\nThe book was much coveted by publishers. Falade’s agent Marc Gerald** **held the auction for the U.S. print. Minotaur, an imprint of Macmillan US, won the auction for reportedly the price tag of $2 million.\n\n**The Guardian reports an email sent by his agents to publishers: **\n\n“Jerry Falade produced an incredible manuscript that dazzled us and the top publishing professionals around the world. Unfortunately, we are no longer able to authenticate how the manuscript fully evolved from origin to completion.\n\n“During the submission process we vetted the manuscript with Jerry for AI and felt trusting in his reassurance that it was written without utilising AI as a resource in the writing or editorial process. We can no longer substantiate that, and we are withdrawing the book.”\n\n#### What does copyright have to do with this?\n\nOne entertainment lawyer on TikTok suggested that concerns about the potential loss of copyright protection for AI-generated works could factor in the decisions to pull publishing deals, especially books that might be turned into movies.\n\nThis sounds persuasive to me.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agents-for-jerry-falade-reportedly-withdraw-2-million-book-deal-with-minotaur-to", "canonical_source": "https://chatgptiseatingtheworld.com/2026/08/03/agents-for-jerry-falade-reportedly-withdraw-2-million-book-deal-with-minotaur-due-to-concerns-about-possible-ai-use-ai-book-witch-hunt-fells-another-author/", "published_at": "2026-08-03 12:12:51+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-08-03 12:18:29.115078+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Jerry Falade", "Marc Gerald", "Minotaur", "Macmillan US", "The Guardian"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agents-for-jerry-falade-reportedly-withdraw-2-million-book-deal-with-minotaur-to", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agents-for-jerry-falade-reportedly-withdraw-2-million-book-deal-with-minotaur-to.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agents-for-jerry-falade-reportedly-withdraw-2-million-book-deal-with-minotaur-to.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/agents-for-jerry-falade-reportedly-withdraw-2-million-book-deal-with-minotaur-to.jsonld"}}