The Bookseller’s Post

Penguin Random House is adding a warning to its books’ copyright pages to prevent them from being used to train AI models. The statement, added to new and reprinted books, prohibits reproducing any part of the books for AI training purposes. This makes Penguin Random House the first major publisher to address AI concerns on copyright pages, though the company is not entirely opposed to AI. They plan to use AI tools selectively, while strongly defending their authors' intellectual property. Subscribe to our Newsletter Plugaiinc.com #AIandCopyright #PenguinRandomHouse #Publishing #AITraining #IntellectualProperty

Publishers Weekly writes "Authors Guild Reinforces Its Position on AI Licensing - As the debates and discussions over all matters of rights pertaining to AI move forward, the Authors Guild has issued a lengthy statement that reiterated the organization's position that it is authors who control the rights to their work." https://lnkd.in/egaDQQSs. #authorsguild #artificialintelligence #licensing #trainingdata #publishersweekly

Book publisher Penguin Random House is putting language in new books and reprints to prohibit AI being trained by them. Is this in vain? As the first major publisher to add this type of language to their copyright pages, it’s a proactive approach to protecting their writers IP in modern times. Not sure how this demand will be honored by AI models. Perhaps if other publishers continue this trend mounting pressure will require AI governance departments to comply. What are your thoughts? https://lnkd.in/gdWwZU8s #AI #AIethics #ResponsibleAI #deidrewrite #publishing

"AI firms often trawl or "scrape" sources like fiction and non-fiction books, newspapers, and social media to train their AI models, which has already caused plenty of legal controversies. Alongside Simon & Schuster, Hachette, HarperCollins, and Macmillan Publishers, Penguin Random House is considered one of the "Big Five" English language publishers, controlling 80% of the US book trade as of 2022. Penguin has amended the copyright wording on all its titles worldwide and across all its imprints. It now reads: "No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner to train artificial intelligence technologies or systems." According to The Bookseller, the new wording will appear on all its new titles and any reprinted old titles."

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My colleagues, Andrew Campana and Roy Kaufman, at Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) have written a compelling piece on the reality of AI training data and the recent "trend" that wasn't. They debunk the idea of disappearing data and discuss the opportunity for collaboration between content creators and the AI industry. Check it out at the Scholarly Kitchen. https://lnkd.in/gd6q8pJJ #AI #ContentLicensing #Copyright #ScholarlyPublishing

Unless your context window is already full, you might be interested in the latest issue of the Transatlantic Law Journal (TLJ), which features a special focus on Artificial Intelligence, including a variety of intriguing articles. Among these is "Of Books and Bytes: The Copyright Dilemma in AI Development," co-authored by my colleague Christopher Noll and myself (of course, it is for you to decide whether it fulfils the "intriguing" criterion). It is also available on Beck-Online, so no excuse not to check it out.   We delve into the conditions under which AI companies are permitted to use data for training their models under European law. The article offers an overview of the current state of European regulations and the specific German national legislation pertaining to this matter, as well as presenting some alternatives and perspectives for the future.   The tl;dr? Yes, you can lawfully use copyrighted material for training purposes, but it's messy. (Oh, and if you're curious about whether the article was in fact authored by an AI, you'll never know.) #AI #Copyright #Data #TLJ

HarperCollins Offers Authors $2,500 to License Books for AI Training: A New Deal or Copyright Controversy? As the debate over AI's impact on creative industries intensifies, Harper Collins takes a bold step—offering authors the chance to license their works for AI training, but only if they opt-in. 🔵 HarperCollins partners with an AI firm to use nonfiction titles for model training. 🔵Authors can opt-in and receive $2,500 for a three-year license. 🔵 Some authors sue AI companies for using their works without permission. 🔵HarperCollins emphasizes author choice and protection of revenue streams. For more details, read the full article on The Verge.(link in the comment section) #AI #Authors #HarperCollins #Copyright #BookPublishing #ArtificialIntelligence #AITraining #CreativeRights Stay updated! Follow Emly Labs

🔍 European Court hears pivotal case on using copyrighted works for AI training. Outcome hinging on machine readability of opt-outs, posing challenges for both creators and developers. Urgent need for consensus on standards. #AI #CopyrightLaw #MachineLearning #EUDirective

Our study on the impact of Share Alike/CopyLeft (SA/LA) licensing on machine learning and generative AI written by Kacper Szkalej and Martin Senftleben from the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam has been published in the SSRN repository. You can access it here 👉 https://lnkd.in/diK2JV5A #MachineLearning #genAI #CreativeCommons #CopyLeft