#Publishers

“Myst” sold over 6 million copies in the ’90s. Its latest spinoff couldn’t shore up any funding, pointing to an existential crisis among double-A games.

A common thread among many new Google features is how they enable publishers to build loyal audiences across all Google surfaces.

Reuters and Time now block AI bots by default, allowing only approved crawlers through allowlists, as more publishers add friction to AI content scraping.

Digital Content Next sent Common Crawl a cease and desist letter demanding it stop scraping publisher content and remove protected material from its datasets.

Google tests AI visibility reports and an opt-out toggle as the UK requires new publisher controls for AI search features.

The UK's CMA has imposed a new conduct requirement on Google Search, letting publishers opt out of AI features and requiring clearer content attribution.

Authors, agents, publishers: every part of the industry is seeing the strain of five years of escalating anti-LGBTQ censorship.

Embracer Group have said they'll be "more actively" exploring licensing out series like Deus Ex, Saints Row and TimeSplitters to external partners.

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: A bill focused on maintaining long-term playable access to online games has passed out of the California Assembly's appropriations committee, setting up a floor vote by the full legislative body.…

From Columbia Journalism Review: AI Agents Are Coming for News. Can Publishers Reclaim Control?

The Court of Justice has ruled that Italy’s AGCOM can require Meta to pay publishers for news snippets, the first time the bloc’s top court has weighed in directly.…

Last week was fiction heavy, and today we have a slew of the other side of the coin: many nonfiction riches await. Isaac Fitzerald’s study of Johnny Appleseed is available, as well as Barry W…

Science publishing giant Elsevier has joined a class action lawsuit against Meta that alleges the reproduction of copyrighted works in developing the Llama AI model.…

A Wall Street analyst wants Rockstar’s biggest game ever to reset what “fair” pricing means for GTA 6, Mario Kart, and every $70 blockbuster that follows.

Charli XCX and Jamie Oliver are among the high-profile Brits currently using Substack, as the platform reveals exclusive new data about its second-largest market to The Hollywood Reporter.

Ad fraud and malvertising are ongoing problems in digital advertising, and honestly, there’s no such...

From Deadline RSS Feed: Publishers & Author Scott Turow Sue Meta Over Use Of Copyrighted Works To Train AI Models

Hachette, Macmillan and others allege that Meta pirated millions of works from textbooks to novels for Llama model

From Kotaku RSS Feed: After Months Of Legal Turmoil, Subnautica 2′s Early Access Has A Launch Date, And It’s Super-Soon

As numerous posts on this blog have emphasised, the underlying idea of open access (OA) – allowing anyone to read and share published academic research for free – is great in principle, b…