If you record yourself reading a book, you own the audio recording copyright but it would be a copyright violation to reproduce that copy without a license for the underlying rights.

In this situation:

If the AI generates the audio recording of a book, no one owns the copyright of the audio recording but it would still be a copyright violation to reproduce that copy without the underlying rights.

Sony DADC presses every PlayStation games but also has spent decades manufacturing CDs, DVDs, Blu-rays, UHD Blu-rays, software, and other optical media for 3rd party customers across the entertainment and computer industry.

If PlayStation discs disappear in 2028, that removes one of the last massive, guaranteed sources of demand for optical disc production inside Sony. Even if the plants continue serving movies, music, and third-party clients for a while, it’s hard not to wonder if this announcement is also the beginning of the end for one of the last major end-to-end optical media manufacturers in the supply chain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Digital_Audio_Disc_Corpor...

https://www.sonydadc.com/productsandservices/manufacturing

Prices of food went up 1.5%, which covered half the wage increase, and the employers ate (pun intended) the other half of the cost.

Here is the study by UC Berkeley from this April

https://irle.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Effects...