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Contracts, disputes, copyright and the rights that come with them.
The academic press joins Rockefeller University Press and Springer in routing its catalog through a licensing platform built to keep scholarly work out of LLM training sets while still supporting retrieval-augmented AI tools.
The Federal Trade Commission’s regulations targeting consumer and book review fraud carry penalties of up to $51,744 per violation for operations buying fake reviews.
New registration guidance clarifies the threshold of human authorship required for copyright registration when authors use AI writing assistants.
The writers advocacy organization argues before federal courts that unauthorized ingestion of copyrighted books for AI model training breaches fair use doctrine.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed that digitized scanning and distribution of copyrighted books without publisher licenses constitutes copyright infringement.
New European Union regulations mandate that AI developers disclose copyrighted training materials, supporting creator rights globally.
State lawmakers introduce legislation aimed at ensuring public libraries can license ebooks on fair, reasonable terms.
Regulatory scrutiny focuses on platform distribution agreements, agency pricing clauses, and digital marketplace competition.
Model agreements ensure voice actors retain consent and compensation rights when synthetic voice models are used in audiobook production.
New registration option simplifies copyright filing for web novelists and authors publishing serialized online chapters.
Regulatory review focuses on open access processing fees and bundled institutional journal subscription contracts.
Global publishing coalition calls for coordinated international law enforcement action against illegal shadow libraries.
Review Board upholds decision denying copyright registration to text generated entirely by AI prompts without human editing.
Annual advocacy study tracks book bans, catalog restrictions, and legal challenges to intellectual freedom in schools.
New collective licensing initiative aims to ensure authors are credited and compensated when their books train AI language models.
Court decision clarifies public domain and licensing rules for historical audiobooks and archival spoken-word recordings.
Authors union issues contract guidance advising writers against signing all-format rights grants for the full term of copyright.
Analysis of Author’s Guild v. Google examines how 20-year-old fair use rulings apply to generative AI model training datasets.