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Catriona MacLeod Stevenson (Publishers Association, UK) and Lui Simpson (AAP, USA) succeed Jessica Sänger (Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Germany) as co-chairs of the International Publishers Association’s Copyright Committee.  The IPA Copyright Committee is the association’s main body dealing with copyright policy issues, facilitating the exchange of information on local developments between IPA members as well…

The AI Opportunities Action Plan, led by Matt Clifford CBE, was published this morning [13 January].

The Westminster Book Awards presented by the Booksellers Association and the Publishers Association (formerly known as the Parliamentary Book Awards) has announced this year’s shortlists. Now in their ninth year, the awards recognise excellent political writing across three categories: Best Non-Fiction or Fiction by a Parliamentarian, Best Biography by a Parliamentarian and Best Political Book by a Non-Parliamentarian.

The High Court has granted an application brought by the Publishers Association requiring the UK’s main Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block access to a collection of websites that provide unlawful access to books and journals.

The Audio Publishers Group (part of the UK Publishers Association) and the Audio Publishers Association have collaborated to create international guidelines on how to label AI narrated audiobooks. At present, various terms for different kinds of AI narration are being used interchangeably in the marketplace, which leads to confusion among publishers, retailers and consumers. The…