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A new Report by the Brazilian Copyright Institute (IBDAutoral), directed by professor Allan Rocha, proposes revisions to a new Brazil proposal to require remuneration for training artificial intelligence. The Report, a summary...

The UK’s government decided against implementing a broad copyright exception for AI training. This decision follows earlier plans to allow AI companies to use copyrighted content for training without a license, which has now...

Teresa Hackett, EIFL Copyright and Libraries Programme Manager, provides a summary of the key outcomes and achievements from the WIPO copyright committee (SCCR/44) meeting held in Geneva from November 6 to 8, 2023. The meeting...

The fifth round for the trilogue negotiations on the EU AI Act was scheduled for October 24, 2023. Communia Association, in collaboration with Creative Commons and Wikimedia Europe issued a statement urging the co-legislators to...

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was recently discussed at a trilogue meeting of three key bodies of the EU as part of the last phase of negotiations, on October 24, 2023. Creative Commons (CC) collaborated...

Prof. P. Bernt Hugenholtz Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam Email: hugenholtz@uva.nl In preparation of the 44th meeting of the SCCR a Third Revised Draft Text for the WIPO Broadcasting...

The European Commission and the Ukrainian National Office for Intellectual Property and Innovations (IP office) held their annual IP Dialogue under the Association Agreement between the European Commission and Ukraine on October...

Creative Commons held a one-day workshop before kickstarting the CC Global Summit 2023 in Mexico City. The purpose of the workshop was to discuss issues related to Artificial Intelligence, creators, and the commons, and to help...

Repost from IFLA It can often feel like governments are playing catch-up with the internet. As digital technologies play an increasingly indispensable role in everything we do, the risks that they also bring are becoming...

By Rachael G Samberg rsamberg@berkeley.edu and Timothy Vollmer tvollmer@berkeley.edu Image via rawpixel, public domain In August 2022, the UC Berkeley Library and Internet Archive were awarded a grant from the National...

Amidst the copyright reform debate in South Africa, the Cultural and Creative Industries Federation of South Africa (CCIFSA) recently initiated its #NationalShutDownMarch campaign, in opposition of the reform. The article...

This book examines the numerous adverse and unintended consequences of the shift to ed-tech as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It documents the consequences of widespread educational technologies, specifically how...

On the 18th and 19th of September 2023 the Heads of State and Government and high representatives, met at the United Nations Headquarters in New York, at the Sustainable Development Goals Summit, to review progress and...

​​In a recent decision of the D.C. Circuit, in American Society for Testing and Materials v. PublicResource.org, the Court affirmed the District Court’s finding that the publishing of the Code of Federal Regulations online...

By Viviana Rangel – Patricia Díaz The Latin American Alliance for Fair Access to Knowledge highlights in an article for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) blog the critical role of copyright in enabling efficient AI...

Vyas discusses copyright’s “balance” metaphor, alleged to have originated in the 1785 British case Sayre v. Moore. This paper aims to contribute to the exploration of the genealogy of this concept in copyright, especially in the...

Klosek highlights the challenges faced by libraries in the United States, such as not having enough bargaining power to retain their rights when negotiating with vendors for digital scholarly content, and inability to preserve...

The article titled ‘SA’s new copyright bills could sink Agoa – Contentious laws could ‘substantially lower’ protections,’ published in The Sunday Times on July 30, 2023, prompted surprise due to its assertions. While...