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ConferencesAI in Publishing: PW Talks with Fauzia Burke
The veteran publicist and founder of FSB Associates will keynote this Friday’s Professional Publishers Network conference in Berkeley, Calif., where she will offer an optimistic view on AI’s potential in an industry often resistant to technological change.
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Copyright
As Industry Demands AI Licensing Frameworks, Emerging Tech Can Help
With generative AI forging ahead unfettered, leaders in publishing and other creative industries are asking for licensing frameworks that protect creators while enabling technological innovation. New platforms and software are bringing solutions closer.
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Conferences
AI Threatens Creators’ Livelihoods, Experts Say
Experts from different creative industries discussed how they are coping with technological disruption at a conference last week in Washington, D.C.
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Conferences
Unethical AI Training Harms Creators and Society, Argues AI Pioneer
Ed Newton-Rex, founder of the U.K.-based nonprofit Fairly Trained, argued at a recent forum in Washington, D.C., that AI companies’ unlawful use of creative works to train AI models has had deleterious effects not only on artists’ incomes and livelihoods but on the open internet.
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Content / e-books
The Audiobook Business Learns to Embrace AI
At a panel at this year’s London Book Fair, executives from Bookwire, Hachette, and Storytel examined AI’s impact on the audiobook market, opportunities the technology could create, and concerns over rights management and compensation.
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Copyright
Book Biz to Big Tech: Pay Up, Then We Can Make Up
Artificial intelligence is upending publishing, and industry leaders know there’s no end in sight. That’s why they plan to win key copyright lawsuits—then forge a path forward through Silicon Valley.
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Copyright
Publishers See Mixed Messages in Paris AI Summit
The just-concluded Artificial Intelligence Action Summit did not include copyright protection as one of its six top priorities, to the disappointment of the AAP, but did mention that protection of IP is worthy of “global reflection.”
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Apps
Former PRH India Editor Develops AI-Powered Editorial Platform
Editrix, a new AI-powered editorial platform founded by Meru Gokhale, aims to provide automated developmental editing, structural editing, and inline editing capabilities for fiction and nonfiction manuscripts.
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Copyright
New Government Report Addresses ‘Copyrightability’ of AI Works
A report from the U.S. Copyright Office determined that works purely generated by AI are not eligible to be copyrighted, but works created by human authors assisted by AI can be given copyright protection.
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Content / e-books
Created by Humans AI Rights Platform Launches for Authors
The startup, launched by Scribd cofounder Trip Adler, has unveiled its AI rights licensing platform for authors, which allows for the licensing of AI training rights and reference rights.
