Restricting Innovation: How Publisher Contracts Undermine Scholarly AI Research

"Big tech companies are one thing, but what about scholarly research? What about the large and growing number of scholars who are themselves using scholarly copyrighted content with AI tools to conduct their research? We currently face a situation in which publishers are attempting to dictate how and when researchers can do that work, even when authors’ fair use rights to use and derive new understandings from scholarship clearly allow for such uses...."