« The UC Libraries strive to preserve fair use rights when licensing electronic resources—including the fair use rights to conduct computational research and incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) tools in academic studies and scholarship.
Academic scholars like those on our campuses use licensed content for computational research, sometimes referred to as…
« 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,…
« On October 27, 2021, the Librarian of Congress issued new exemptions to the prohibition on the circumvention of technological protection measures set forth in the 17 U.S.C. 1201. Several of these exemptions adopted in the triennial section 1201 rulemaking explicitly support research activities. Moreover, the 350-page
« Until now, humanities researchers conducting text data mining in the U.S. have had to maneuver through a thicket of legal issues without much guidance or assistance. UC Berkeley Library led more than a dozen institutions in submitting (and receiving) a grant to create a National Endowment for the Humanities Institute…
« This week is Fair use and Fair dealing week, organised by the Association of Research Libraries! It is a week to celebrate these doctrines implemented in many countries all around the world and the copyright provisions that allow libraries to benefit from flexibility to continue their missions.…
« (…) Le mémoire revient sur la question de l’opposabilité du droit d’auteur dans le contexte des services automatisés de référencement d’images en France et au Canada. L’épineuse question d’un éventuel retour à l’opposabilité du droit d’auteur en France et au Canada est ensuite abordée. Ce retour à l’opposabilité du droit…
« The new Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software Preservation provides clear guidance on the legality of archiving legacy software to ensure continued access to digital files of all kinds and to illuminate the history of technology.
This Code was made by and for the…
« HathiTrust has reached a tremendous milestone in the history of HathiTrust and the HathiTrust Research Center’s services.
Since 2011, HTRC has been developing services and tools to allow researchers to employ text and data mining methodologies using the HathiTrust collection. To date, this service has been available only on the…
« The fifth annual Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week took place February 26–March 2, 2018, growing to 153 participating organizations—as well as numerous individuals—celebrating the important and flexible doctrines of fair use and fair dealing worldwide. This year’s event was organized by the Association of Research…
« This report examines how the University Libraries at Virginia Tech have supported text and data mining in the past, and how academic libraries in general are providing support for it. The report looks at licensing content for TDM as well as legal and technical aspects. The report concludes with recommendations…
