Artist Elizabeth Peyton faces a copyright infringement lawsuit over a photographer's image of Oasis brothers Liam and Noel Gallagher.

When copyright expires, the public domain isn’t always where the story ends.

Bloomsbury has 14,087 titles listed within settlement between AI startup and authors over use of protected work The publisher of Harry Potter has received a multimillion-pound payout as a beneficiary of a $1.5bn copyright settlement between AI startup Anthropic and thousands of authors over the use of their protected work to power chatbots. Bloomsbury, which is home to bestselling novelists Sarah J Maas and Susanna Clarke as well as JK Rowling, said it had 14,087 titles listed within the settlement, with a proposed compensation of about $3,000 each. Continue reading...

Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck. A bot may be to blame

We are raising funds to support people who have been attacked, displaced and traumatised in racist attacks in Belfast.

Research integrity experts commend arXiv’s crackdown on bogus AI-written citations but warn it may be impossible to police at scale

One minute, Dennis Biesma was playing with a chatbot; the next, he was convinced his sentient friend would make him a fortune. He’s just one of many people who lost control after an AI encounter

A series of court cases have showcased a weakness in the modern copyright trolling strategy. Namely, that the damages disappear when defendants fight back.

Gunnar Ridderström/Pexels As a hospital librarian, Jessica Waite is typically successful at tracking down elusive articles for clinicians at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in England. So when a colleag…

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Green Open Access, also known as self-archiving, allows authors to make their work open access by depositing their author accepted manuscript (AAM) into an institutional or subject repository.  There ...

After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

Scholars criticise lack of progress on restoring repository of 600,000 PhD theses more than two years after it was felled by cyberattack

The Mondrian Trust claims a 1930 painting is still protected—citing "dual copyrights," Spanish law, and a misreading of the Copyright Act.

Several planned reforms to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework scrapped or partially rolled back after three-month pause, bringing exercise closer to 2021 audit

Is there a world where AI developers could get the training data they need through content licensing deals? Matthew Sag argues that content licensing deals between developers of artificial intelligenc...

Ruling in case brought by Getty Images against Stability AI is seen as a blow to copyright owners

Sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses is alleged to have been shut down by Chinese agents.

How popular shows mirror - and magnify - the racial biases of the societies that produce them.

The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch This is guest post by Amanda Wakaruk, Jane Secker, and Chris Morrison. Amanda Wakaruk has worked as a copyright librarian since 2015 and is currently the Acting He…

Science minister announces review of controversial changes to research environment assessment

Fears raised over ‘culturally encouraged introversion’ but could study assistants help bridge gap between universities and Silicon Valley?

The court rejected a US composer's copyright claim to the inescapable children's song.

The ruling opens a potential pathway for AI companies to train large language models on copyrighted works without authors' consent — but only if copies of the works were obtained legally.

From next year, the AHRC will fund vastly fewer student-initiated PhDs, focusing more of its reduced funding on specific challenges. Critics say this will undo a decade of improvements in PhD supervis...

Document issued by Edward I in 1300 was bought by law school library for just $27 in 1946

This discussion piece is written by two research enabling staff who work at a small specialist creative arts Higher Education Institution (HEI) in the UK. Whilst undertaking this role it has come to l...

Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

Another article made it through peer review (at #SpringerNature) with the false claim that all #OpenAccess journals charge #APCs. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00381-023-05969-2 Reminde...

CILIP invites members and the wider information profession community to share examples of how content, reports, datasets, evidence, and tools are being removed by US authorities

Individual campus listening services to remain operational after umbrella body folds

It’s easy to process allegations against textbook scumbags like Harvey Weinstein. When it is beloved authors and ‘allies’, less so Draw near, allies, for these are dark days for “kink-shaming”. At best, this is one of the whiniest, most pathetic and…

New pan-UKRI research data policy framework will maximise the value of data arising from UKRI funding and support an open research and innovation culture.