EDIT: On Sunday evening, Judge Alsup granted the motion for a hearing on Monday, September 8th, but expressed disappointment over […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
For this post, we relied heavily on the help of Charles Horn, self-described “metadata wrangler,” for data analysis. As readers […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
Rayne Zaayman-Gallant / EMBL, CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 Authors are navigating change when it comes to copyright and artificial intelligence. We’re committed to developing and sharing practical resources tha…| Authors Alliance
'Proliferating piracy' and AI-training on copyrighted content: The AAP reports a possible settlement in the California case. The post A Potential Settlement in the Anthropic AI-Training Lawsuit appeared first on Publishing Perspectives.| Publishing Perspectives
We’ve written before about the use of contracts limiting author’s access to fair use, including how publisher contracts restrict innovation […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
Last month, a diverse set of stakeholders gathered at New York University Law School to contribute to an implementation plan […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
Yesterday, Authors Alliance filed an amicus brief, joined by EFF, ARL, ALA, and Public Knowledge, with the 9th Circuit in support of Anthropic’s petition to be allowed to appeal the class certifica…| Authors Alliance
Late last week Judge Alsup, presiding over the Bartz v. Anthropic copyright AI litigation, granted a motion to certify a class representing authors and rightsholders of nearly 7 million books. If y…| Authors Alliance
NO FAKES 2025 does not care about actual deception, impersonation, and harm to the average person; instead, it focuses on enabling political censorship and monetization of celebrity likeness.| Authors Alliance
Explore the ethical dilemmas of META using pirated sources of copyrighted content without permission for AI training.| Hugh Stephens Blog
“Market dilution” suggests that “using copyrighted books to train an LLM might harm the market for those works because it enables the rapid generation of countless works that compete with the origi…| Authors Alliance
Yesterday, Judge Alsup released his decision on Anthropic’s motion for summary judgment in the fast-moving lawsuit it is defending, brought by three book authors on behalf of a class of millions ob…| Authors Alliance
A recent legal decision has reaffirmed the power of fair use in the digital age, and it’s a big win for libraries and the future of public access to knowledge.| Internet Archive Blogs
In a nuanced decision that nonetheless could serve to shape the intersection of copyright law and artificial intelligence for the foreseeable future, Judge William Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California finds that “the purpose and character of using copyrighted works to train LLMs to generate new text was quintessentially ... Bartz v. Anthropic: Mapping Fair-Use Boundaries in the Age of Generative AI The post Bartz v. Anthropic: Mapping Fair-Use Boundaries ...| Truth on the Market
From the Association of Research Libraries (CC BY), check out this infographic: How Fair Use Helps in Saving Software PSU Libraries’ Software Curation Librarian, Seth Erickson, is working to identify software of cultural and scientific value in order to support both historical work on software and reproducibility in science. As a member of the Software […]| Copyright Information
A great look at how fair use promotes the creation of new knowledge. From the Association of Research Libraries (CC BY), check out this infographic. Fair Use leads to innovation and new knowledge creation This infographic illustrates how fair use advances innovation, creativity, and scholarship, ultimately allowing new knowledge to be created and shared. SaveSave| Copyright Information
Looking for awesome resources to help learn and teach about copyright in a fun easy to understand way? Check out these free Copyright comics! The first and third are full-length graphic novels and are available under Creative Commons Licenses. Tales from the Public Domain: BOUND BY LAW? James Boyle, Jennifer Jenkins and Keith Aoki “Bound […]| Copyright Information
Want to know more about how fair use affects us, our culture, and how to implement it in your work? Check out the reading list below and don’t miss the Best Practices guides at the end. Do you think we missed a title that we should share? Be sure to leave a comment! For Everyone […]| Copyright Information
A great look at how fair use enables your every day college lifestyle! From the Association of Research Libraries (CC BY), check out this infographic. What Fair Use Myths will you find out arenR…| Copyright Information
Although I have expressed aspects of these views in several posts over the past couple of years, I will try to consolidate my opinion as to why GAI training with protected creative works is a more problematic fair use consideration than many, even the courts, seem to believe. I acknowledge that even fellow copyright advocates […] The post Finding Fair Use for GAI Training is Highly Problematic appeared first on The Illusion of More.| The Illusion of More
In a ruling with potential implications for other pending generative artificial intelligence (“AI”) copyright cases, the United States District Court for the District of Delaware in Thomson Reuters Enterprise Centre GmbH & West Publishing Corp. v. ROSS Intelligence Inc. has granted summary judgment for Thomson Reuters on direct copyright infringement and related defenses, as well [...]| Debevoise Data Blog
Our comment urges the agency to examine how copyright enforcement mechanisms on major technology platforms are harming independent creators and undermining the constitutional principles behind copy…| Authors Alliance
Our law student intern this semester studied the legal and practical challenges facing TDM researchers. She shares her key takeaways.| Authors Alliance
The case recently brought against OpenAI by the New York Times is the latest in a series of legal actions involving AI in the United States, and mirrored in other countries –notably, the UK. In order to train their technologies, should AI companies be allowed to use works under copyright protection without consent? The lawsuits... Continue reading| Kluwer Copyright Blog