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California’s Proposed Fix to the Journalism Crisis Is Unconstitutional and Worse Than Socialism (Comments on the California Journalism Protection Act, CJPA)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

California’s latest entry into this Internet death-spiral is the California Journalism Protection Act (CJPA, AB 886). The CJPA engages with a critical problem in our society: how to ensure the production of socially valuable journalism in the face of the Internet’s changes to journalists’ business models?

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Utilizing the Annual Copyright License Across Your Organization

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After all, many kinds of published literature, including news, blogs, books, journals, and standards — including the organizations’ own materials — are protected by copyright laws that place limits on how content can be used by others without the rightsholder’s permission. How Do Different Departments Use the Annual Copyright License?

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Copyright for AI-generated works: a task for the internal market?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

In many computational creativity projects in the fields of art , journalism and music , the heavy reliance on AI stretches the causation bond between the human author and the final creative output to breaking point. It would not genuinely guarantee a level-playing field for all players in all Member States in a specific market.

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Missing Revenue in the Global Flip: Getting the Open Access Math Right

Velocity of Content

While the US policy differs from Plan S in that it purports to be “agnostic” toward business models, the end result, the flipping of hybrid/subscription journals to fully-OA, may be the same. The thinking is that if we can somehow manage to flip the institutional subscription revenues to OA models, the market will sustain itself.

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CCC at the Charleston Conference 2023

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During the session, the panelists will discuss the current state of agreement reporting and review the specific industry reporting templates and guidelines they currently follow.

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Fourth Circuit Issues a Bummer Fair Use Ruling–Philpot v. IJR

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. Philpot claims his standard photo licensing fee is $3,500, but reuses of the photo from Wikipedia Commons didn’t require any payment (just attribution). ” Market Effect.

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CCC Town Hall Preview With Bruce Rich

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From Large Language Models (LLMs) to other research-based applications, AI technologies rely on millions of books, scholarly journals, and other curated publications. On Thursday, October 12, 2023, 1000 EDT/1500 BST/1600 CEST, CCC presents a Town Hall special program on LinkedIn Live, “AI, Licensing & The Path Forward.”