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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
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Protecting Commercial AI Rights is Harder than You Think — EU Edition

Legislation often lags technological advances. The EU’s Digital Single Market Copyright Directive leaves many open questions regarding AI text- and data-mining.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Feb 1, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Guest Post — The Truth Is in There: The Library of Babel and Generative AI

The short story “The Library of Babel” by Jorge Luis Borges provides an opportunity to consider the veracity of AI-generated information.

  • By Isaac Wink
  • Jan 4, 2024
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 8 mins

The Year in Review: 2023 in The Scholarly Kitchen

Before we launch into 2024, a look back at 2023 in The Scholarly Kitchen.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jan 2, 2024
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 mins

Library Licensing Strategies

Libraries are accelerating engagement with transformative and pure publish agreements, balancing contract-based publishing support with an APC fund, and investing in the scholarly communications ecosystem.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Dec 19, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Guest Post — Food for Thought: What Are We Feeding LLMs, and How Will this Impact Humanity?

Academia has developed an amazing tree of knowledge which is arguably the most important data for Large Language Models to be trained on. Where does the scholarly communication community fit in?

  • By Stuart Leitch
  • Dec 11, 2023
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

Ask The Chefs: The US Executive Order on Artificial Intelligence

We asked the Chefs for their thoughts on the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence.”

  • By Roy Kaufman, Todd A Carpenter, Ann Michael
  • Dec 4, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 9 mins

The United States Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry on AI: A Quick Take

A selection of questions and answers from Copyright Clearance Center’s response to the United States Copyright Office “Artificial Intelligence and Copyright” request for comment.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Nov 28, 2023
  • 7 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

AI and Scholarly Societies

Robert Harington provides a template for scholarly societies wondering how to grapple with the overwhelming and omnipresent prospect of an AI future.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Oct 11, 2023
  • 1 Comment
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Libraries, Archives, Choice and Red Envelopes: The Growth of Streaming, the Decline of Choice, and the Death of the Red Envelope

The role of libraries and archives as streaming grows, choice declines, and the death of the red envelopes arrives.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 10, 2023
  • 3 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Appeals Court Rules That Library of Congress Can No Longer Require Deposit of Published Works

An appeals court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the government to require deposit of published works in the Library of Congress

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Sep 5, 2023
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

Will Building LLMs Become the New Revenue Driver for Academic Publishing?

Are scholarly publishers primed to become the critical content suppliers for the big Generative AI companies?

  • By Avi Staiman
  • Aug 8, 2023
  • 6 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

Who Is Going to Make Money from Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Communications?

The current uproar over artificial intelligence does not show us what the future of AI will look like, but rather how a human population falls into predictable patterns as it contemplates any new development: we are observing not AI but ourselves observing AI.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jul 12, 2023
  • 16 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say.

The copyright warning notice prescribed by the US Copyright Office misleads library patrons about their fair use rights, and must change.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Jul 5, 2023
  • 45 Comments
  • Time To Read: 6 mins

The Supreme Court Case of Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith: What, if Anything, Does it Mean to Artificial Intelligence?

The Supreme Court has ruled in the Andy Warhol–Prince fair use case. What does this mean for scholarly communications, and the reuse of materials for AI training?

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Jun 6, 2023
  • 2 Comments
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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