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Publishers Seek Safeguards over Suspected AI Book-Buying Spree

Summary by The Korea Times
Korean publishers are calling for stronger copyright protections and compensation as bulk book purchase requests suspected of being linked to artificial intelligence (AI) training raise concerns over intellectual property theft. Publishing groups are investigating suspicious orders and seeking a coordinated response. However, authors and publishers face a fundamental obstacle: they often cannot know for sure whether their books are being used to…

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There was an exclusive scoop that garnered significant attention both inside and outside the publishing industry throughout last weekend. It was the news that Antropic, the world's most successful AI company, had loaded hundreds of thousands of Korean books onto a ship and purchased them in their entirety for AI training.

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(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Jeong-eun = As movements to purchase large quantities of books suspected of being used for artificial intelligence (AI) training are being detected one after another both domestically and internationally, concerns in the domestic publishing industry...

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Tuesday, October 20, 2026.
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