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A Tumultuous Week at the Library of Congress

Changes in Library of Congress leadership could have profound impacts on copyright and intellectual freedom.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • May 15, 2025
  • 5 Comments

Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust: The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Issues Guidance on AI

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).

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Apr 28, 2025
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — The Open Access – AI Conundrum: Does Free to Read Mean Free to Train?

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.

  • By Stephanie Decker
  • Apr 15, 2025
  • 15 Comments

We Could Use a Model Licensing Framework for Scholarly Content Use in AI Tools

Model licenses simplified library licenses in the 2000s. The same approach can streamline licensing scholarly content for AI training today.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Feb 26, 2025
  • 3 Comments

Copyright’s Big Win in the First Decided US Artificial Intelligence Case

The first AI training case has been decided in the US in favor of the copyright holder.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Feb 20, 2025
  • 3 Comments

AI Rights Reservation: Human Readable is Machine Readable — An Interview with Haralambos (“Babis”) Marmanis

“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.”

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Feb 17, 2025
  • 2 Comments

AI and Content — The 2024 Trend that Wasn’t and the Related Opportunity that Exists

As a result of EU law and other factors, rights holders are reserving their AI rights. This material is available for AI training/licensing.

  • By Andrew Campana, Roy Kaufman
  • Jan 9, 2025
  • 7 Comments

A Dissonance of Ideals: Openness, Copyright, and AI

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).

  • By Robert Harington
  • Nov 25, 2024
  • 5 Comments

Guest Post: Supply Chain of Writing Fools

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.

  • By Janet Salmons
  • Nov 20, 2024
  • 13 Comments

Guest Post:  This Open Access Week Theme Has a Distinguished History

Some thoughts on this year’s Open Access Week theme, “community over commercialization.”

  • By Mark Hooper
  • Oct 22, 2024
  • 0 Comments

Tracking the Licensing of Scholarly Content to LLMs

We have developed a tool to track publisher deals to license scholarly content for use as training data by LLMs

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Oct 15, 2024
  • 9 Comments

Lessons Learned from a Fair Use Defeat

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.

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Sep 30, 2024
  • 10 Comments

Ensuring attribution is critical when licensing content to AI developers

Publishers should support scholarly authors by requiring license deals with AI developers include attribution in their outputs.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Sep 4, 2024
  • 6 Comments

The Interplay Between Copyright Licensing and Exclusive Rights; AI Edition

In copyright law, the existence of licensing options impacts upon a rights owners exclusive rights.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • May 14, 2024
  • 0 Comments

Kitchen Essentials: An Interview with Tracey Armstrong of CCC

In today’s Kitchen Essentials interview, Roger Schonfeld speaks with Tracey Armstrong of CCC, the information solutions provider to organizations around the world. 

  • By Roger C. Schonfeld
  • Apr 3, 2024
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