Penguin Random House underscores copyright protection in AI rebuff

Penguin Random House underscores copyright protection in AI rebuff

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© Shutterstock The world’s biggest trade publisher has changed the wording on its copyright pages to help protect authors’ intellectual property from being used to train large language models (LLMs) and other artificial intelligence (AI) tools, The Bookseller can exclusively reveal. Penguin Random House (PRH) has amended its copyright wording across all imprints globally, confirming it will appear “in imprint pages across our markets”. The new wording states: “No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner for the purpose of training artificial intelligence technologies or systems”, and will be included in all new titles and any backlist titles that are reprinted. The statement also “expressly reserves [the titles] from the text and data mining exception”, in accordance with a European Parliament directive. The move […]

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