November has brought with it darker evenings and rather wetter days and nights, at least in the UK. In the Romanian calendar, November is classed as brumar the big brother of brumărel which was October, meaning hoarfrost.

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November tends to be the Christmas anticipation month. However, before all that Romanians celebrate two important days: 30th November is St Andrew’s Day which is a public holiday in Romania, as well as Scotland and Barbados. The 1st December is Romania’s National Day, which is a day of celebration for most Romanian’s, and is a Bank Holiday.

Autumn on Transylvanian hills, Romania, image licensed from Adobe Stock

This month’s reads are a combination of more AI news, sustainability news (Loughborough University is currently celebrating Sustainability Week with many events planned) but also regular copyright news from around the world.

Enjoy!

AI Competencies for Academic Library Workers

Why Right-Wing Outlets Attacked Wikipedia After Charlie Kirk’s Shooting

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’

Are the European TDM Exceptions Applicable to GenAI Training? Despite the Three-Step Test?

Dog in Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’ was copied from widely available book, suggests new research

Italy updates its copyright law to address AI

Beyond the Exception: Licensing, Access, and the Realities of Text and Data Mining in the US, UK, and Singapore

Japan ermahnt OpenAI wegen Urheberrechtsverstößen KI-generierter Anime-Videos [German article]

Wild honeybees now officially listed as endangered in the EU

e-Books: Evidence and Analysis of e-Lending Markets in Europe. Competition Law and Copyright Law Perspectives.

Designing for people with limited English

Moka magic: how IP fuels your morning coffee ritual

AI and education: guidance for policy-makers

Damien Hirst’s 200-year plan: copyright’s uneasy role in the arts

Plagiarism, Copyright, and AI

Understanding technology regulation through history: insights from the legal history of the printing press and copyright in early modern England 

Interlibrary loans, subscriptions and copyright in the UK academic library sector

‘Hallucinated’ cases are affecting lawyers’ careers – they need to be trained to use AI

Albanese Government to ensure Australia is prepared for future copyright challenges emerging from AI [Australian News]

Denmark Leads EU Push to Copyright Faces in Fight Against Deepfakes

Creative works can no longer be mined by AI without consent in Australia [Australia]

Social media sucks, but what’s the alternative?

In Grok we don’t trust: academics assess Elon Musk’s AI-powered encyclopedia

Copyright’s (extended) reality check: Challenges for copyright enforcement in virtual worlds

Navigating Uncertainty: Legal Risk Awareness and Management in European Museums

How AI exposes the moral hypocrisy of academic publishing

arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated ‘Research’ Papers

Getty Images v Stability AI: A landmark High Court ruling on AI, copyright, and trade marks

7 Common Copyright Pitfalls in GenAI Workflows

Universal Music went from suing an AI company to partnering with it. What will it mean for artists?

ChatGPT darf nicht ohne Weiteres Songtexte wiedergeben [Article in German about GEMAs win against OpenAI]

People thrive on good connections, so does wildlife

Munich AI ruling could reshape EU interpretation of copyright

Peles Castle, Sinaia, Prahova County, Romania: Famous Neo-Renaissance castle in autumn colours, at the base of the Carpathian Mountains, Europe, image licensed from Adobe Stock

We hope you enjoyed these reads and they have spurred some conversations in your teams. The images chosen for this blog post show Romania in autumn, but they are also tied in with Sustainability Week. If you have the possibility, why not go out in nature (when it stops raining) and enjoy the final moments of autumn.

Autumn Landscape of Fagaras Mountains, Carpathians, Romania, image licensed from Adobe Stock