Copyright – Access

Japan Academic Association for Copyright Clearance and RightsDirect Japan announce the availability of AI re-use rights for digital copyright license

AI, CopyrightApril 15, 2025

(9 Apr 2025) The Japan Academic Association for Copyright Clearance (JAC), in collaboration with RightsDirect Japan, a subsidiary of CCC (Copyright Clearance Center), today announced the availability of artificial intelligence (AI) re-use rights within the Digital Copyright License (DCL), an enterprise-wide content licensing solution offering rights from millions of works to businesses. The JAC DCL enables companies with headquarters in Japan to…

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CCC expands AI licensing with new AI Systems Training License

AI, CopyrightMarch 12, 2025

(5 Mar 2025) CCC will introduce a new AI Systems Training License later this year, enabling AI system providers and organizations developing AI-powered applications to use lawfully acquired copyrighted works as inputs for training models and generating external-facing outputs. Designed as a complement to direct licensing agreements or as a standalone solution, the license simplifies how organizations obtain…

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Microsoft offers authors $5,000 to train AI on their books

AI, CopyrightFebruary 10, 2025

(8 Feb 2025) Microsoft is taking a new approach to using copyrighted books for AI training by offering payment to HarperCollins authors. The deal sheds light on how the industry values creative work in the AI era. The company has proposed a licensing agreement with publisher HarperCollins that would pay $5,000 per book for…

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Japan to deploy AI to tackle online manga and anime piracy

AI, Asia Pacific, CopyrightDecember 12, 2024

(4 Dec 2024) Japan is planning to implement artificial intelligence to police anime and manga pirating websites that the pop-culture powerhouse accuses of costing it billions of dollars in lost revenue every year. There are at least 1,000 websites illegally offering free downloads of Japanese content, mostly its globally renowned manga graphic novels, a group…

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Artificial Intelligence impacts on copyright law

AI, CopyrightNovember 25, 2024

(20 Nov 2024) The RAND report examines the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) on copyright law, focusing on the challenges of attributing ownership and protecting rights in creative works generated by AI. It highlights the complexities in balancing innovation with fair use and legal frameworks, emphasizing the need for updates to existing laws to address…

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Has your paper been used to train an AI model? Almost certainly

AI, CopyrightAugust 15, 2024

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…

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Perplexity details plan to share ad revenue with outlets cited by its AI chatbot

AI, CopyrightAugust 13, 2024

(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.

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CCC announces a collective licensing subscription for AI systems

AI, CopyrightAugust 1, 2024

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…

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Why copyright won’t kill AI

AI, CopyrightJuly 22, 2024

(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.…

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Google sued by top textbook publishers over ads for pirated e-books

CopyrightJune 11, 2024

(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…

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