D2D releases its stance on AI rights licensing!
A while back, I wrote about a Draft2Digital (D2D) poll I was sent as an author who publishes through that platform. The poll meant to gauge what the independent authors who publish through D2D thought about licensing book rights to train AI.
Until Draft2Digital sees significant reforms, especially around greater contractual protections and transparency governing use, intellectual property protections, and rights restrictions, we will not offer rights licensing opportunities. —Kris Austin, CEO of Draft2Digital
The blog post also goes into detail about the results of the survey and went on to say something I'm not surprised by at all:
The survey found deep mistrust of AI in general and Big Tech AI developers in particular.
AI developers earned this mistrust. —Kris Austin
I strongly encourage you to read the blog post with the results, which I wish I could say are fascinating. However, as someone deeply involved in the author community, I can't say I'm surprised that more than 50% of the authors who participated in the poll would not consider selling their AI training rights. I'm one of those. I don't want AI creating books off my (admittedly poor) writing. Leave the writing and the creating to the artists, be they authors, illustrators, or designers. I know I won't be spending a single cent on purchasing an AI-created book.
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