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Archives: Copyright

Roman Numeral Error Shaved Ten Years Off A Movie’s Copyright

Best double check those Roman numerals in your copyright notice…

  • By David Crotty
  • Mar 17, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Some Thoughts on Five Pending AI Litigations — Avoiding Squirrels and Other AI Distractions

Five pending cases may set new ground rules for use of training materials for AI. Here is what to watch.

  • By Roy Kaufman
  • Mar 7, 2023
  • 4 Comments

Thinking About ChatGPT and the Future — Where Are We On AI’s Development Curve?

A compilation of links and a video to incisive analyses of ChatGPT and what it means for the future.

  • By David Crotty
  • Feb 17, 2023
  • 2 Comments

Guest Post — Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA) and Elsevier Conclude Negotiations for Access to ScienceDirect Journals

Ginger Williams and Posie Aagaard offer a look at the Texas Library Coalition and its new deal with Elsevier.

  • By Ginger Williams, Posie Aagaard
  • Jan 12, 2023
  • 0 Comments

Q: Can You Revoke a Creative Commons License? A: No. Er… Sort Of? Maybe?

A Creative Commons license is irrevocable; it says so right in the license. But it also says you can change your mind and distribute the work differently, or not at all. What does this mean?

  • By Rick Anderson
  • May 11, 2022
  • 16 Comments

Subscribe to Open (S2O): An Interview Post in Two Parts (Part 2)

Robert Harington interviews a number of experts with a few burning questions on the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model in a two part post, part two appearing here.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 29, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Subscribe to Open (S2O): An Interview Post in Two Parts (Part 1)

Robert Harington interviews a number of experts with a few burning questions on the Subscribe to Open (S2O) model in a two part post, part one appearing here:

  • By Robert Harington
  • Jul 28, 2021
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Why the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy Probably Won’t Work

Shaun Khoo discusses the legal quandaries created by the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy (RRS).

  • By Shaun Khoo
  • Jul 27, 2021
  • 9 Comments

Happy Birthday to the eBook!

On July 4, 1971 Michael Hart posted the first ebook file on the ARPANET and transformed content distribution.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jul 13, 2021
  • 1 Comment

Article Sharing Framework: Facilitating Scholarly Sharing Through Metadata

The STM Association released an Article Sharing Framework to facilitate use of scholarly collaboration networks in compliance with new EU Copyright Directive.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • May 17, 2021
  • 8 Comments

NFT Technology versus Subscriptions – The Battle for Ownership of Digital Content

NFTs are the next phase in the ongoing tension between forces supporting subscriptions and those supporting ownership of content

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 22, 2021
  • 7 Comments

Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part Two

Robert Harington talks to a range of expert stakeholders with differing views about the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy and Creative Commons Licensing. Part 2. of 2 interview posts.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 19, 2021
  • 10 Comments

Plan S Rights Retention Strategy, Copyright and the Academic Community – Part One

Robert Harington talks to a range of expert stakeholders with differing views about the Plan S Rights Retention Strategy and Creative Commons Licensing. Part 1 of 2 interview posts.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Feb 18, 2021
  • 3 Comments

Copyright, Creative Commons, and Confusion

In this article, Robert Harington revisits the history of copyright, steering into Creative Commons Licensing, and weighs the value of protection and reuse in light of an inexorable push towards global openness.

  • By Robert Harington
  • Apr 20, 2020
  • 8 Comments

If My AI Wrote this Post, Could I Own the Copyright?

Todd Carpenter reports on a forum hosted by WIPO and the Copyright Office that focused on whether copyright can apply to the works created by artificial intelligence systems.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Feb 12, 2020
  • 9 Comments
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