Protecting University Repositories from Aggressive Web Scraping – Using Database Rights to Retain Control Over Academic Content TAGS: AI training | copyright | database right | generative AI | institutional repository | open access | web scraping Universities have long served as custodians of knowledge, investing heavily in infrastructure that ensures research outputs are preserved, discoverable, and freely available to all. Institutional repositories, designed to host open …Continue reading →

Post-mortem: Why the UK Government Copyright & AI Consultation Left No One Satisfied TAGS: AI training | artificial intelligence | copyright | copyright exception | data mining | TDM | text and data mining | UK Government consultation The UK Government Copyright and Artificial Intelligence Consultation ended on Tuesday, 25th February 2025. The consultation was initiated due to ongoing disputes regarding the application of UK copyright law to …Continue reading →

Copyright Insights and Collaborative Exploration: A Visit to Leiden University and KU Leuven Libraries TAGS: copyright | KU Leuven library | Leiden University library | secondary publishing right | Taverne amendment Last month, I had the incredible opportunity to go on an Erasmus+ visit to Leiden University Library and KU Leuven University Library to meet with colleagues and discuss about copyright, …Continue reading →

September Journal Club : Copyright and digital library development in the UK TAGS: Brexit | copyright | digital libraries   Our first meeting of the Journal Club in 2019/20 met on Wednesday 4 September to talk about copyright and digital library development in the UK. Our discussion article was: …Continue reading →

EU copyright, quo vadis? TAGS: Brussels | copyright | European Copyright Society | intellectual property This month our copyright expert Eugen attended a one day conference in Brussels to keep up to date with the latest developments in Intellectual Property law. “EU copyright, quo vadis? …Continue reading →

Copyright waffle and the illusion of choice. TAGS: copyright | open access | post-2014 REF An academic colleague of mine recently had an article accepted for publication in a journal. As usual they were emailed by the publisher who asked them to sign an Author Publishing …Continue reading →

Tips for getting copyright right TAGS: copyright | online | photocopying | research | University of Edinburgh I’ve had some questions about copyright recently so thought I’d share a few tips … 1. All reproduction from published material is subject to copyright law. The UK Copyright Service …Continue reading →