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Wiley set to earn $44m from AI rights deals, ‘no opt-out’ for authors

The Bookseller: “Academic publisher Wiley has revealed it is set to make $44 million (£33 million) from Artificial Intelligence (AI) partnerships that it is not giving authors the opportunity to opt-out from.  The US publisher is the latest to capitalise on deals to give tech firms access to its authors’ content to train their Large Language Models (LLMs).   Wiley has already earned $23 million from AI deals and confirmed to The Bookseller that it is set to make a further $21m this financial year. A spokesperson confirmed that Wiley authors are set to receive remuneration for the licensing of their work based on their “contractual terms”.  In July, authors hit out another academic publisher, Taylor & Francis, the parent company of Routledge, over an AI deal with Microsoft worth $10 million, claiming they were not given the opportunity to opt out and are receiving no extra payment for the use of their research by the tech company. T&F later confirmed it was set to make $75 million from two AI partnership deals. The Bookseller asked Wiley about opt-outs should authors not want their work used to train AI chatbots. The firm confirmed it offered “no specific opt-out for authors on these licensing agreements” should they not wish to participate.”

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