The Authors Guild has added a new clause to its model trade book contract that prohibits publishers from “using or sublicensing books under contract to train artificial intelligence technologies.” The clause is a response to recent concerns raised by authors and publishers regarding digital publishers like Findaway Voices and Bookwire, who have partnered with Apple for machine learning and Google Books for AI-narrated audiobooks, respectively. The AG writes that platforms and publishers have been “adding language to their terms that allows them to data mine books for use in training AI models that will inevitably compete with human-authored works.” The […]
