The Association of American Publishers filed an amicus brief on April 11 supporting authors in their class action lawsuit against Meta for copyright infringement related to AI training. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-04-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Association of American Publishers has issued a response to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's request for information regarding AI regulation, emphasizing the critical role of copyright protections in maintaining American leadership in AI markets. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-03-17 04:00:00 UTC ]
The Publishers Association's Dan Conway calls for 'partnership' rather than 'subservience' as the UK's AI consultation closes. The post UK: ‘The Great Copyright Heist Cannot Go Unchallenged’ appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2025-02-25 23:10:14 UTC ]
Architect of copyright law says EU is ‘supporting big tech instead of protecting European creative ideas’An architect of EU copyright law has said legislation is needed to protect writers, musicians and creatives left exposed by an “irresponsible” legal gap in the bloc’s Artificial Intelligence... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-19 12:13:58 UTC ]
The Thomson Reuters decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rights holders. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2025-02-11 20:50:03 UTC ]
Exclusive: Beeban Kidron says plans will lead to ‘wholesale’ transfer of wealth from creative industries to tech sectorUK politics live – latest updatesA consultation on changes to UK copyright law is “fixed” in favour of artificial intelligence companies and will lead to a “wholesale” transfer... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2025-02-11 11:27:11 UTC ]
The Association of American Publishers, under the auspices of the International Publishers Association, is among 38 international organizations that have released a joint statement calling for oversight and regulation of artificial intelligence development, especially in regard to respect for... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-02-10 05:00:00 UTC ]
The way our legal system approaches issues of intellectual property must change to meet the novel questions posed by new technology, argues publishing industry analyst Christopher Kenneally. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2025-01-14 05:00:00 UTC ]
Officials at the nonprofit have decided against exercising their last option, an appeal to the Supreme Court, ending the closely-watched case over the scanning and lending of library books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-12-05 05:00:00 UTC ]
Artificial intelligence makers have faced a mountain of criticism for borrowing from the work of others to train its models. Now the world’s largest publishing house is taking steps to ensure its authors don’t have their work plagiarized in the name of progress. The Bookseller reports that... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-10-18 21:04:36 UTC ]
An appeals court has upheld an earlier finding that the online Internet Archive violated copyright law by scanning and sharing digital books without the publishers’ permission Continue reading >> [ Source: ABC News | 2024-09-04 21:58:00 UTC ]
The Internet Archive is starting to run out of legal options. Wired reports that the non-profit internet cataloguer of videos, games and books lost its appeal in the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The court rejected Archive.org’s claim in its ongoing lawsuit with several high... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-09-04 20:24:53 UTC ]
Hachette v. Internet Archive was brought by book publishers objecting to the archive’s digital lending library. Continue reading >> [ Source: Wired | 2024-09-04 17:55:16 UTC ]
The complaint accuses Anthropic of using a dataset dubbed “the Pile,” which allegedly includes a trove of pirated works, to develop its Claude AI product. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-20 04:00:00 UTC ]
From “AI-generated musical performances to robocall impersonations of political candidates to images in pornographic videos,” the report acknowledges that “a new era of sophisticated digital replicas has arrived.” Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-08-01 04:00:00 UTC ]
While the court clearly appeared skeptical of the Internet Archive's arguments, the panel was deeply engaged and well-prepared, peppering both sides with a wide array of questions. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-06-28 04:00:00 UTC ]
The briefs are the latest development in the long-running copyright infringement case, following the publishers' opening appeal brief filed earlier this month, and comes nearly one year after judge John G. Koeltl unequivocally found the scanning and lending of print library books to be copyright... Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-25 04:00:00 UTC ]
Nearly one year after district court judge John G. Koeltl found the IA's scanning and lending of library books to be copyright infringement, the publisher plaintiffs are asking an appeals court to affirm the decision. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2024-03-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
It's getting hard to keep up with copyright lawsuits against generative AI, with a new proposed class action hitting the courts last week. This time, authors are suing NVIDIA over its AI platform NeMo, a language model that allows businesses to create and train their own chatbots, Ars Technica... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-03-12 08:34:07 UTC ]
The Publishers Association of South Africa calls on president Ramaphosa 'not to sign' the 'Copyright Amendment Act.' The post South Africa: Publishers Join Statement on Copyright Act appeared first on Publishing Perspectives. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishing Perspectives | 2024-03-06 21:10:29 UTC ]