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Guest Post — Challenges in Academic Publishing Amid War: ISSN Issues in Ukraine Threaten Research Integrity

Recently, a group of Ukrainian researchers uncovered serious violations in the use of ISSN identifiers by journals operating in temporarily occupied territories, revealing systematic misuse of academic infrastructure and promoting narratives hostile to Ukraine.

  • By Frances Pinter
  • Feb 25, 2025
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 5 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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
  • Time To Read: 4 mins

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
  • 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

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

Guest Post: Introducing SSP’s AI in Scholarly Publishing Community of Interest (CoIN)

Introducing the AI in Scholarly Publishing Community of Interest (CoIN), the SSP’s latest offering to all its members to explore and engage in all matters AI as they relate to scholarly publishing.

  • By Chhavi Chauhan, Chirag Jay Patel
  • Dec 15, 2023
  • 0 Comments
  • Time To Read: 3 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

Chefs Panel Discusses AI, Integrity and Open Content in Frankfurt

A report of the Chef’s panel on AI, Open content, and research integrity during the Frankfurt Book Fair.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Oct 24, 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

Finally Some Positive AI News: Elvis Meets Sir Mix-a-Lot

The AI takeover isn’t all doom and gloom. Finally, a long running musical question can be answered.

  • By David Crotty
  • Jul 14, 2023
  • 5 Comments
  • Time To Read: < 1 min

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

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