(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…
(16 Aug 2023) Recently, the Internet Archive (IA) was found guilty of copyright infringement related to its Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) service. The CDL service provides free access to a digital library of books. In the case, US District Judge John Koeltl stated that the IA infringed the copyright of four publishers. Now, the IA…
(12 Aug 2023) Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and other record labels on Friday sued the nonprofit Internet Archive for copyright infringement over its streaming collection of digitized music from vintage records. The labels’ lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan said the Archive’s “Great 78 Project” functions as an “illegal record store” for…
(24 May 2023) Content reuse is central to most medical communications projects, but navigating the copyright guidelines applicable to this reuse remains a challenge for some agencies and clients. In this post, CCC provides you with four copyright tips that will help you better understand how published material can be leveraged in your projects in…
(11 Apr 2023) CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, today announced it has signed a bilateral agreement with the Malaysia Reprographic Rights Centre (MARC) to support its operations and the development of copyright-compliant content consumption in Malaysia benefitting both rightsholders and content users. The agreement enables MARC to include CCC’s comprehensive…
(13 Apr 2023) Fair use and AI has been a popular topic recently given the flurry of developments to generative AI systems. As discussed in the first installation of this blog, it is impractical to make broad predictions about how courts might rule on fair use and AI. However, after a high-level analysis of the…
(7 Mar 2023) The use of AI to generate art raises a number of moral, ethical and philosophical questions. What impact will AI have on artists? Will AI discourage new artists? Do the images even constitute art? What are the copyright implications? While these issues will need to be debated and decided on as…
(18 Nov 2022) Two Russian nationals have been charged for running the immensely popular pirated e-book site Z-Library. The two Russian individuals, Anton Napolsky, 33, and Valeriia Ermakova, 27, have been arrested from Cordoba, Argentina on November 3rd, 2022. The Justice Department said the duo was arrested under specific requests from the US government. All Z-Library domains…
(19 Nov 2022) After Z-Library was targeted by U.S. law enforcement, a group of anonymous archivists worked around the clock to get a shadow library search engine online. This week, the ‘team’ behind the Pirate Library Mirror launched “Anna’s Archive” which offers a gateway to various book resources. Anna’s Archive is basically a meta-search…