The publishing giant called on a recent EU directive that clarifies copyright holders' rights in the face of data usage by AI firms.

Penguin Random House (PRH), the largest of the Big Five publishing imprints, is pushing back against its published works being used to train AI. As first reported by The Bookseller, PRH has changed its copyright wording to target AI.

The copyright page on new books and reprints now says they can’t be used or reproduced ‘for the purpose of training artificial intelligence.’

AI (artificial intelligence) companies have faced a lot of criticism from artists, developers, companies and authors from across the globe for training their AI models on the copyrighted data. Now, one of the biggest publishing companies in the world,