Monday Morning Coffee – 4 September 2023

by Nate Hoffelder

After a decade of running The Digital Reader, Nate is a veteran web publisher with experience in design, maintenance, recovery, and troubleshooting. What little he doesn't know, he can learn.

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Morning Coffee

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September 4, 2023

Here are a few stories to read this morning.

Maria Bustillos has an absolutely nuts take on the Internet Archive piracy lawsuit.
An appeals court has defanged the USA copyright Office’s rule requiring publishers to provide copies of their books to the Library of Congress.
An Iowa school district used ChatGPT to decide which books to remove for “containing a description or depiction of a sex act”.
It is wonderfully ironic that Wes Anderson thinks a work should not be changed once published given that this almost always happens in movie adaptations.
The USA Copyright Office is requesting comments and feedback on AI policy as it relates to copyright.

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