Category: IP Rights
PARIX IA: The Largest AI-Related Event for Spanish-Language Publishing Markets. Time To Leave The Luddites In The Dust!
Watching the global AI scene evolve, it’s clear that many publishers and authors in the US, and even more in the UK, blindly fixating on these issues and unable/unwilling to see the bigger picture thanks to a handful of Luddite influencers, stand to be left behind as AI-assisted publishing moves forward without them.
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AI and RROs – we’ll profit more if we move with the times
As the pendulum slowly swings from the knee-jerk AI-is-evil non-think camp to nuanced evaluations of what benefits AI brings to the industry table, Charkin offers a road map to find the road out of Ludditeland.
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Landmark AI copyright ruling in China sets example for world to follow
The Beijing court has done the world a favour. Creatives who wish to use new technology to be even more creative can, in China at least, do so knowing their efforts will have protection.
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If only western countries had this kind of govt. support to fight book piracy!
Many publishing professionals in the “civilised west” regard far-flung parts of the...
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Kay Thompson’s "Eloise" IP sold for film, TV and stage adaptations 65 years after first publication. A reminder of the enduring power of publishing’s backlist
First published by Simon & Schuster in 1955, the Eloise books have sold more than 15 million...
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“Digital publishing is the future, and we seek to embrace it wholeheartedly” – 2020 Abu Dhabi Int. Book Fair adds digital and audio to its Spotlight On Rights programme
If 2019 has been a year of powerful developments in the Arab publishing world, the new decade...
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“Extraordinary growth” in 2018 Italian rights exports as Italy’s book market expands despite "national reading emergency."
Italy’s book market in 2018 was worth 3.17 billion euros ($3.5 billion), up 2.1% on 2017, which in...
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StreetLib and Nakiri expand their Global Rights & Distribution Partnership
StreetLib is the publisher behind The New Publishing Standard. While TNPS is not a...
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