Appeals Court Rules That Library of Congress Can No Longer Require Deposit of Published Works

An appeals court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the government to require deposit of published works in the Library of Congress

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Who Is Going to Make Money from Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Communications?

The current uproar over artificial intelligence does not show us what the future of AI will look like, but rather how a human population falls into predictable patterns as it contemplates any new development: we are observing not AI but ourselves observing AI.

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Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say.

The copyright warning notice prescribed by the US Copyright Office misleads library patrons about their fair use rights, and must change.

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The Supreme Court Case of Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith: What, if Anything, Does it Mean to Artificial Intelligence?

The Supreme Court has ruled in the Andy Warhol–Prince fair use case. What does this mean for scholarly communications, and the reuse of materials for AI training?

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What Can I Do with This? Indicators of Usage Rights in the User Interface

Inconsistency in location/format of usage rights information and CC badges across formats and platforms makes it challenging to discover if/how articles can be reused. @lisalibrarian

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Controlled Digital Lending Takes a Blow in Court

A Federal judge’s ruling offered a stern rebuke of the Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library and its controlled digital lending service, providing a significant victory for the four publishers that had filed suit.

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Thinking About ChatGPT and the Future — Where Are We On AI’s Development Curve?

A compilation of links and a video to incisive analyses of ChatGPT and what it means for the future.

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SPARC Europe highlights of 2022

We are very excited to announce the publication of our 2022 Annual Report.  Last year was an eventful year for SPARC Europe, and we were pleased to reconnect with our network […]

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Guest Post — Texas Library Coalition for United Action (TLCUA) and Elsevier Conclude Negotiations for Access to ScienceDirect Journals

Ginger Williams and Posie Aagaard offer a look at the Texas Library Coalition and its new deal with Elsevier.

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GitHub is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative Commons Licensing

GitHub and Microsoft are being sued for using open source software without creator attribution in alleged violation of open licensing requirements. What implications does this have for the scholarly literature and Creative Commons licenses?

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Return of the Big Deal: Developments in Texas and India

New arrangements planned in Texas and India move us away from a universal transition to OA, and back towards the Big Deal.

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Project Retain Preliminary Findings: Rights Retention, Licensing & Copyright

Did you know that over 60 European higher education institutions have policies covering the copyright of research publications and almost 45 institutions either have or will soon have rights retention policies […]

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Gathering insights on copyright and open access at Europe academic institutions

At SPARC Europe, we are keen to better understand the topic of copyright for Open Access at research institutions across Europe.  We are therefore calling for European academic institutions to complete […]

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