Author: Stephen Wolfson

Our new agreement greatly expands the availability of HathiTrust's public domain and Creative Commons licensed text data for Penn researchers interested in computational analysis.

This year’s theme strikes at the core of why open access is so important.

A look at two new court cases examining the intersection of copyright and generative AI. 

Almost two years and 10,000 comments after initiating a study on the topic, the U.S. Copyright Office has finally released a “pre-publication” report on training AI and copyright. Unfortunately, it may raise as many questions as it tries to answer.

There has been little guidance from either the courts or Congress on the many copyright issues that generative AI raises. That is, until now.

According to the Copyright Act of 1909, a work enters the public domain 95 years after it was published. But what does "published" mean? That’s a more complicated question than you might think.

Earlier this year, the United States Copyright Office added or renewed a number of exemptions to the DCMA, including many that benefit education and research.

An open access mandate for federally funded research highlights the importance of equitable access to scholarship.

Courts have ruled that the Internet Archive's controlled digital lending program is not fair use. Here’s what it means for the rest of us.