Artificial-intelligence developers are buying access to valuable data sets that contain research papers — raising uncomfortable questions about copyright. (14 Aug 2024) Academic publishers are selling access to research papers to technology firms to train artificial-intelligence (AI) models. Some researchers have reacted with dismay at such deals happening without the consultation of authors. The trend is raising…
(30 Jul 2024) Perplexity AI will soon start sharing advertising revenue with news publishers when its chatbot surfaces their content in response to a user query, a move that appears designed to assuage critics that have accused the startup of plagiarism and unethical web scraping. Find out more here.
Copyright Clearance Center’s AI re-use rights offer stands in its Annual Copyright Licenses subscription program for ‘millions of works.’ (16 Jul 2024) Even as lawsuits and tense exchanges go on around unlicensed use of copyrighted content to train their LLMs (large language models), the United States-based Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) today (July 16) has announced a…
(15 Jul 2024) There are lawsuits for every type of creator. Journalists, novelists, visual artists, musicians, programmers, and actors all have lawsuits in their name. However, all the lawsuits ask one fundamental question: When, if ever, is it acceptable to train an AI on copyright-protected work without permission? This seems like an existential threat to AI, and in many ways, it is.…
(5 Jun 2024) Google was hit with a lawsuit on Wednesday by educational publishers Cengage, Macmillan Learning, McGraw Hill and Elsevier accusing the tech giant of promoting pirate copies of their textbooks. The publishers told the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, opens new tab that Google has ignored thousands of copyright-infringement notices and…
(29 May 2024) Some of the most infamous so-called shadow libraries have increasingly faced legal pressure to either stop pirating books or risk being shut down or driven to the dark web. Among the biggest targets are Z-Library, which the US Department of Justice has charged with criminal copyright infringement, and Library Genesis (Libgen), which was sued by…
(22 Jan 2024) Copyright rules have a key impact on the work of libraries, shaping how we acquire, manage, and enable people to use knowledge. It is also an evolving issue, with new laws and regulation always under discussion, in response to technological, political and economic change. IFLA asked the members of its Advisory Committee…
(8 Jan 2024) On December 4, 2023, the Italian Publishers Association (AIE) filed a copyright complaint against Anna’s Archive. Established in 1869, AIE represents publishers of books, scientific journals, and digital content, controlling 90 percent of the local market. AIE’s complaint cites over 30 books, emphasizing that this is just a glimpse of the content…
(18 Sep 2023) A group of large US science and education publishers are trying to get “notorious” online database Library Genesis – known by students as LibGen – kicked offline and claw back some of the cash they allege the owners made from copyright infringement. The suit, filed in a New York federal court [PDF], asks…
(30 Aug 2023) Today, the U.S. Copyright Office issued a notice of inquiry (NOI) in the Federal Register on copyright and artificial intelligence (AI). The Office is undertaking a study of the copyright law and policy issues raised by generative AI and is assessing whether legislative or regulatory steps are warranted. The Office will use the…