Category: AI
US Head of Copyright Fired. Just How Close Are We to a Trump Executive Order Declaring Fair Use for AI Companies?
The dismissal of the head of US copyright amid high-profile legal cases and potential executive interventions, rams home the urgent need for a measured, strategic response. Forget the soundbites and the posturing. This is serious.
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Iceland’s Storytel Dispute: A Clash of Values
“Literature and art are created exclusively by artists and not machines,” says the IWA, seemingly completely ignorant of the history of global literature, where technology has augmented – not replaced – human creativity.
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UAE Embraces AI: How the Abu Dhabi Arabic Language Centre is Revolutionising Arabic Content
This growth was supported by the release of over 2,000 digital knowledge resources and – don’t tell the Luddite Fringe – AI-powered audiobooks, reinforcing the Centre’s commitment to digitising Arabic literature.
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The UAE Makes AI a Compulsory Subject, Starting from Day One of Kindergarten – Implications for Publishing Part 1: Compressed Innovation
“The integration of AI in early education is poised to transform every aspect of learning – from the classroom to the printed page.”
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Two Roads Diverged in the AI Woods: American Pragmatism vs. British Bluster
So the AAP presented the court with a series of existing (AI publishing) deals – over 65 examples, collectively valued at $2.5 billion, with projections soaring to $30 billion over the next decade.
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STM is among the latest to file an amicus brief in the Kadrey v. Meta copyright lawsuit
Until such time as the legal position is settled by a Judge in each case, the emotive use of terms like theft and purloined and stolen remain subjective accusations, not statements of proven fact.
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The Em Dash: An AI Give-Away or Graceful Punctuation? Or, Is TNPS Written With AI, Redux
Can the use of AI ever be anything other than an extension of a writer’s own talent? And if the quality endures, should the provenance matter at all?
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Publishing Advisory: Argentina’s Buenos Aries International Book Fair Professional Conferences – Two Not To Miss
In the US, writers orgs have moved to meet AI midway, pragmatically recognising issues like copyright and compensation but also recognising the genuine opportunities AI offers writers. In the UK the language is incendiary.
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Gor Blimey, Guv’nor! Google Gemini ‘as ownly gone’n train’d its AI on Mary bloody Poppins! (Not an April 1 prank, sadly)
Most AIs know their centre from their center and their colour from their color, although when will they grasp it’s uncivilised to say civilized!
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Human: Good. AI: Bad. Perception, Prejudice, and the Creative Landscape in the Age of AI
AI-produced audio slammed for its low quality was actually created by humans. Luddite Fringe, look away now!
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Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic in the News, but the Existential Threat Looming Over Publishing is the Trump Executive Order
Be careful what we wish for. The possibility of an executive order granting broad exemptions to AI companies from copyright claims poses an existential threat to the publishing industries as they currently operate.
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Taylor & Francis To Use AI For Translation. Society of Authors Gets Self-Righteous Again. Philip Pullam Was Spot On
Needless to say the SoA was like a lamb with two tails as it gleefully revelled in the Meta piracy site news.
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