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Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn’t always fair use – Ars Technica
“Power grab” Cops scuffle with Trump picks at Copyright Office after AI report stuns tech industry. Ashley Belanger – May 12, 2025 12:37 PM | A day after the US Copyright Office dropped a bombshell pre-publication report challenging artificial intelligence firms’ argument that all AI training should be considered fair use, the Trump administration fired…
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Victory for Users: Librarian of Congress Renews and Expands Protections for Fair Uses | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The new rules for exemptions to copyright’s DRM-circumvention laws were issued today, and the Librarian of Congress has granted much of what EFF asked for over the course of months of extensive briefs and hearings. The exemptions we requested—ripping DVDs and Blurays for making fair use remixes and analysis; preserving video games and running multiplayer…
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Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Orphan Works for Libraries & Archives | Center for Media & Social Impact
“Statement of Best Practices Resources Orphan Works – Over 150 librarians, archivists and other memory institution professionals have contributed to the development of this Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Collections Containing Orphan Works. Download this statement, which provides clear and easy to understand guidance for memory institutions that seek to provide digital…
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Appeals Court Reverses Georgia State Fair Use Decision
“Copying practices in the academic world were again thrown into legal disarray when a federal appellate court reversed a fair use finding in favor of Georgia State University (GSU) in its long-standing copyright dispute with several academic publishers. The trial court had found the practices, which involved scanning portions of books into electronic course reserves…
