From Large Language Models (LLMs) to other research-based applications, AI technologies rely on millions of books, scholarly journals, and other curated publications. Responsibly using these works is a foundational part of the discussion.

On Thursday, October 12, 2023, 1000 EDT/1500 BST/1600 CEST, CCC presents a Town Hall special program on LinkedIn Live, “AI, Licensing & The Path Forward.”

CCC’s General Counsel Catherine Zaller Rowland and a panel of international legal experts including Prof. Daniel Gervais, Bruce Rich, and Carlo Scollo Lavizarri will consider voluntary collective licensing, its significance to research in many fields, and the role it can play to drive innovation in science and technology, including AI.

Click below to listen to the latest episode of the Velocity of Content podcast.

Voluntary collective licensing came to text publishing along with advancements in photocopying technology in the 1970s, Bruce Rich explained for a June 2021 CCC Town Hall, “The Future of Collective Licensing – Copyright in the Digital Marketplace.”

“As a legal precedent, Texaco paved the way for far broader license acceptance by Fortune 100 and other corporations,” he noted. “The license programs that have since been continuously developed and implemented by CCC have rationalized copyright law; minimized repetitious fair use disputes; and enabled lawful commerce in copyrighted works to proceed in myriad market settings.”

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Author: Christopher Kenneally

Christopher Kenneally hosts CCC's Velocity of Content podcast series, which debuted in 2006 and is the longest continuously running podcast covering the publishing industry. As CCC's Senior Director, Marketing, he is responsible for organizing and hosting programs that address the business needs of all stakeholders in publishing and research. His reporting has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, The Independent (London), WBUR-FM, NPR, and WGBH-TV.
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