A Tumultuous Week at the Library of Congress
Changes in Library of Congress leadership could have profound impacts on copyright and intellectual freedom.
Changes in Library of Congress leadership could have profound impacts on copyright and intellectual freedom.
We are expecting the US Government’s AI Action Plan to be issued over the summer. In the meantime, we may glean some of the administration’s views by looking at recently issued information from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
It is time for OA proponents to engage in public debate with academic associations, universities and national funding agencies, because the widespread use of academic content in AI models poses significant risks for the research ecosystem.
Model licenses simplified library licenses in the 2000s. The same approach can streamline licensing scholarly content for AI training today.
The first AI training case has been decided in the US in favor of the copyright holder.
“Rights reservation language, whether in plain English, included in terms, or coded into, e.g., metadata, is “machine readable.” It is a choice by an AI developer to not read “human readable” rights reservation language.”
As a result of EU law and other factors, rights holders are reserving their AI rights. This material is available for AI training/licensing.
Robert Harington attempts to reveal inherent conflicts in our drive to be as open as possible, authors’ need to understand their rights, and a library’s mandate to provide their patrons with the enhanced discovery that comes with AI’s large language models (LLMs).
While Aretha Franklin’s “Chain of Fools” referred to betrayal of trust in love, when it comes to AI use of our work, writers feel betrayed by those who should be protecting our intellectual and creative property.
Some thoughts on this year’s Open Access Week theme, “community over commercialization.”
We have developed a tool to track publisher deals to license scholarly content for use as training data by LLMs
Several weeks ago, the Internet Archive lost its appeal of the lawsuit brought by a group of publishers opposed to its controlled digital lending programs. Roger Schonfeld examines what can be learned from this fair use defeat.
Publishers should support scholarly authors by requiring license deals with AI developers include attribution in their outputs.
In copyright law, the existence of licensing options impacts upon a rights owners exclusive rights.
In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Tracey Armstrong of CCC, the information solutions provider to organizations around the world.