CCC returned to the London Book Fair to host the “Publishers, Copyright & AI: Taking Action” panel and welcomed the publishing community to discuss how our data-driven solutions can help them transition to and transform Open Access (OA) programs.
“Publishers, Copyright & AI: Taking Action” featured an international panel of senior figures from leading scholarly publishers, including Claire Harper, Head of Global Rights & Licensing, Sage, and Sarah Fricker, Group Head of Legal, IOP Publishing. They addressed questions such as, “What are the legal and regulatory precedents that really matter?” and “Which measures must be in place to support innovation, while facilitating responsible AI approaches by big tech?” Attendees learned what they can do when it comes to facilitating permission to use copyrighted works to train AI models.
This London Book Fair panel followed a series of CCC-hosted Town Hall events on the topic of AI:
- The Heart of the Matter: Copyright, AI Training and LLMs, where experts discussed technical and legal aspects of the use of copyrighted content in AI systems.
- AI, Licensing and the Path Forward, which focused on the role of opt-in, voluntary collective licensing for securing access to large collections of copyrighted materials with permission, and why AI technologies must address important concerns over equity, transparency, and authenticity.
- ChatGPT & Information Integrity, which explored the evolving nature of originality and authenticity in a world of AI and discussed the rapid growth of generative AI tools.
CCC’s dedicated resource page, AI, Copyright & Licensing, features informational resources for creators, rightsholders, technologists, media representatives, policy makers, intellectual property attorneys, and others.
Connect with CCC publishing industry experts to discuss how we can support publishers in a changing ecosystem.We will be continuing conversations on the various metadata challenges facing the scholarly publishing community, as outlined in The State of Scholarly Metadata interactive report, while sharing how the CCC Scholarly Communications Suite can support publishers of all sizes with metadata-driven OA solutions to scale and optimize transforming businesses. This includes OA Intelligence, which combines sophisticated, AI-enabled, affiliation-matching technology and analytic capabilities; RightsLink for Scientific Communications, offering flexible workflows for publishers to manage APC payments & institutional OA agreements; and Ringgold Solutions, an expertly curated database utilizing persistent identifiers (PIDs) to improve the quality of organization data.