“Is AI the New Gold Rush? Discover How Copyright Licensing is Transforming the Creative Landscape!”
Publishers – primarily scientific journals — responded by creating a collective licensing organization, the non-profit Copyright Clearance Center (CCC). From its launch in 1978, the CCC organized and offered a voluntary blanket photocopying license. This “one-stop shopping” license to a large catalog of content led many companies to take CCC’s license, even before the legal necessity was tested in the courts.
One company that declined was petroleum giant Texaco. It argued that photocopying was fair use. A group of publishers sued Texaco in 1985 and, after 10 years, prevailed in a federal appeals court. The court cited CCC’s blanket license as a factor as to why Texaco’s photocopying should not be considered fair use. AI companies may find themselves in analogous situations if courts should rule similarly on fair use in AI systems.
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