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Publishers, authors, has your book been used to train an AI model without your permission?

Go to see if your book was used to train a large language model. https://github.com/psmedia/Books3Info

The problem is not the power of the AI, it’s the power of our brains

With the coming of generative AI, it’s our own super-powers that will be the source of the problem.

Good AIs copy, great AIs steal

Trying to untangle the copyright status of foundation models. I presented this paper in mid-October 2022 at the annual conference of the Asian Pacific Copyright Association.

Singapore

Displacing Singapore

An essay on Singapore’s landscape, originally published to accompany a volume of photographs by Lucas Jodogne. The past continually makes way for a future that has no time to ripen into a present. And the citizens never imagine the city that awaits at the end of all that labor.

PubTech

Foundation models and copyright

I’ve recently started a newsletter — imaginatively titled AI and Copyright, with the goal of tracking the shifting legal picture around the copyright status of the Foundation Models, including the Large Language Models

arts

modern Buddhist murals

The murals of Isipathanaramaya temple in Colombo, Sri Lanka, tell a story of some of the conflicts that arose in modernisation of Asian art, particularly in the meeting of high art and the popular.

public art

PSMedia.Asia/publicartsg

The latest iteration of the database of public art in Singapore, has some 174 entries, including for 24 works now removed from public spaces or destroyed.

PubTech

Singapore's national AI strategy takes aim at curriculum

Singapore has just announced its national AI strategy, comprising a series of ecosystem-strengthening moves, and major national projects in five key areas, one of which is right in the book publishing wheelhouse: education.

public art

the Merlion and other monsters

The Merlion is a monster, according to the oldest dictionary meaning of the word, a “mythical creature which is part animal and part human, or combines elements of two or more animal forms.” As a symbol, the Merlion actually has rather ancient roots...

Film Festivals

The 55th Golden Horse Awards

Lee Chor Lin guest posts: your guide to the nuance at the 55th Golden Horse Awards ceremony

Publishing in Singapore

Five Myths about Book Publishing

What is the role of book publishing in Singapore's media ecosystem? Why do I think the industry will become even more important in years ahead?

Publishing in Singapore

50 Years of the Singapore Book Publishers' Association

We celebrated 50 Years of the Singapore Book Publishers Association in an event held at the Chamber, Arts House, Singapore on September 21, 2018. it was a great chance to celebrate past, present and future of the industry.

Publishing in Singapore

Digital Publishing in Singapore: introduction & context

“We still call it a ‘book’ fair…”, said the representative of the Frankfurt Book Fair to a recent meeting of publishers in the region....

Publishing in Singapore

Digital Publishing in Singapore, ii

Singapore’s publishers have been operating digital businesses for decades...

Publishing in Singapore

Digital Publishing in Singapore, iii

Singapore’s publishing industry benefitted from the wave of digital technologies that started to become important in publishing in the 1980s. The picture is more complicated today...

bookselling

Kinokuniya Celebrating 30 Years in Singapore

Singapore has been quite central to Japanese bookseller Kinokuniya's effort to go global: their multilingual model was pioneered here.

Book Fairs

Why we should move the Frankfurt Bookfair to Cannes...

The trade book industry would benefit from a tighter linkage between the intellectual marketplace for determining quality, the marketplace for media attention, and the marketplace for buying and selling rights.

Publishing in Singapore

How Singapore regulates the book publishing industry

This was a draft section of a report on regulation of book publishing in Singapore. Written in 2012.

Book Fairs

Blogging the Mauritius Book Fair

The 10th Festival du Livres in Mauritius is the only book fair I know that's always held out-of-doors: the weather is so good on this Indian Ocean island (20° S) that the festival is held in tents on the Port Louis waterfront.

PubTech

How e-Book DRM could actually be a good thing: alternatives to Adobe, Amazon and Apple

How did publishers allow themselves to be at the mercy of the platform players when it comes to ebooks?

Publishing in Singapore

Singapore’s Peculiar Path to an E-Book Market

Singapore's e-book market, circa 2012