« On 8 July, Hong Kong’s government opened a public consultation on a white paper entitled “Copyright and Artificial Intelligence” proposing the introduction of a new copyright exception for text and data mining activities, in both commercial and non-commercial contexts. (…) »
« We are delighted that the NORF-funded SCOIR project has a Draft model legislation to ensure open access to major Research Outputs produced by researchers and academics at Irish Institutions. SCOIR aims to unharness the power of open research by assessing and presenting options for…
« CCC, a leader in advancing copyright, accelerating knowledge, and powering innovation, today announced the availability of artificial intelligence (AI) re-use rights within its Annual Copyright Licenses (ACL), an enterprise-wide content licensing solution offering rights from millions of works to businesses that subscribe.
The inclusion…
« Scientists should be compensated and credited when artificial intelligence chatbots pull information from their papers, a collecting society has said. The call comes amid news that two major academic publishers sold access to their research papers and data to large tech firms to train their artificial intelligence models without consulting…
« The introduction of the text and data mining (TDM) exception in 2014 led to researchers asking for support from staff within Library Services at the University of Birmingham. An initial involvement with a funded corpus linguistics project fostered an effective partnership between the Copyright and Licensing Team and the University’s…
« La non-consumptive research est la recherche où le seul usage que le chercheur fait d’une ressource numérique est d’y appliquer une analyse informatique (computationnelle), et non d’en lire et comprendre « humainement » des parties substantielles afin d’assimiler intellectuellement son contenu. Exemples de non-consumptive research use : extraction de texte,…
« Secondary publishing rights articles have been introduced in seven European countries, while others are exploring their introduction. These are considered as an example of the broad efforts to recalibrate the entire scholarly communication system, together with rights retention policies, and their importance has been greeted by the Council of Europe…
« (…) Creative Commons (CC) licenses are the predominant mechanism for communicating usage rights; however, finding the CC license information — or being confident that there is not any — can be a challenge. Today we report on a project to investigate how publisher platforms represent CC licenses for OA and…
« Copyright retention has been at the core of Plan S since its inception. Its first principle is that authors or their institutions retain copyright to their work. The Rights Retention Strategy aims to ensure that authors retain their rights and comply with funders´ mandates of immediate…
« This week Getty Images commenced legal proceedings in the High Court of Justice in London against Stability AI claiming Stability AI infringed intellectual property rights including copyright in content owned or represented by Getty Images. (…) »
