Restricting Innovation: How Publisher Contracts Undermine Scholarly AI Research
This post is by Rachael Samberg, Director, Scholarly Communication & Information Policy, UC Berkeley Library and Dave Hansen, Executive Director, […]
New White Paper on Open Access and U.S. Federal Information Policy
Authors Alliance and SPARC have released the first of four planned white papers addressing legal issues surrounding open access to
Text Data Mining Research DMCA Exemption Renewed and Expanded
Earlier today, the Library of Congress, following recommendations from the U.S. Copyright Office, released its final rule adopting exemptions to
Hachette v. Internet Archive Update: Second Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Against Internet Archive
We got a disappointing decision yesterday from the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in the long-running Hachette v. Internet Archive
Authors Alliance and SPARC Supporting Legal Pathways to Open Access for Scholarly Works
Authors Alliance and SPARC are excited to announce a new collaboration to address critical legal issues surrounding open access to
Copyright Office Recommends Renewal of the Existing Text Data Mining Exemptions for Literary Works and Films
Authors Alliance is delighted to announce that the Copyright Office has recommended that the Librarian of Congress renew both of
Authors Alliance and Allies Petition to Renew and Expand Text Data Mining Exemption
Authors Alliance is pleased to announce that in recent weeks, we have submitted petitions to the Copyright Office requesting that
Open Access and University IP Policies in the United States
Perhaps the most intuitive statement in the whole of the U.S. Copyright Act is this: “Copyright in a work protected
Prosecraft, text and data mining, and the law
Last week you may have read about a website called prosecraft.io, a site with an index of some 25,000 books
Read your open access publishing agreements, or: how you might accidentally give Elsevier or Wiley the exclusive right to profit from your OA article
Reading publishing agreements–even for short academic articles–can be extremely time consuming. For many academic publishers, you’ll find an array of