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Welcome to our library copyright blog, your guide to the legal issues shaping higher education. Written by experienced librarians and lawyers, we offer expert legal analysis on everything from modern library administration to high-stakes AI training lawsuits and “dataset debt.” Explore our articles to protect your institution and support open science.
I have never forgotten the dictum of one of my law professors – a professor of tax law, not surprisingly – that fairness breeds complexity. His point was that the complexity of the law is often because it evolves to account for the different circumstances in which real people encounter...
Interim roles in libraries are not uncommon and come at a time when there is already flux in the organization: a director departs, an associate dean goes on leave, or a department head position remains vacant through a longer-than-anticipated search. Serving in an interim role can bring both opportunities and...
Like so many innovations, generative artificial intelligence began its life in academic research labs. Long before ChatGPT was publicly released in 2022, large language models were being used for many kinds of scholarly research. ImageNet, the focus of one of the lawsuits we will discuss here, celebrated its 10th birthday...
One of the faster moving lawsuits over generative AI has been Bartz v. Anthropic, which is being heard in the Northern District of California by federal District Judge William Alsup. Back in June, Judge Alsup issued a decision on cross-motions for summary judgment. That ruling was a mixed victory, or...
Two recent developments – one legislative and one a ruling in an ongoing lawsuit – have got me thinking about the consequences when copyright tries to address rights in the human body. It is an area that calls for careful thought and restraint. The legislative issue is so-called “deep fakes”...