{"id":489,"date":"2025-01-16T12:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-16T11:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/?p=489"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:46:11","slug":"january-copyright-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/2025\/01\/january-copyright-reads\/","title":{"rendered":"January Copyright Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_499689163-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[489]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"811\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_499689163-1024x811.jpg\" alt=\"AI generated image of a cat reading a newspaper called Cat News\" class=\"wp-image-490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_499689163-1024x811.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_499689163-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_499689163-768x608.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_499689163-1536x1216.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_499689163-2048x1621.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy New Year and welcome to this month&#8217;s copyright reads. We will be looking at the Public Domain Day 2025, copyright trials, Meta and TikTok&#8217;s woes, AI and copyright and intangible cultural heritage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Happy reading! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.law.duke.edu\/cspd\/publicdomainday\/2025\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">Public Domain Day 2025<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2025\/1\/3\/24334946\/meta-ai-profiles-instagram-facebook-bots?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">Meta\u2019s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jiplp\/advance-article\/doi\/10.1093\/jiplp\/jpae122\/7945891?searchresult=1\">IP is back in fashion or, rather, fashion is back in IP!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/jiplp\/jpae102\">Copyright and AI training data\u2014transparency to the rescue?<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com\/2025\/01\/09\/the-dubious-utilitarian-argument-for-granting-copyright-in-ai-generated-works\/\">The dubious utilitarian argument for granting copyright in AI-generated works<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/copyrightlately.com\/gregorini-apple-copyright-trial\/\">\u2018Servant\u2019 Copyright Trial Begins for Apple, Shyamalan: What to Know<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/jwip.12343\">The elephant in the room of EU copyright originality: Time to unpack and harmonize the essential requirement of copyright<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grahamlovelace.substack.com\/p\/uk-governments-copyright-overhaul\">UK government&#8217;s copyright overhaul &#8216;will enable artistic vandalism&#8217; | Meta&#8217;s Zuckerberg allegedly approved AI training on pirated books | Apple pledges AI update, but journalists want it withdrawn<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.create.ac.uk\/blog\/2024\/12\/20\/create_tartan_intangible_cultural_heritage\/\">The Lore of the CREATe Tartan and Contemporary Developments in Intangible Cultural Heritage Law<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.internetsociety.org\/blog\/2025\/01\/the-global-impact-of-a-us-tiktok-ban\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">The Global Impact of a US TikTok Ban\u00a0<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2025\/01\/14\/tiktok-refugees-rednote-censorship\/?utm_source=substack&amp;utm_medium=email\">\u2018TikTok refugees\u2019 flock to another (heavily censored) Chinese app<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_1046286334-scaled.jpeg\" rel=\"lightbox[489]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_1046286334-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"AI generated image of three cats sitting in the back of a car reading books\" class=\"wp-image-491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_1046286334-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_1046286334-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_1046286334-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_1046286334-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/01\/AdobeStock_1046286334-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year and welcome to this month&#8217;s copyright reads. 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Public Domain Day 2025 Meta\u2019s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well IP is back in fashion or, rather, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":756,"featured_media":492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"lboro_blog_alternative_thumbnail_image":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[85,114],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-copyright","tag-copyright","tag-interesting-reads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/756"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":494,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/494"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lboro.ac.uk\/rdm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}