Mastodawn

1/ As far as I can tell, there are no #AI tools to help determine whether an arbitrary #book is in the #PublicDomain for an arbitrary country.

I respect the best of the non-AI tools and services already doing parts of this complex job, such as the #HathiTrust Rights Determination, #Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, and the #PublicDomainReview Guide to Finding Public Domain Works Online.

But there seems to be a niche for testing to see whether AI tools might do this job better and faster.

#Copyright #ScholComm

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John Mark Ockerbloom

@petersuber "is it public domain in this context?" is a question where it's better to get a reliable answer considering the specifics of a particular case than to get a fast answer considering the probabilities in a particular corpus.

So it's a type of question I would especially *not* want to turn over to a generative AI system to decide.

But there may be some subsidiary questions involving surfacing relevant facts, that large corpus analyzers, including "AI"-based ones, might help with.