• Guidance on issues (e.g., dual #publication, duplicate publication, #retractions, #authorship, #ConflictsOfInterest, #plagiarism, #confidentiality): https://publicationethics.org/guidance #COPE (3/4)

@gabrielesvelto since "#AI" is not a person, it cannot have #Authorship and thus not create #copyright|able works.

• That's literally how it works in #Germany!

Denial of Copyright to AI 'Author' Affirmed by D.C. Circuit https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ip-law/human-authorship-required-to-register-copyright-d-c-cir-rules #copyright #AI #art #authorship

Do AI robo-authors qualify for copyright? It's still no, says appeals court https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/appeals_court_says_ai_authors/ #copyright #authorship #AI #art

Update, on the #CDC order directing staffers to retract pending journal articles that use now-prohibited terms like #transgender and #immigrant (earlier in this thread) …

Bravo to the #BMJ (@bmj_latest) for calling this order "sinister and ludicrous."
https://www.bmj.com/content/388/bmj.r253

"This is not how it works. Medically relevant terminology and inclusive language follow evidence based reporting standards or are matters of individual journal style and policy. They do not follow political orders. Similarly, co-authors cannot simply scrub themselves from articles. Authorship gives credit and accountability for the work, and an article’s list of authors does not ghost contributors. If authors wish to withdraw submissions under review at a journal, this process is feasible should all of their co-authors agree. However, if somebody who merits inclusion in the authorship group of an article requests to be removed, even with the approval of the co-authors, this is a breach of publication ethics."

“They even claim to have democratized #democracy, and indeed, they may well have democratized it all the way to #authoritarianism. So, when Big Tech says “democratization,” it is always a #grift, but it is still worth understanding how the rhetorical meaning has shifted in reference to #authorship and #creative work."

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#BigTech #democratization #progressive #egalitarian #oligarchs

https://illusionofmore.com/u-s-copyright-law-not-big-tech-democratized-authorship/

@VeroniqueB99

If it's an act of interesting creation, worth mentioning widely, and especially in a school, I hope permission was sought. Rather than citing an anonymous student, I would hope that person was offered the opportunity to be named.

Perhaps they didn't want to be named, which is fine, but then just saying so would be good. That gives the anonymous person, when they see it spreading around, the ability to disagree about being asked or about that being their answer.

Not mentioning authorship makes it more deniable, like maybe it was an oversight, which is why we as a community should request authorship information even if the answer is "this space intentionally left blank" for any of a variety of reasons.

Too much meme stuff doesn't credit content creators, and that will only get worse with AI, whose stock in trade is uncredited plagiarism. Teachers may not be able to stop the march of AI, but they can still teach and to demonstrate good manners and ethical behavior.

#teachers #teaching #memes #education #citations #plagiarism #authorship #writing #WritingCommunity #ethics

h/t @dabeaz

@sigmasternchen Last time I checked "#AI" output is inherently #uncopyright-able as #copyright requires #authorship and only natural persons can legally be authors...