Copyright

Looking Forward: The U.S. Copyright Office’s AI Initiative in 2024

More than one year ago, the U.S. Copyright Office launched a comprehensive initiative to examine the impact of generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) on copyright law and policy. This blog post highlights the next steps of this ongoing study and summarizes a recent update to Congress from Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter. Over the coming months, […]

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Challenges and roadblocks to robust metadata in the scholarly communications industry

Introduction For the scholarly communications community to extract the most value from scientific research, as well as to successfully move from subscription to open access publishing models, it is essential to have clean metadata and a robust infrastructure to build the required workflows, processes and systems to support effective use of that metadata. To support

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AI Art Lawsuit | How AI Art Meets 3 Criteria for Copyrights

Why AI-Generated Art Should Be Copyrightable The expression that artists will put AI in their toolbox points to the reason why AI-generated art should be copyrightable.  AI-generated art should be copyrightable because it is indeed possible to create AI-generated art with enough human intervention and creativity to satisfy the requirements for copyright. Further, we argue

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Meet Sarah Beth Morgan: An Animation Artist Drawn to Purpose

The Copyright Office celebrates Women’s History Month and this year’s theme, “Women who advocate for equity, diversity, and inclusion.” As part of this year’s celebration, Copyright Office staff sat down with Sarah Beth Morgan, an animation director, illustrator, and muralist who has practiced art across the country. Morgan attended Savannah College of Art and Design

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Mission Critical: Society Publishing in an Open Access World

By Rob Johnson, managing director at Research Consulting With the number of independent learned society publishers in sharp decline and revenues failing to keep pace with inflation, Rob Johnson, Founder and Managing Director at Research Consulting Ltd.,   looks at what the world’s oldest journal publishers must do to remain relevant in an open access world. 

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The Enduring Legal and Creative Legacy of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor

The following is a guest post by Jessica Chinnadurai, an attorney-advisor in the Office of Public Information and Education. “When Sandra Day O’Connor, the ‘cowgirl from out west,’ became the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court, she changed the world and made history.” Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote these words about her former

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