CC licenses make it easier for researchers to share their work with clear permissions. The CC BY license allows reuse with attribution, which many research funders encourage or require for open-access publications. As research continues to inform the training of generative AI tools, some publishers are steering authors who want more control over their work toward more restrictive licenses. On July 9 at 3:00 p.m. UTC, experts from CC, Europe PubMed Central, and EMBL will discuss the opportunities and challenges of various CC licenses for research publications and preprints during a webinar. They’ll cover topics such as whether you retain your copyright when choosing a CC BY license, how open licensing affects the reuse of data for AI training and research tool development, and why some authors are unable to reuse their work. This event is a fantastic opportunity to get informed and ask questions. Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/ePDGXpWz
We've heard concerns from authors that work under a CCBY license can be commercially exploited, in particular to train AI. But the reality is that authors who surrender their copyrights to the publisher will often have no say in how their research will be used. I am really looking forward to this discussion, especially given the pace at which the laws around copyright and AI are being introduced and changed.
I'm very grateful when I see a CC-By license on a research paper I want to read. Having access to empirically sound data is really important.
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