From: "Wilcox, Matthew E." <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:55:19 +0000

Hello everyone,



The previous conversations about AI terms being added to licenses was
incredibly useful to read. I am writing to see if anyone is having success
in having publishers moderate their desired prohibitions against the use of
their products with AI tools.



We have been in discussions with a publisher wanting to insert language
into a license for a product we are trying to renew that would prohibit the
use of the product in combination with an artificial intelligence tool for
a variety of things, such as training an algorithm or developing an AI
tool, but also using any AI tool to do things like process or analyze.



We have pointed out that AI is being built into the tools researchers use,
and everything is becoming an AI tool, broadly defined. Tools like
Covidence advertise themselves as using AI, and researchers use that to
process and analyze, etc.  And Microsoft is bringing their AI tool into
things like MS Word--not to mention the very computers that we use to
access this publisher product, with the announcements of AI being added
into the MS and Apple OS roadmaps.



We have suggested language from the UC Berkeley Library sample TDM license,
which provides helpful language around limiting the prohibition to AI tool
use to create competing products, and we have suggested language preserving
fair use rights. They simply are saying “no” to all that. In spite of my
understanding that they are having to moderate their prohibitions in the EU.



So, if anyone has been successful in moderating that language, please share
what is working.



(Also, as I know that representatives from major publishers follow this
listserv, it would be great if you all would realize that license language
saying that researchers at academic institutions cannot use your product
with the AI tools that are becoming widely used in research, well, that is
not matching reality. I get you all do not want the next ChatGPT-like
product to be trained on your data without getting a piece of the profit,
but there has to be room for faculty and students to get their work done.
It is the only reason we license your products in the first place—and these
new AI tools are helping them write the papers to be published in your
journals.)



Thank you,

--matt



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Matthew Wilcox, MA, MSLIS, AHIP

(he, him, his)

Director, Edward and Barbara Netter Library

Quinnipiac University

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