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The Digital Humanities and Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group (DH/DS SIG) and the Artificial Intelligence Special Interest Group (AI SIG) recently hosted a joint session at the IFLA World Library and Information Conference, featuring six speakers from five continents. The conference featured presentations on various AI-related topics in librarianship, with over 300 participants in attendance. […]

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act was recently discussed at a trilogue meeting of three key bodies of the EU as part of the last phase of negotiations, on October 24, 2023. Creative Commons (CC) collaborated with Communia to summarize their views emphasizing the importance of a balanced and tailored approach to regulating foundation […]

By Jonathan Band, Policy Bandwidth In the heated copyright discussions over generative artificial intelligence, the term “text and data mining” is sometimes used interchangeably with “machine learning” or the “ingestion of material” to train large language models in the generative artificial intelligence context.  This paper attempts to define these activities more precisely to better understand their […]

Prof. P. Bernt Hugenholtz Institute for Information Law (IViR), University of Amsterdam Email: hugenholtz@uva.nl In preparation of the 44th meeting of the SCCR a Third Revised Draft Text for the WIPO Broadcasting Organizations Treaty was prepared by the SCCR Acting Chair, which was published on 6 September 2023. The draft replaces the Second Revised Draft that […]

Although Colombia has been recognized for its AI policies, its development is unsatisfactory. Under the Duque government, an ethical framework was issued and various documents were established to promote AI, but the impacts were not evaluated nor the opinions of local actors collected. The Petro government has not moved forward either and seems to want […]

The WIPO Broadcasting Treaty: Possible Amendments, A presentation by Professor Bernt Hugenholtz, University of Amsterdam to the fall meetings of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) at American University. In this presentation for PIJIP, Professor Bernt Hugenholtz presents a set of possible amendments to the current Chair’s Third Revised Draft of the […]