TSRA version of Jane’s AI-generated image using prompt “book publishing executives receiving lots of money from a technology company.”
The following article condenses material that I’ve been writing about for the last 18 months in my paid newsletter, The Hot Sheet.
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The train has left the station, the ship has sailed, pick your preferred metaphor.
This week, the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) announced the ability for publishers and other rights holders to include AI training rights as part of licensing arrangements. In other words, they’re giving AI companies a one-stop shop for all their model training needs.
Update: An article in Publishers Weekly notes this licensing would be limited to internal use for licensees, which means it would not extend to public-facing models such as ChatGPT. However, it’s easy to see how the CCC is taking steps to position itself to offer something more extensive.
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I’ll be very interested in seeing what the EU legislators do with regard to copyright and AI.
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