A month-long series of presentations and educational events highlight ing trends in open science\, open data and open access\, in recognition of International Open Access Week.
Speaker: Dave Hansen
Executive Director
Authors Alliance
Researchers who w ant to apply AI and text-data-mining methods to large collections face a fa miliar bind: the materials they need are hard to reach\, and the two paths on offer both carry costs. Commercial AI developers gather text at scale wi th little transparency\, while publishers increasingly ask universities to license every computational use. This talk makes the case for a third path. It revisits why fair use is a built-in safeguard for research rather than a loophole\, drawing on the mass-digitization decisions that settled the po int\, and situates that doctrine within the federal open-access and informa tion policy now facing legal challenge. It then turns to Transparent Books\ , a Mellon-funded partnership among HathiTrust\, Northeastern\, and Authors Alliance that gives academic researchers a community-governed\, noncommerc ial way to build their own datasets for AI work grounded in scholarly value s.
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