The Financial Times has become the first major UK-based news publisher to announce a content licensing deal with ChatGPT owner OpenAI pressgazette.co.uk/news/financial…

🎉We’re delighted to announce that PLS distributed a record total of £43.8 million to publishers over 23/24.

📚That success highlights the importance of copyright & the value of voluntary collective licensing.

🤝We’d like to thank all our partners and mandating publishers.

World Book and Copyright Day is today! 🎉 📚 💡 📔 📖
As we join today's celebrations, we encourage you all to read UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳's Director-General, Ms Audrey Azoulay message to mark this very important date
unesco.org/en/days/world-…

Farewell to the best coffee shop in Westminster

Peter Cook reads a copy of Record Show Mirror (1960) by John Bulmer
#readingissexy

A podcast with a lot of highly topical subjects from #copyright to #AI and how Publishers' Licensing Services is looking to develop future licensing opportunities for publishers.

Have you all recovered from #LBF24 ? We would like to sincerely thank everyone who came to our stand and who we met during the Fair. We look forward to seeing you all again and meeting new contacts next year!

Good to see academic publishing highlighted as well as a nod to the breadth and economic importance of the industry.

It's #BritishScienceWeek !

UK universities are hubs of leading scientific research and innovation

Another highly enjoyable London Book Fair. A celebration of a diverse, vibrant, and far-reaching industry, and I still can’t quite believe I get to do this for a living. #LBF24

As London Book Fair begins, a welcome reminder of the incredible contribution UK publishing makes not only economically but tangibly across a range of different sectors. More reason, if it were needed, to protect copyright and ensure that UK publishing’s success continues.

It was great to join Chris Bryant and publishing colleagues for an excellent roundtable where we underlined the vital importance of the UK’s copyright framework and discussed the benefits of licensing and other industry issues.

Strong support for copyright and future creative industry careers as well as the benefits that independent publishing brings from Chris Bryant at IPG’s Spring Conference. #ipgsc

Creators are deeply concerned about the risks to their intellectual property and livelihoods from #AI .
Today I asked Department for Culture, Media and Sport Lucy Frazer to ensure our creativity is protected

📈'Creative Industries GVA grew faster than the UK economy both from 2021 to 2022 (9.8% vs 4.4%), and in the longer term from 2010 to 2022 (50.3% vs 21.5%).'

Long time no tweet!

But I wanted to shout to say I've recently gone freelance again👋

So if you/anyone you know is in need of an excellent reader/writer/copyeditor/proofreader then you know where to find me, my DMs are open or I can be reached at [email protected]📩

A memory to last a lifetime for six-year-old Samuel, thanks to James Maddison 🥹

.Publishers' Licensing Services is running The Introduction to Rights Seminar, featuring Lynette Owen and Diane Spivey, ahead of The London Book Fair, 11-13 March 2025

bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-d… (£)

New to publishing? Attending London Book Fair for the first time? Early bird tickets are still available for the Introduction to Rights seminar the day before #LBF24 kicks off!