@DigLibCopyright

Executive Director, Authors Alliance. Often tweeting from @Auths_Alliance @daverhansen@indieweb.social

 Chapel Hill, NC
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Joined November 2013
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From the current consolidated Google AI Copyright class action lawsuit. Given that the case is likely to affect millions of people, the lack of transparency is ridiculous. Not just this suit either - others like it are the same.
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Yesterday evening Register of Copyrights Shira Perlmutter filed suit against a number of individuals involved in both her attempted removal and replacement, including Todd Blanche and Paul Perkins. Read our examination on Perlmutter's legal arguments here: authorsalliance.org/2025/05/…

Perlmutter v. Blanche – Register of Copyrights Sues Trump Over His Attempt to Remove Her

[Update On September 10, the D.C. Circuit granted Perlmutter’s request for an injunction pending appeal, reinstating her as Register of Copyrights. The majority reasoned that her firing was “likely…

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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: authorsalliance.org/2025/05/…

The Copyright Office Report about Fair Use in AI & the Dismissal of the Register of Copyrights: A...

The last few days have been quite dramatic for anyone paying attention to copyright law and policy.  Thursday: The Librarian of Congress, who ultimately oversees the US Copyright Office, was d…

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Man: “Based on the revolutionary computanian law of probability this machine will tell us the precise location of the remaining golden tickets.” Machine: "I won't tell. That would be cheating." arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/a…

AI coding assistant refuses to write code, tells user to learn programming instead

Cursor AI tells user, "I cannot generate code for you, as that would be completing your work."

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Our office has two new full time job postings. The Licensing Specialist supports licensing review and processes for the Library’s electronic resources, and more. View more details and apply at careerspub.universityofcalif… @UCBerkeleyLib
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How we safeguard our digital history is the subject of Tuesday’s roundtable #booktalk, "VANISHING CULTURE: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record." 📅 Dec 3 🕙 10am PT / 1pm ET 📍 ONLINE 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-v… #VanishingCulture @InternetArchive #MemoryHole
Image for the Vanishing Culture booktalk, including photos of Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland, and Juliya Ziskina.

ALT Image for the Vanishing Culture booktalk, including photos of Luca Messarra, Chris Freeland, and Juliya Ziskina.

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I have no knowledge about the underlying validity of the IP claims, but a full retraction of two papers b/c of unproven allegations of improper software licensing seems like a disproportionate result that is harmful to the advancement of science retractionwatch.com/2024/11/…

Complaint from engineering software company prompts two retractions

via FLOW-3D An engineering journal has retracted two papers after a company complained the authors of the articles used  its software without a valid license.  Both retracted papers were published …

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I don't get why an academic journal would be so eager to adopt the role of "IP enforcement agent" for this software company
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From @dbamman (co-authored w/@rach_scholcomm) new paper today relying on #copyright exemption for decrypting DVDs to conduct #textdatamining. Using the exemption, authors built a collection of film to measure representation for gender and race/ethnicity pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.24…

Measuring diversity in Hollywood through the large-scale computational analysis of film | PNAS

Movies are a massively popular and influential form of media, but their computational study at scale has largely been off-limits to researchers in ...

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My new book, The Line: AI & the Future of Personhood, was published today by MIT Press. It is under a CC license so you can read it for free. scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi…
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Exciting news! Read about our new collaboration with @SPARC_NA on legal pathways to open access for scholarly works: authorsalliance.substack.com…
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NATHAN SCHNEIDER's book GOVERNABLE SPACES argues the internet fosters "implicit feudalism" towards autocratic norms. Join our upcoming #booktalk to learn how it could spark a democratic renaissance instead. 📅 Aug 22 ⏰ 10am PT/1pm ET 🎟️ eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-g… #Tech #Democracy
Image for the GOVERNABLE SPACES book talk. Text reads: "ONLINE. Join us for a book talk with author Nathan Schneider. Discover how we can transform digital spaces into more democratic and creative environments, inspired by governance legacies of the past. UCSD professor and author Lilly Irani will lead our discussion." Photos include the book cover, Nathan Schneider and Lilly Irani.

ALT Image for the GOVERNABLE SPACES book talk. Text reads: "ONLINE. Join us for a book talk with author Nathan Schneider. Discover how we can transform digital spaces into more democratic and creative environments, inspired by governance legacies of the past. UCSD professor and author Lilly Irani will lead our discussion." Photos include the book cover, Nathan Schneider and Lilly Irani.

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Maybe my perspective is skewed by reading law review articles with (no exaggeration) 600 footnotes, but I’d much rather have all the references. If you don’t want to read them, it’s easy to skip over. It’s not like there’s a shortage of available PDF space.
Michael Baym@baym10 Jul 2024
Journals requesting authors decrease the number of cited papers to meet some arbitrary threshold for a particular article style certainly seems like scholarly misconduct
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We're living through one of those moments when millions of people become suddenly and overwhelmingly interested in fair use, one of the subtlest and worst-understood aspects of copyright law. It's not a subject you can master by skimming a Wikipedia article! 1/
EFF's banner for the 'Unfiltered' white paper, depicting TV static overlaid with a parody of the Youtube logo and wordmark, but instead of 'Youtube' it reads 'Fair Use,' with glitched vertical and horizontal sync that distorts the logo. Image: EFF https://www.eff.org/files/banner_library/yt-fu-1b.png CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

ALT EFF's banner for the 'Unfiltered' white paper, depicting TV static overlaid with a parody of the Youtube logo and wordmark, but instead of 'Youtube' it reads 'Fair Use,' with glitched vertical and horizontal sync that distorts the logo. Image: EFF https://www.eff.org/files/banner_library/yt-fu-1b.png CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en

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The #AIAct requires GPAI model developers to implement policies to comply with opt-outs under EU © law. This policy brief explores strategies and standards for making opt-outs effective & scalable so that they work for rightholders & model developers 🤖✍️ openfuture.eu/publication/co…
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You still have time to register for today's book talk with @Auths_Alliance at 10am PT / 1pm ET for "The Secret Life of Data" 👇 eventbrite.com/e/book-talk-t…

Book Talk: The Secret Life of Data

Join tech scholar LAURA DENARDIS for a conversation with ARAM SINNREICH & JESSE GILBERT about data surveillance, digital forensics & AI.

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Happening today at 11! If you can’t make it in person there is an online option as well
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Authors Alliance members in Atlanta -- if you want to learn more about AI & copyright, come check out this fantastic panel on April 10 hosted at Emory! It's free and open to the public
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Excited to get my copy of “The Baby Book of Copyright” by @CopyrightLady !
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For anyone in Atlanta who is interested in AI, copyright and computational analysis -- check out this awesome event hosted by @EmoryLibsOA @EmoryLibrary featuring @matthewsag and @lisamacklin Free and open to the public on April 10 at 11am! libraries.emory.edu/events-e…
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My favorite spot on campus in the spring, Coker Arboretum @UNC
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