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Archives: content licensing

Guest Post — AI Isn’t Going to Pay for Content … At Least Not How You’re Hoping It Will

Today’s guest post is the first in a two-part series — we begin by facing up to the fact that AI will not become the content windfall the way many in the publishing industry hope.

  • By Jonathan Woahn
  • Jan 21, 2026
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 7 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 3 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

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