Webinar Recording: 2026 Copyrighted Content Usage Trends: How AI Workflows Are Driving Content

Yesterday the Copyright Clearance Center hosted a LinkedIn event entitled, "2026 Copyrighted Content Usage Trends: How AI Workflows Are Driving Content."  I had not considered what AI is doing to the velocity on content, which then impacts copyright compliance. It was a worthwhile webinar and one worth watching if your organization is using AI as it creates, ingests, and/or disseminates content.

 

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Description: Employees are sharing content faster than ever, and now AI is consuming it too. 

Join us...for an exclusive first look at the results of the 2026 Copyrighted Content Usage Trends Report. In a conversation moderated by CCC’s VP & Managing Director Lauren Tulloch, SVP of Outsell Intelligence Grant Hunter and CCC Legal Advisor Roanie Levy will explore the results and discuss how executives can translate these insights into action.

AI has fundamentally changed how copyrighted content moves through the enterprise. Third-party content is no longer just shared between colleagues—it is regularly fed into AI tools for a variety of employee tasks.

Since 2007, CCC and Outsell have tracked the velocity of content: how often professionals share published material, with how many people, and through which channels. The 2025 study added its first AI questions, and the findings warranted a closer look. The 2026 study provides new data on how third-party content enters AI workflows, how often the outputs are shared, and with whom, offering a benchmark for leaders examining their own enterprise practices. 

Update on training offered by the Creative Commons

Below is text from Shanna Hollich, who is Senior Manager, Learning and Training for the Creative Commons.

 

JCLC 2026 Early Bird Registration has been extended to August 31st!

JCLC is a conference for everyone to enjoy! Held every four years, this national gathering is a collaborative effort organized by AILA, APAL, BCALA, CALA, and REFORMA. This year, we're excited to mark the 5th iteration of the conference. We hope to see you there!

Date and Location of the Conference:

The 5^th national Joint Conference of Librarians of Color will be held October 7-11, 2026, at the Spokane Convention Center in Spokane, Washington.

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Article: Judge approves a $1.5B Anthropic settlement over pirated books used to train the Claude chatbot

According to the Associates Press, "A federal judge has approved a $1.5 billion copyright settlement in which artificial intelligence company Anthropic will pay thousands of authors about $3,000 per book after using pirated copies of their works to train its Claude chatbot." 

While this is a win for the authors, commenters note that companies have been training their AI systems on other data where creators/owners have not been compensated. This reminds me of the era when Google, Microsoft, and others were gobbling up books and other texts to train their search engines. Did all creators receive compensation then? Will all creators receive compensation now? 

Reposting about Widerstand Consulting Resources Being in the Public Domain

I am posting again about Widerstand Consulting's anti-racism resources being available in the public domain.  We are doing this so that others can benefit from our work as we close the organization. All of these resources can be used by any organization or group as they work to become more anti-racist. These resources (12 in total) are available in the Internet Archive and in this Google Drive. You can download what interests you. Please tell your colleagues about this and encourage them to use our materials.

What do I mean that these can be used by anyone? We have placed a license on each of the documents which denotes that they are now part of the public domain. This enables you to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, with no conditions. We have done this so what we have learned will continue.

If you are unaware of what the Internet Archive is, it was begun in 1996 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit that is a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. The Internet Archive contains webpages, newspapers, audio, video, books, images, and software programs. Like a paper library, the Internet Archive provides free access to researchers, historians, scholars, people with print disabilities, and the general public. Today the Internet Archive contains more than 1 trillion items, which now includes materials from Widerstand.

I have been involved with Widerstand for several years and am disheartened to see that the focus on DEIA has decreased in the U.S. as priorities have shifted. This work does have its ebb and flows, and so I look forward to when organizations are again eager to eliminate systemic barriers in their structure. In my sadness as Widerstand closes, I am also overjoyed that our documents may help others continue this work. May these documents become part of the building blocks for the future.