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AI/Copyright Lawsuit Roundup: 1) “AI Company Can Seek Fast Appeal in Copyright Battle With Thomson Reuters, Judge Rules”; 2) “Judge Calls Out OpenAI’s ‘Straw Man’ Argument in New York Times Copyright Suit”; 3) US Authors’ Copyright Lawsuits Against Openai and Microsoft Combined In New York With Newspaper Actions
Three entries. 1) AI Company Can Seek Fast Appeal in Copyright Battle With Thomson Reuters, Judge Rules Artificial Intelligence company Ross Intelligence can immediately ask an appeals court to review a ruling that it infringed copyright by training its legal research service on material published by the competing service Westlaw, owned by Thomson Reuters, a […]
Journal Article: Search Engine Results and Confirmation Bias
Title The Narrow Search Effect and How Broadening Search Promotes Belief Updating Authors Eugina Leung Tulane University Oleg Urminsky University of Chicago Source Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Vol. 122, Iss. 0 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2408175122 Blurb In an analysis of links between search engines and people’s beliefs, researchers examined data from 21 studies involving […]
Roundup: Top 15 Librarians in Pop Culture; There’s a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat; & More Headlines
AI Artificial Intelligence and Communication Technologies in Academia: Faculty Perceptions and the Adoption of Generative AI (via International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education) There’s a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat (via WSJ/MSN) Digital Libraries Now Available: Proceedings From JCDL ’24: 24th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Hong Kong Future […]
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New From NASEM: “U.S. Research Data Summit: Strengthening Cooperation Across Organizations and Sectors: Proceedings of a Workshop”
The document linked below was published by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). Title U.S. Research Data Summit: Strengthening Cooperation Across Organizations and Sectors On October 10-11, 2023, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted the U.S. Research Data Summit at the National Academy of Sciences Building in Washington, DC. […]
Meeting Proceedings: “Libraries Bridging Boundaries: Challenges & Strategies for Global Openness. IFLA Division D Midterm Meeting: Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye, June 5-7, 2024”
Ed. Note: Slides For All Presentations and Other Materials are Available Here —- The papers listed below were published online on February 17, 2025. The full text of each paper can be accessed clicking the link below. The meeting was a, “collaborative effort by the IFLA Academic and Research Libraries Section, IFLA Acquisition and Collection […]
Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief: Publishing in the Age of Open Science
The document linked below was published online by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM). Title Publishing in the Age of Open Science—Proceedings of a Workshop About the Event On February 21-22, 2024, the Chemical Sciences Roundtable of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop, Publishing in the Age […]
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Journal Article: “The Misalignment of Incentives in Academic Publishing and Implications For Journal Reform”
The article linked below was recently published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS). Title The Misalignment of Incentives in Academic Publishing and Implications For Journal Reform Authors Jennifer S. Trueblood (Indiana University), et al. (14 others) Source Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of […]
Research Paper (Preprint): “Suspected Undeclared Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Academic Literature: An Analysis of the Academ-AI Dataset”
The preprint linked to below was recently shared on arXiv. Title Suspected Undeclared Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Academic Literature: An Analysis of the Academ-AI Dataset Author Alex Glynn University of Louisville Source via arXiv DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2411.15218 Abstract Since generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT became widely available, researchers have used […]
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Sage Acquires GOOD DOCS, Distributor of Film Documentaries; The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI; & More Headlines
Alabama ‘Extremists’: Alabama GOP Chair, Anti-Censorship Group Blast Each Other Over Libraries (via AL.com) AI Microsoft Pitches AI ‘Agents’ That Can Perform Tasks on Their Own (via AP) State Department Reveals New Interagency Task Force On Detecting AI-Generated Content (via FedScoop) The US Patent and Trademark Office Banned Staff From Using Generative AI (via WIRED) […]
US Copyright Office Issues Updated DMCA Regulations
UPDATES Librarian of Congress Expands DMCA Exemption for Text and Data Mining (by Katherine Klosek, Association of Research Libraries) Text Data Mining Research DMCA Exemption Renewed and Expanded (via Authors Alliance) —-End Updates—- From Game Developer: The U.S. Copyright Office will not expand an exemption to the DMCA rules that would allow for video game […]
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