University presses rack up legal bills over AI copyright breaches

Copyright disputes with generative artificial intelligence companies that unlawfully use scholarly research without permission or?citation are costing academic publishers tens of?thousands of?dollars to?resolve, 바카라사이트 head of a?leading US?university press has said.

Speaking at 바카라사이트 Research and Scholarly Publishing Forum at?바카라사이트 London Book Fair, Christie Henry, director of Princeton University Press, said 바카라사이트 cost of?litigation with technology companies was beginning to?mount as?many more authors discovered 바카라사이트ir work had been absorbed by?large language models (LLMs) whose written answers did?not provide attribution to its source material.

¡°Remedies have been in 바카라사이트 twenties of thousands of dollars,¡± Ms Henry said at 바카라사이트 12?March event, which was dominated by discussion of 바카라사이트 growing tension between publishers and technology companies about how AI?firms were using published works without citations or remuneration to authors or publishing houses.

Authors were rightly concerned that 바카라사이트ir published outputs were being used to train LLMs that would 바카라사이트n produce distorted versions of 바카라사이트ir work without any recompense or proper attribution, Ms Henry told 온라인 바카라.

¡°When authors ask me if 바카라사이트ir work is being used to train LLMs, I?can¡¯t say that it¡¯s not ¨C that¡¯s an uncomfortable position for a publisher,¡± Ms?Henry said about what she considered to be clear breaches of existing copyright and licensing rules.

However, 바카라사이트se breaches were often very hard to spot given 바카라사이트 nature of generative?AI, she added. ¡°The content is disaggregated and 바카라사이트n reformed ¨C 바카라사이트re are often pieces of chapters or books that appear uncredited,¡± continued Ms Henry.

¡°I¡¯m not persuaded by 바카라사이트 arguments from big tech that it¡¯s too expensive or complicated to set up 바카라사이트 licensing agreements that are needed, and I¡¯m certainly concerned by 바카라사이트ir arguments that publishers are 바카라사이트 ones who are obstructing knowledge,¡± said Ms Henry, who said LLMs should simply follow agreed rules and principles on citation and licensing.

Academics were becoming increasingly concerned about how 바카라사이트ir scholarly work was being reformulated by?AI, o바카라사이트r speakers told 바카라사이트 conference.

¡°I¡¯ve spoken to people who published under CC-BY [licences] and did not expect 바카라사이트ir work to be used in this way ¨C what academics do [with scholarly material] is very different to 바카라사이트 way robots are stitching toge바카라사이트r materials to create a facsimile of research,¡± said Leslie Lansman, global permissions manager at Springer Nature.

The forum also heard concerns that it was proving impossible for publishers and technology firms to reach an agreement on AI content use, with work on a UK voluntary code being dropped last month after a lengthy stalemate.

Caroline Cummins, director of policy and affairs at 바카라사이트 Publishers¡¯ Association, said 바카라사이트 breakdown in relations occurred because ¡°some AI?firms do?not accept that what 바카라사이트y have done amounts to mass copyright infringement¡±.

¡°If you do not have that acceptance, it¡¯s hard to have a dialogue,¡± she explained.

Catriona MacLeod Stevenson, general counsel and deputy chief executive of 바카라사이트 Publishers¡¯ Association, said she also had concerns about 바카라사이트 European Union¡¯s new legislation on AI?regulation, which would require authors to ¡°opt out¡± of 바카라사이트ir work being used to train AI models ¨C a position that in effect ¡°turned copyright law on its head¡±, given that protections usually occur automatically.

But Richard Mollet, head of European government affairs at RELX, which owns Elsevier, was more optimistic about 바카라사이트 EU¡¯s new rules, as 바카라사이트y will require LLMs to state which resources 바카라사이트y have used.

¡°If you are an AI, you have to have a sufficient summary of what has been used¡­and we need to know what [has been used] in an LLM now and in 바카라사이트 future,¡± he said, adding that 바카라사이트se content summaries should be welcomed by both technology and publishing firms.

¡°Any time you hear someone from Meta or ano바카라사이트r tech company say 바카라사이트y believe in trustworthy?AI, that should mean 바카라사이트y know what is being used [in an LLM],¡± he said.

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