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Data Is Nothing Like Oil: Dusting Off Copyright’s Originality Doctrine for the AI Age - IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law IIC - International Review of Intellectual Property and Competition Law -

Worth a read: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Explaining Green Open Access can be tricky — but we’ve got a new resource to help. A simple guide that explains what Green Open Access is and the difference between types of repositories. Take a look and feel free to reuse it in your own Open Access support. bit.ly/47f1fnm

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.

When two years of academic work vanished with a single click www.nature.com/articles/d41...

‘Give PhD archive attention it deserves,’ British Library urged Scholars criticise lack of progress on restoring repository of 600,000 PhD theses more than two years after it was felled by cyberattack

‘Give PhD archive attention it deserves,’ British Library urged www.timeshighereducation.com/news/give-ph...

Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.

ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program […]

Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees. The Mondrian Trust claims a 1930 painting is still protected—citing "dual copyrights," Spanish law, and a misreading of the Copyright Act.

The Art of Not Letting Go: The Mondrian Trust claims a 1930 painting is still protected—citing "dual copyrights," Spanish law, and the Uruguay Round Agreements Act.

Familiar playbook. None of it holds up.

Full story, up now on Copyright Lately:

copyrightlately.com/mondrian-pub...

A simple illustration showing a human figure huddled under a white background the header is ‘shy January’ text underneath the drawing says ‘avoid all people’

Move over #DryJanuary…
By Beckybarnicomics on insta.

REF 2029 downgrades research culture, restores five output limit Several planned reforms to the UK’s Research Excellence Framework scrapped or partially rolled back after three-month pause, bringing exercise closer to 2021 audit

REF 2029 downgrades research culture, restores five output limit www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-202...

The False Hope of Content Licensing at Internet Scale - ProMarket Is there a world where AI developers could get the training data they need through content licensing deals? Matthew Sag argues that content licensing deals between developers of artificial intelligenc...

www.promarket.org/2025/11/19/t...

AI firm wins high court ruling after photo agency’s copyright claim Ruling in case brought by Getty Images against Stability AI is seen as a blow to copyright owners

www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police Sensitive research into alleged human rights abuses is alleged to have been shut down by Chinese agents.

China academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police www.bbc.com/news/article...

What Celebrity Traitors Reveals About Racism on Reality TV How popular shows mirror - and magnify - the racial biases of the societies that produce them.

I’m loving the celebrity traitors, but I’ve been saying from the start that it’s such an interesting case study on unconscious bias and race. This piece by Elizabeth day articulates it better than me: theelizabethday.substack.com/p/what-celeb...

New Blog Post: 'Who owns open knowledge? The two types of licence to consider when making books open access'. For OA Week, our senior editor Lucy Barnes writes about an issue of increasing concern to libraries: the implications of different types of open licence.

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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Are Copyright Anxiety and Legal Chill Hampering Your Work? The Scream (1893) by Edvard Munch This is guest post by Amanda Wakaruk, Jane Secker, and Chris Morrison. Amanda Wakaruk has worked as a copyright librarian since 2015 and is currently the Acting He…

www.authorsalliance.org/2025/09/18/a...

Patrick Vallance hits pause on Research Excellence Framework Science minister announces review of controversial changes to research environment assessment

Patrick Vallance hits pause on Research Excellence Framework www.timeshighereducation.com/news/patrick...

‘Guard rails needed’ as big tech targets students with AI tutors Fears raised over ‘culturally encouraged introversion’ but could study assistants help bridge gap between universities and Silicon Valley?

‘Guard rails needed’ as big tech targets students with AI tutors www.timeshighereducation.com/news/guard-r...

Baby Shark: South Korean denies plagiarism claim by US composer The court rejected a US composer's copyright claim to the inescapable children's song.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... As a parent this song haunts my dreams, but I'm always up for reading about an interesting copyright case!

In a first-of-its-kind decision, an AI company wins a copyright infringement lawsuit brought by authors The ruling opens a potential pathway for AI companies to train large language models on copyrighted works without authors' consent — but only if copies of the works were obtained legally.

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Will funding cuts devalue arts and humanities PhDs in the UK? From next year, the AHRC will fund vastly fewer student-initiated PhDs, focusing more of its reduced funding on specific challenges. Critics say this will undo a decade of improvements in PhD supervis...

www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/will-f...

Harvard’s unofficial copy of Magna Carta is actually an original, experts say Document issued by Edward I in 1300 was bought by law school library for just $27 in 1946

Amazing! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The distress call "mayday!" has nothing to do with May. It's from French [venez] m'aider "[come] help me!" Sounds made up but it's true!

Word of the Day is ‘apricate’ (17th century): to turn your face to the sun and bask in its warmth.

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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

See my Mastodon thread for many other examples of this mistake.
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#ScholComm

Statement: Removal of access to and modification of data by authorities in the USA CILIP invites members and the wider information profession community to share examples of how content, reports, datasets, evidence, and tools are being removed by US authorities

CILIP is concerned that the removal, hiding, and modification of data, research and other information resources by authorities in the USA is already starting to impede the vital work of UK information professionals.
Read more👇
www.cilip.org.uk/news/693964/...

In a Jisc webinar, hearing that OUP have charged Manchester Uni more than £20,000 each for two OA books. Absolutely outrageous charges, and absolutely unsurprising to hear it was OUP.

A Q abt cost breakdown wasn't answered, but you can bet the prestige premium makes up a hefty chunk of that money.

NEW on Wonkhe: Can we use things we already measure to examine research culture in REF 2029? For Elizabeth Gadd there is scope to make better use of existing measures to improve research culture for everyone https://bit.ly/3ErKxWn

‘Difficult funding landscape’ forces Nightline charity closure Individual campus listening services to remain operational after umbrella body folds

www.timeshighereducation.com/news/difficu... This is really sad news, I was a proud nightline volunteer throughout university and the Nightline association gave us wonderful training. I hope individual campus Nightlines can remain open.