Text and Data Mining (TDM)

  ChatGPT based on the input of millions of unknown creators of visual artworks on the public internet There is a bit of excitement in copyright circles about the first case referred to the CJEU that…

  Image by mcmurryjulie from Pixabay The debate on whether works protected by copyright can be used for the training of artificial intelligence (AI) has reached India. While dozens of US District…

  Interior of a bookshop in 1815 This week, COMMUNIA released a new report detailing unfair practices in the licensing of digital resources to libraries (as a PDF file). This report describes…

  Photo by Tim Mossholder on Unsplash Regular readers of the Kluwer Copyright Blog may already be familiar with the excellent reviews of the first two rulings on the European Union’s new text and…

Photo by CrowN on Unsplash Once the dust has settled after a difficult lawmaking process, commentators may succumb to the temptation of simply accepting and rubberstamping whatever result has been…

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash Slightly overdue, but here comes the first roundup of 2025. The EU courts have issued just one judgment in this trimester, but to make up for it, there have been…

Image by Mohamed Hassan via PxHere The debate on the use of copyrighted material to train generative AI models is evolving, shifting its focus from whether compensation is due to creators, to…

 The European Copyright Society (ECS) has published its Opinion on copyright and generative AI.  The Executive Summary is reproduced below and the full Opinion is available here and here.   Executive…

 Being an academic is a vocation. We are not in it for the money (hopefully), but mostly (hopefully) for the impact that we can make on our students’ and colleagues’ lives, as well as to contribute…