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I attended the IPG Autumn Conference in London yesterday, and while it is still fresh in the mind, I wanted to write up some thoughts from the sessions I went to as a way of identifying the big themes of the day: international sales, productivity and AI.

The themes of this week’s newsletter are copyright and money: the Department of Justice weighed in behind OpenAI in its copyright litigation with the New York Times, and a similar interpretation of Fair Use sits behind a new academic initiative.

I spend a lot of time talking to groups of people in companies, trade associations and training cohorts about their use of artificial intelligence.

This week’s AI news include developments in Hollywood, the news media, and professional publishing—all of which pose questions for publishing as a whole—alongside practical new features from OpenAI, Google and Adobe that would be useful to a broad range of

Welcome back.

This article was originally posted on the morning of 14 August and linked to in my newsletter at lunchtime, UK time that day.

Happy Friday.

Last August, I published a piece of research on the size and scope of the UK book and journal publishing industry.

It’s been a quiet week for AI in publishing, though the authenticity questions I wrote about last week are rumbling on.

With a book coming out later this year and (at the time of writing) nearly 100,000 words of posts and newsletters on this website, I am getting asked more regularly about my own AI use.