PW Digital Marketplace
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CopyrightMeta Wins AI Copyright Case, But Judge Writes Roadmap for Authors’ Revenge
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria granted summary judgment to Meta in a copyright case brought by 13 authors, saying they offered virtually no proof of how they were harmed by Meta's use of their work, while outlining several ways they might succeed in the future.
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Copyright
Federal Judge Rules AI Training Is Fair Use in Anthropic Copyright Case
A federal judge in California has issued a complicated ruling in one of the first major copyright cases involving AI training, finding that while using books to train AI models constitutes fair use, downloading pirated books was a violation of copyright law.
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Retailing
NetGalley Launches Consumer Marketing Platform, Booktrovert
The Firebrand subsidiary, which offers prepublication digital book galleys to industry pros, has launched Booktrovert.com, a consumer marketing platform offering e-book giveaways, reader activities, promotional campaigns, and book sales.
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Content / e-books
Everand Acquires Online Book Club Platform Fable
Everand, the online e-book and audiobook subscription service and subsidiary of Scribd, has acquired the social reading and book club app Fable, which has three million users and hosts more than 100,000 book clubs.
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Devices
Amazon Cuts Jobs in Book Division
The e-tail giant has laid off an undisclosed number of employees in its Books division, adding that fewer than 100 roles were affected. The cuts include roles in Amazon’s Kindle unit and at book review platform Goodreads.
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Devices
Barnes & Noble Makes Change in Nook Leadership
Replacing Susan McCulloch with Jennifer Perry is the latest move at the bookselling chain in its pivot to focus its resources on its bricks-and-mortar stores.
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Content / e-books
Ingram Adds AI Tools to iD Advertising Platform
Ingram Content Group has added AI-powered ad copy generation and automated image creation tools to its Ingram iD advertising platform, which it says has access to four million active book buyers.
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Content / e-books
Audible Expands Catalog with AI Narration and Translation Services
Audible is now offering AI-powered narration and production services to select audiobook publishers, with AI translation services to launch in beta later this year.
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Copyright
Copyright Chief Fired Amid AI Debate
The Trump administration fired Shira Perlmutter, the register of copyrights and director of the U.S. Copyright Office, on Saturday—just one day after the dismissal of her boss, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden, and the Copyright Office’s release of a preliminary report on generative AI and copyright.
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Conferences
AI 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.
