Join us and OCEAN this Friday, November 21 for "Creating with AI: Copyright Issues Related to Authorship, Authenticity, and Preservation for AI-assisted Works". We'll explore copyrightability and authorship of AI-assisted creative works.

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In celebration of Open Access Week UNCW is hosting a talk from Eric Harbeson, Scholarly Publishing Legal Fellow at Authors Alliance, on changes to research funders' public access policies and how those changes interact with institutional and publisher policies. Join us!

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A big thanks to everyone who came out to "Who Shapes the Future of AI? Open Models, Academic Institutions, and the Importance of Noncommercial Innovation" with Jack Bernard at University of Michigan's Center for Academic Innovation today.

UK copyright law has traditionally required a human author to satisfy the originality requirement. This changed with the introduction of Section 9(3), which allows authorship to be assigned by legal fiction where no human creator exists.

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Last Friday, @kfortney.bsky.social and Authors Alliance jointly submitted a comment in response to the USCO’s notice of inquiry on the CCB. Significant improvements are needed to ensure fairness and efficiency for all participants.

More here: www.authorsalliance.org/2025/05/14/a...

The last few days have been quite dramatic for anyone paying attention to copyright law and policy.

Here's our breakdown of the third and final Copyright Office report on copyright and AI, and the dismissal of the Register of Copyrights, Shira Perlmutter:

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THIS FRIDAY!

Join OCEAN for a Discussion Session focused on due diligence and risk mitigation when working with collections that include orphaned archival film and television materials.

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The creators of Superman sold their rights for just $130 in 1938, igniting decades of lawsuits over ownership and fair treatment. The battle is still ongoing:

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Our last book talk of the year w/ @archive.org is an important one, addressing "Vanishing Culture" - a deep dive into how and why we are losing access FOREVER to an incredible breadth of cultural works.

10amPT/1pmET on Dec 3. Register here. Free, as always:

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If you haven't attended one of our book talks with @archive.org, you should!

Our next will be especially good: Nov 19 (TOMORROW) at 1pm ET/10amPT w/ Jamie Boyle & Kate Darling talking about Jamie's new book "The Line: AI and the Future of Personhood"

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