Publishers Prepare for Battle with Big Tech Over AI

Protection of copyright has always been a top priority for the Association of American PublishersThe national trade association of the American book publishing industry; AAP has more than 300 members, including most of the major commercial publishers in the United States, as well as smaller and non-profit publishers, university presses and scholarly societies, and that point was driven home again during the organization's annual meeting held via Zoom on May 8. With the exception of Jenna Bush Hager's opening remarks about her passion for reading-which led her to form the Read with Jenna book club, as well as the new Thousand Voices x RHPG imprint-the five other main speakers devoted their remarks on the need to defend copyright against Big Tech firms determined to use publishers' content to build their large language models without permission or payment.