Japan Book Publishers Association demands copyright law review in light of AI developments
The group stressed the need to clarify the interpretation of, and decide whether copyright law...
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Category: AI
AI is not the bad guy. We need to stop demonising our most precious tool and tackle the human problem
Moral indignation is cheap. The outrage at the use of AI to disadvantage Jane Friedman speaks...
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Pearson doubles down on generative AI – “a net positive for Pearson” – amid strong H1 growth
“I very much see generative AI as being a net positive for Pearson” – CEO Andy Bird. Pearson...
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Bonnier UK on AI – not so Luddite after all!
There are far more people employed in publishing today than at any time in history, and that is...
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$6.5 million funding for AI-focussed comics outfit GlobalComix as Amazon sidelines Comixology
” This includes delivering AI-powered tools that drastically improve creator workflow and...
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Thad McIlroy on “Why Publishers Must adopt AI”
“This is not a good time to be technology-averse. Artificial intelligence stands to...
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The IPG’s decision to explore AI is welcome, but we need to be more open still to its possibilities
For every author who is ranting against the “threat” of AI there is another actively...
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The courts are not the place to try protect author career paths. Joseph Saveri LLP should stick to its primary remit
IP laws already exist. They exist to protect intellectual property, not to protect creator...
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Who owns the copyright on a book written by artificial intelligence? Maybe that’s not the right question
A 2016 legal argument that copyright can only exist if something is created by a human, based on a...
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HarperCollins India will embrace AI audiobooks – just as soon as the right voice comes along
India is still only at 60% internet penetration, but given that equates to 833 million of...
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AI is absolutely a threat to publishing jobs, and we need to come to terms with that
Booklovers don’t buy audiobooks to keep narrators in a job. They buy audiobooks because they...
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Life on Jupiter: Deep Blue vs Kasparov revisited. Publishers, wake up and smell the AI coffee
At a time when the very definition of intelligence is being challenged – ‘It’s...
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