The Publisher Podcast by Media Voices AI regulation, IP and copyright issues. What can be achieved – and what can’t? What are the risks and compromises?
Feb 16, 2026
Sajeeda Merali, CEO of the PPA, on publishers coordinating against bot scraping. Amir Malik, AI and digital transformation lead with media and Google experience, on marketplaces, commercial strategies and retraining risks. Tami Hoffman, Director of Public Policy at The Guardian, on regulation, copyright and balancing open access with protection. They discuss scraping, licensing frameworks, platform power and verifying human traffic.
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Use Legal Action To Defend Rights
- Back copyright claims with legal action when necessary to protect publisher rights.
- Tami Hoffman says publishers must stand up and be counted despite costs and slowness of court cases.
Create Friction Against Scrapers
- Create friction against scraping by deploying bot-mitigation tech and tactics.
- Sajeeda Merali urges publishers to capture scraping data and share it to strengthen industry lobbying.
News Value Lies In Timeliness
- The most valuable publisher output is timely news used to keep AI answers accurate and current.
- Tami Hoffman highlights a liability gap from unlicensed enterprise AI uses of publisher content.