(10 May 2025) From the introduction: This Part of the Copyright Office’s Report on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence addresses the use of copyrighted works in the development of generative AI systems. The groundbreaking technologies involved draw on massive troves of data, including copyrighted works, to enable the extraordinary capabilities they now offer to the…
(29 Apr 2025) With their ability to regulate the way in which information is accessed, used, shared and created, copyright laws potentially have a major role in deciding not just how new AI models are trained, but also how they can be used. Bearing in mind libraries’ wider ambitions for – and reservations about –…
(23 Apr 2025) The Publishers’ Licensing Services (PLS) and the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society (ALCS) have announced “a significant development” in the licensing of content for generative AI. The two collective management organizations representing publishers and authors have agreed to the development by the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA) of a new collective license for…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
(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…
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.