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Until now, The IPKat's policy regarding third-party uses of posts published on the blog was one of openness and inclusivity, as the blog adopted a Creative Commons non-commercial licence.
Sadly, The IPKat and Merpel have noticed an increasing number of unauthorized commercial uses of IPKat content, which were not only contrary to said licensing terms (so already infringing!) but also unfair considering that all IPKat work is done in the contributors' own spare time and is unrelated to anyone's professional obligations and functions.
In light of all this and also the widespread web scraping practices, which are now very relevant in the context of AI training, The IPKat has decided to change approach.
From today, all rights in the content published on the blog shall be reserved, including for text and data mining (TDM), AI training and similar technologies.
For all third-party content, the relevant licensing terms apply.
In accordance with our updated Policies for any questions or requests for permission to reuse the IPKat content, please get in touch at theipkat@gmail.com.
Paws off! New licensing terms for IPKat content
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This is a sad and unfortunate change. Creative Commons licenses are far more permissive and useful for those who mean to do well with the content. Will this mean that content published under CC license before this change will be denoted as such? My understanding is that once a work is licensed under CC it can not be revoked.
ReplyDeleteI fully understand the restriction imposed and it had to be done. Why should AI creators be allowed to poach on contents of the blog for free just to train their machines?
ReplyDeleteA subsidiary question, does the restriction also apply to comments published on the blog? In other words, does content mean everything published on the blog, not just the blog entries.