Major publishing houses including HarperCollins and Penguin are suing the non-profit Internet Archive for its National Emergency Library, set up to provide access to books during the COVID-19 shutdown. The Authors Guild has supported the publishers’ copyright action.
I speak on behalf of a number of copyright academics that recently released a statement on Implementing User Rights for Research in the Field of Artificial Intelligence: A Call for Action at International Level... Many countries have rights to reproduce materials for research purposes that are broad enough to permit text and data mining to train AI and for other purposes. But many laws are inadequate because they are restricted to non-commercial uses, excerpts of works, or do not extend to the communications between researchers necessary to enable collaboration and validation.
[Heesob Nam] Piracy is a political term used to label to every unauthorized use of copyrighted content as “illegal looting,” and to justify strengthened copyright enforcement . The copyright industries, including MPAA, BSA and IFPI, have estimated huge economic harms caused by piracy. Yet some literature show piracy having a positive effect on legal purchases of cultural products. Here is one example, which comes from a Korean public agency.