#publishers — Public Fediverse posts

ICYMI: Digital Content Next says Google must now deliver ad tech fixes it promised: Kint argues auction data, not display revenue, was the prize. Publishers wait 14 days for the sealed opinion and 30 for a joint judgment. Will it be enforced? https://ppc.land/digital-content-next-says-google-must-now-deliver-ad-tech-fixes-it-promised/ #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #GoogleAds #Publishers #AuctionData

ICYMI: Digital Content Next says Google must now deliver ad tech fixes it promised: Kint argues auction data, not display revenue, was the prize. Publishers wait 14 days for the sealed opinion and 30 for a joint judgment. Will it be enforced? https://ppc.land/digital-content-next-says-google-must-now-deliver-ad-tech-fixes-it-promised/ #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #GoogleAds #Publishers #AuctionData

ICYMI: Digital Content Next says Google must now deliver ad tech fixes it promised: Kint argues auction data, not display revenue, was the prize. Publishers wait 14 days for the sealed opinion and 30 for a joint judgment. Will it be enforced? https://ppc.land/digital-content-next-says-google-must-now-deliver-ad-tech-fixes-it-promised/ #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #GoogleAds #Publishers #AuctionData

ICYMI: Digital Content Next says Google must now deliver ad tech fixes it promised: Kint argues auction data, not display revenue, was the prize. Publishers wait 14 days for the sealed opinion and 30 for a joint judgment. Will it be enforced? https://ppc.land/digital-content-next-says-google-must-now-deliver-ad-tech-fixes-it-promised/ #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #GoogleAds #Publishers #AuctionData

ICYMI: Digital Content Next says Google must now deliver ad tech fixes it promised: Kint argues auction data, not display revenue, was the prize. Publishers wait 14 days for the sealed opinion and 30 for a joint judgment. Will it be enforced? https://ppc.land/digital-content-next-says-google-must-now-deliver-ad-tech-fixes-it-promised/ #DigitalMarketing #AdTech #GoogleAds #Publishers #AuctionData

Sunday, August 2, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/08/sunday-august-2-2026/

Monday, July 27, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/07/monday-july-27-2026/

As an #editor employed by 3 different #publishers in the 1980s & 1990s, I'm happy to learn that #employees of Univ. of Chicago Press & of Hachette Book Group voted to #unionize!🏆This is part of a #labor #movement across the #industry. https://lithub.com/both-university-of-chicago-press-and-hachette-book-group-have-voted-to-unionize/

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, but in practice has failed in important ways. That’s because traditional academic publishers have subverted the open access model to such an extent that the costs for research institutions of publishing in […]

FYI: Google AdSense to auto-enroll publishers in consent optimization: Google AdSense will auto-activate consent message optimization for EEA publishers on May 7, 2026, unless publishers opt out within the 30-day review window. https://ppc.land/google-adsense-to-auto-enroll-publishers-in-consent-optimization/ #GoogleAdSense #ConsentOptimization #Publishers #DigitalMarketing #EEA

FYI: Google AdSense to auto-enroll publishers in consent optimization: Google AdSense will auto-activate consent message optimization for EEA publishers on May 7, 2026, unless publishers opt out within the 30-day review window. https://ppc.land/google-adsense-to-auto-enroll-publishers-in-consent-optimization/ #GoogleAdSense #ConsentOptimization #Publishers #DigitalMarketing #EEA

FYI: Google AdSense to auto-enroll publishers in consent optimization: Google AdSense will auto-activate consent message optimization for EEA publishers on May 7, 2026, unless publishers opt out within the 30-day review window. https://ppc.land/google-adsense-to-auto-enroll-publishers-in-consent-optimization/ #GoogleAdSense #ConsentOptimization #Publishers #DigitalMarketing #EEA

FYI: Google AdSense to auto-enroll publishers in consent optimization: Google AdSense will auto-activate consent message optimization for EEA publishers on May 7, 2026, unless publishers opt out within the 30-day review window. https://ppc.land/google-adsense-to-auto-enroll-publishers-in-consent-optimization/ #GoogleAdSense #ConsentOptimization #Publishers #DigitalMarketing #EEA

ICYMI: Google AdSense to auto-enroll publishers in consent optimization: Google AdSense will auto-activate consent message optimization for EEA publishers on May 7, 2026, unless publishers opt out within the 30-day review window. https://ppc.land/google-adsense-to-auto-enroll-publishers-in-consent-optimization/ #GoogleAdSense #ConsentOptimization #Publishers #EEA #DigitalMarketing

ICYMI: Google AdSense to auto-enroll publishers in consent optimization: Google AdSense will auto-activate consent message optimization for EEA publishers on May 7, 2026, unless publishers opt out within the 30-day review window. https://ppc.land/google-adsense-to-auto-enroll-publishers-in-consent-optimization/ #GoogleAdSense #ConsentOptimization #Publishers #EEA #DigitalMarketing

ICYMI: Google AdSense to auto-enroll publishers in consent optimization: Google AdSense will auto-activate consent message optimization for EEA publishers on May 7, 2026, unless publishers opt out within the 30-day review window. https://ppc.land/google-adsense-to-auto-enroll-publishers-in-consent-optimization/ #GoogleAdSense #ConsentOptimization #Publishers #EEA #DigitalMarketing

ICYMI: Google AdSense to auto-enroll publishers in consent optimization: Google AdSense will auto-activate consent message optimization for EEA publishers on May 7, 2026, unless publishers opt out within the 30-day review window. https://ppc.land/google-adsense-to-auto-enroll-publishers-in-consent-optimization/ #GoogleAdSense #ConsentOptimization #Publishers #EEA #DigitalMarketing

TorrentFreak: Major Publishers Sue Anna’s Archive Over ‘Staggering’ Copyright Infringement, Seek Injunction. “A coalition of thirteen major publishers, including Penguin Random House, Elsevier, and HarperCollins, filed a new lawsuit against Anna’s Archive. The publishers allege the shadow library is facilitating “staggering” levels of piracy. While the site’s owners are not likely to […]

Walled Culture the book, three years on

Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) was launched just over three years ago. A few weeks afterwards, I talked with journalist and editor Maria Bustillos about the book and its background, as part of the Internet Archive’s Book Talk series. That interview has just been added to the Future Knowledge Podcast series in a shortened form, so this seems like a good moment to […]

#agcom #analogue #browsers #canada #cdn #collectiveLicensing #copyrightTerm #diamondOpenAccess #digital #digitalViolence #dns #ebooks #enforcement #eu #euCopyrightDirective #films #france #genai #generativeAi #germany #google #hostageWorks #humanRights #InternetArchive #interview #italy #levy #licensing #linkTax #MarrakeshTreaty #newspapers #openAccess #openai #piracyShield #podcast #portugal #publicDomain #publishers #routers #spain #streaming #tax #transparency #trueFans #tv #uk #uploadFilters #videoGames #vpn

https://walledculture.org/walled-culture-the-book-three-years-on/

The long road to Marrakesh: 40 years of copyright obstruction to human rights and social justice

One of the little-known but extremely telling episodes in the history of modern copyright, discussed in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available), concerns the Marrakesh Treaty. A post on the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) site from 2017 has a good summary of what the treaty is about, and why it is important:

It sets out exceptions and limits to copyright rules so that […]

#argentina #bangladesh #blind #brazil #canada #caterpillar #eu #germany #humanRights #ifla #implementation #jamesLove #kei #marrakeshTreaty #publishers #socialJustice #southAfrica #unesco #visuallyImpaired #wipo

https://walledculture.org/the-long-road-to-marrakesh-40-years-of-copyright-obstruction-to-human-rights-and-social-justice/

RSL is the missing layer for the AI era: set terms, get attribution, and get paid (per crawl or per inference). Open standard, collective leverage. If AI uses your work, it should respect your license. Time to take control.

https://hostvix.com/rsl-a-new-standard-to-make-ai-pay-for-the-content-it-consumes/

#RSL #ReallySimpleLicensing #AI #AIethics #AIsafety #AIdata #ContentRights #Licensing #OpenWeb #RobotsTxt #Publishers #Creators #Attribution #PayPerCrawl #PayPerInference #RSS #WebStandards #DigitalRights #CollectiveLicensing #Fastly

The #NIH just announced that it will "cap how much #publishers can charge NIH-supported scientists to make their research findings publicly accessible."
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-crack-down-excessive-publisher-fees-publicly-funded-research

We don't yet know the cap or how NIH will calculate or enforce it.

#APCs #DefendResearch #GoldOA #OpenAccess #ScholComm #Trump #TrumpVResearch #USPol #USPolitics

University of Michigan Press Announces Key #Accessibility Updates to the #Fulcrum Platform https://press.umich.edu/Blog/2025/06/University-of-Michigan-Press-Announces-Key-Accessibility-Updates-to-the-Fulcrum-Platform #publishers #scholcomm

#PenguinRandomHouse, #HarperCollins, #SimonAndSchuster, #HachetteBookGroup, #MacmillanPublishers, & all other US #publishers: Have you seen the open letter from #authors asking you to not #replace them & their #art with #AI? https://tinyurl.com/zpan8ndt

Update. "Protecting research from censorship: resources for scholarly publishers."
https://blog.scholasticahq.com/post/protecting-research-resources-for-scholarly-publishers/

"The onslaught of executive actions introduced over the past few months to impose significant funding cuts and workforce reductions on federal research agencies, take down public data, and prohibit the use of words related to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) has left many in the crosshairs grappling to wrap their heads around the implications of hastily issued government directives and policy changes. While there are still more unknowns than answers, initiatives are forming to track, assess, and help individuals and organizations respond to threats to research, including the Declaration To Defend Research Against US Government Censorship (#DefendResearch declaration), which #Scholastica has joined. We’ve developed this blog post to help scholarly publishers and editors stay abreast of guidance and initiatives pertinent to their operations and communities…We will update this post with new information as it becomes available."

#Censorship #Takedowns #Publishers #Trump #USPol #USPolitics

Wonderful! Anna Abalkina & the #RetractionWatch blog‬ have put together the Retraction Watch Hijacked Journal Checker. This will help #publishers and #authors who don't want legitimate, high-quality #research #articles ending up in #hijacked #journals. https://retractionwatch.com/the-retraction-watch-hijacked-journal-checker/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ak985WGOgGbJRJbZFanoktAN_UFeExpE/edit#gid=364865985

The Japan Fair Trade Commission announced Tuesday that it had issued a warning to publishing giant Kadokawa for unlawfully slashing payments to subcontractors. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/11/13/companies/kadokawa-underpricing-warning/ #business #companies #kadokawa #publishers #freelance #ftc #laborlaws

Another sign that gold open access was a mistake, and that diamond open access is the future

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the most influential funding bodies in the world. According to one ranking, it is the second largest charitable foundation, and as of 31 December 2023 had an endowment of around $75.2 billion. That makes a shift in its publishing policy hugely important.

An article in Chemical & Engineering […]

#apcs #coalitionS #diamondOa #funding #gatesFoundation #goldOa #peerReview #planS #preprints #publishers #unesco #verixiv

https://walledculture.org/another-sign-that-gold-open-access-was-a-mistake-and-that-diamond-open-access-is-the-future/

More evidence that some #publishers set #APCs based on #prestige & what they think the market will bear, not production #costs.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/neuroimage-elsevier-editorial-board-journal-profit/

"#Elsevier told editors that fees were based on a journal’s reputation —specifically, their #ImpactFactor. As the editors grew the journal’s prestige, Elsevier increased the publication fee by about 15%…Keilholz…concluded that the incentives for #ForProfit publishers were not aligned with 'what we want for science.' "

#NeuroImage

Big Four #publishers move to crush the #InternetArchive
On Monday four of the largest book publishers asked a New York court to grant #summaryjudgment in a #copyright #lawsuit seeking to shut down the Internet Archive's online #library and hold the #nonprofit organization liable for damages.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/20/internet_archive_lawsuit_latest/

"#VanessaBaraitser states “I've found that #Assange’s conduct is capable of amounting to an offence in the #UK. (…) I don't accept that the mere fact charges are brought in the US demonstrates (…) bad faith.”

This [seems to argue] that #JulianAssange’s actions (…) fall foul of (…) the UK’s #OfficialSecretsAct 1989, [criminalising #publishers] "who disclose protected, damaging materials and which they have disclosed knowing, or having reasonable cause to believe, would be #damaging”."

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