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LAION vs Kneschke: German Courts Find that Public Datasets are …
1 day ago · industry | infojustice. Aspen Doesn’t Want You to Own Your Own Casebooks; Still Profitable After All These Years; Recording Industry Reports Growth from User-Generated Content and New Projects in Emerging Economies
Updates on Research in the Brazilian AI Bill | infojustice
1 day ago · By 2019, new legislative proposals emerged, with a sharper focus on AI; however, none addressed copyright issues until 2020. In 2022, a Special Commission (CJUSBIA) was established to consolidate three major AI bills, resulting in Bill 2338/2023 (‘Brazilian AI Bill’). While the initial draft focused primarily on text and data mining (TDM ...
WIPO Treaty on Genetic Resources and Associated ... - infojustice
May 27, 2024 · As described in “Article 6 of the WIPO IGC Treaty: Restraining Revocation,” many laws in developing countries explicitly authorize revocation of granted patents for non-compliance with genetic resource disclosure requirements that may have to be changed if the Treaty is ratified by them.[9]. A Victory for WIPO and Brazil. The conclusion of the treaty was a victory for the leadership of ...
Is Using Data to Train AI ‘Fair Use’? | infojustice
1 day ago · In a recent Forbes article, Roomy Khan explored the ongoing legal debates around the use of copyrighted content for training artificial intelligence (AI) models.Whether AI companies can use copyrighted data, such as images, books, and news articles, under the “fair use” doctrine is yet to be clarified by courts in the United States, but major lawsuits are ongoing and include companies such ...
Video on the Design Law Treaty and Disclosure of Traditional …
1 day ago · In the negotiations of a Design Law Treaty, there is considerable debate on whether countries will be able to ensure disclosure of Traditional Knowledge, Traditional Cultural Expressions and Genetic Resources which might have been used in designs. In this video produced by Black Stripe Foundation ...
Wrapping up our NEH-funded project to help text and data …
Oct 4, 2023 · By Rachael G Samberg [email protected] and Timothy Vollmer [email protected]. Image via rawpixel, public domain. In August 2022, the UC Berkeley Library and Internet Archive were awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to study legal and ethical issues in cross-border text and data mining (TDM).
Copyright: a driver of internet fragmentation? | infojustice
Oct 9, 2023 · Typically, concerns about internet fragmentation focus on the way in which rules around data transfer (for example, prohibiting flows outside of borders), or forms of privacy or platform regulation that tend to discourage offering services across borders given the risks faced. However, one driver of fragmentation not necessarily so often talked ...
Copyright and COVID: Libraries Take Stock | infojustice
Jun 21, 2022 · Teresa Hackett. As the world moves from emergency mode to living with COVID, libraries are taking stock of the impact of the global pandemic on library services from a copyright and licensing perspective. Early results indicate that support for online education and access to knowledge fell short of what was needed during the pandemic.
Academic Publishers Face Lawsuit Over Anti-Competitive Practices
Sep 24, 2024 · A lawsuit filed against six major academic publishers alleges that restrictive practices that maximize profits at the expense of scholars and the public violate U.S. antirust laws (see Reuters). The publishers named as defendants in the suit include Elsevier, John Wiley & Sons, Sage Publications, Springer Nature, Taylor & Francis, and Wolters ...