Because these issues are complex, and because the Library's response can be fairly technical regarding the law, we have drafted a blog post that explains at a higher level what the Copyright Office is studying, and what the Library wants the Office to consider in any rulemaking that might affect research.

You'll find that the Library's comment does not address the use of generative AI to write term papers (!!!) but instead the narrow issue of preserving the fair use right of scholars to use copyright-protected materials when training artificial intelligence, such as for text and data mining. If that fair use right is restricted, research will suffer and become biased, and from the Library's perspective: it will become increasingly difficult and far more expensive to license content for our scholars to use in text and data mining.

The Copyright Office has already received nearly 9,000 comments from all sorts of stakeholders on these issues. We are honored to make scholars' and the Library's voice heard, and hope that our thoughtful approach will have impact as the Copyright Office begins to sift through all of the submissions. 

We will keep you posted on anything that unfolds. As we note in the blog post, if you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail us at [log in to unmask].

Thank you,

Tim & Rachael
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