We’re delighted to announce the five recipients of our AI, Authorship, and the Public Interest grant awards. Chosen from a competitive pool of over 160 proposals, these grantees stood out for their thoughtful, innovative projects that align closely with our research priorities and our mission to serve the public interest.| Blog – Authors Alliance
On Thursday, Judge Alsup of the Northern District of California granted preliminary approval of a settlement in the class action […]| Blog – Authors Alliance
This is a post by Syn Ong, AI Policy Researcher at Authors Alliance. Authors increasingly rely on text and data mining (TDM) to analyze large corpora across disciplines. Our new working paper, Beyo…| Authors Alliance
Patrick Gallaher at Public Knowledge recently posted an article about AI training with protected works, proposing to distinguish between piracy and fair use. Not to begin on a pedantic note, but the article is subtitled “Words Matter” because it claims that piracy is a provocative, non-legal term, so I have to respond by saying this […] The post Public Knowledge Post on AI & Fair Use Misses the Mark appeared first on The Illusion of More.| The Illusion of More
Explore why 'fair use' doesn't excuse piracy in the landmark Anthropic case and its implications for the future of AI and copyright law.| Hugh Stephens Blog
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
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
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
“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
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
At best, weighing fair use for training generative artificial intelligence with copyrighted works is highly problematic.| 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
