(24 Nov 2025) The backlash from researchers whose work has been used to train large language models (LLMs) has re-opened questions around how scholarly works are licensed and the merits of open licenses. Considering the legal standing of open creative commons licenses and conventional copyright, Martin Paul Eve suggests legal protections for academic work are unlikely to be…
(24 Jun 2025) A federal judge has sided with Anthropic in an AI copyright case, ruling that training — and only training — its AI models on legally purchased books without authors’ permission is fair use. It’s a first-of-its-kind ruling in favor of the AI industry, but it’s importantly limited specifically to physical books Anthropic purchased and…
(13 Jun 2025) Supported by “unrestricted gifts” from Microsoft and ChatGPT maker OpenAI, the Harvard-based Institutional Data Initiative is working with libraries and museums around the world on how to make their historic collections AI-ready in a way that also benefits the communities they serve. Harvard’s newly released dataset, Institutional Books 1.0, contains more…