Minutes: Publishing Community Group Plenary: Protect and Defend Your Content in the Emerging AI Era

Dear Colleagues, here are the minutes for our last plenary on 2026-04-23
Protect and Defend Your Content in the Emerging AI Era
<https://w3c.github.io/publishingcg/Meetings/Minutes/2026-04-23-publishingcg.html>
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Here is a short resume:

Anna (1D345) presented an automated language analysis solution for the
scholarly publishing workflow, covering plagiarism, AI content detection,
paper mill markers, and future bibliography checks.
Titusz introduced ISCC, an ISO-standardised, vendor-neutral content code,
its Discovery Protocol, and a demo indexing 3 million book covers. He
showed how Amlet uses ISCC and the TDM Reservation Protocol to signal
content availability for text and data mining (including
translations/excerpts).
Sebastian reported on anti-counterfeiting, noting the rise of illegitimate
print/digital editions (republications, altered content) and stressing the
need for standard, interoperable ways to identify authoritative works and
track fraudulent ones.
Discussion highlighted that technical solutions exist (fingerprinting,
similarity detection, metadata analysis), but platforms lack incentives,
leaving enforcement to publishers.
The group emphasised the complementarity of publisher-side verification and
distribution-level monitoring, stressing the importance of collective
action to implement these tools and engage major platforms.

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*Gautier Chomel *
*Head of Accessibility **& Quality Management*
European Digital Reading Lab <http://www.edrlab.org/> | +33 6 77 32 96
98 | Schedule
short meeting <https://calendar.app.google/wDrEGetrh5JK2NH3A>


On Sun, 19 Apr 2026 at 12:19, Wolfgang Schindler (W3C Calendar) <
noreply+calendar@w3.org> wrote:

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> Publishing Community Group Plenary: Protect and Defend Your Content in the
> Emerging AI Era Upcoming Confirmed
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> 23 April 2026, 16:00 -17:00 Etc/UTC
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> Dear colleagues,
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> You are cordially invited to our Community Group plenary on *23 April at
> 16:00 UTC (18:00 CEST)* to discuss anti-counterfeit options for
> publishers.
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> We will host presentations of available services by
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>    -
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>    Anna Berthod (1D345 Compilatio - https://www.compilatio.net/),
>    -
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>    Giacomo D’Angelo (Amlet - https://amlet.ai/) and
>    -
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>    Sebastian Posth (Liccium - https://liccium.com)
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> and explore practical approaches to detection, response, and prevention.
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> We look forward to your participation!
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> Best regards,
> Gautier and Wolfgang
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