About this website

This is the personal website of Peter Schoppert, reformed technopreneur, publisher and Director of NUS Press. Over the last year I find myself in demand as a public speaker and writer on Generative AI and its interactions with the publishing world. Recent appearances and invitations include:

  • October 2024 - a wonderful panel discussion at the STM conference held the day before the Frankfurt Book Fair
  • September 2024 - presentation to the Southeast Asian Cultural Heritage Alliance, held over Zoom
  • July 2024 - again joined the Italian Publishers Assocation to discuss a survey of licensing possibilities for AI
  • June 2024 - in a panel discussion with Prof Guilliame Lejoie as the plenary keynote of the Association of University Presses, Montréal, Canada
  • May 2024 - International Publishers Association webinar with Ben Zhao (of Nightshade fame) and Jessica Sänger
  • May 2024 - presentation at the World Expression Forum, Lillehammer, Norway, to discuss the impact of generative AI on freedom of expression
  • April 2024 - was invited to address the World Intellectual Property Organisation’s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, for their session on AI and copyright, the first time the topic made it onto the main agenda at this key international organisation
  • December 2023 - “Standards for Content Protection”, a webinar for the International Publishers Association, with Giulia Marangoni and Sebastian Posht
  • October 2023 - appearing on a panel at the regular Frankfurt Bookfair meetings of the Federation of European Publishers (FEP)
  • October 2023 - delivering a keynote to the annual meeting of the International Federation of Reproductive Rights Organizations, in Reykjavik, Iceland-
  • August 2023 - addressing the annual meeting of the Brazilian publishing industry, alas by Zoom…
  • May 2023 - webinar for International Publishers Association “From Books to AI and Back Again…?”

My writings on AI and its great copyright uncertainty can be found on my Substack.

But some other writings that don’t quite fit into that format, as well as notices of the latest issues can be found in the AI and Copyright section of this website.

This website combines some of my writing on art and related topics (once upon a time I was an active art writer), now I’m an enabler, ie publisher. I remain active in the Singapore Book Publishers Association, and you can find some of my writing on publishing here as well.

You can find out more about me on my Linked in Profile here