Publishing analyst Carlo Carrenho kicks off the week with a review of the headlines from across the international publishing world.
Report Suggests Piracy Accounts for Nearly a Third of the Italian Book Market, with Mounting Concern Over AI
For the first time, this year’s survey addressed a new element of the piracy threat—the “difficult-to-quantify losses caused by the use of AI-generated summaries and condensations of books.”
Transatlantic Comments on the Anthropic AI Settlement
‘A clear win for rights holders with copyright registered in the United States,’ the Judge Approves the Anthropic settlement.
AAP Endorses the US$1.5 Billion AI Settlement Proposed in the ‘Bartz v. Anthropic’ Case
What’s called in court documents ‘the largest publicly reported copyright recovery in history’ has publishers’ and authors’ endorsements.
A Potential Settlement in the Anthropic AI-Training Lawsuit
‘Proliferating piracy’ and AI-training on copyrighted content: The AAP reports a possible settlement in the California case.
Copyright and Piracy: Publishers Coordinate on the Anthropic Lawsuit
In a fast-moving and potentially influential class action suit of AI developer Anthropic, the AAP supports publishers’ preparation.
Interview: Niels Famaey on Fighting Piracy in Belgium
The Flemish Publishers’ director says, ‘You cannot steal publications and use them for your own gain and commercial purposes.’
French Publishers Prevail Against Manga Pirate Site Japscan
Having helped take down the Z-Library pirate site, France’s SNE publishers now have a court ruling against Japscan.
UK Publishers and Cambridge Call Out Meta and Piracy in Generative AI Training
Statements from the UK Publishers Association and Cambridge University Press condemn Meta’s use of copyrighted content to train AI.
Copyright and Piracy in France: A Court Blocks Z-Library
French publishers, Syndicat national de l’édition has had a favorable ruling from the Paris Judicial Court, blocking access to a piracy site.