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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, January 9, 2026 7:43:57 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list <eril-l@lists.eril-l.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Eril-l] AI and electronic resources</font>
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This is an interesting question, I hadn't thought about it, but is it really our responsibility? </div>
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I mean if you put up some kind of pop-up that certainly doesn't prevent them from doing it anyway. And I don't see how you would hit all the places they could access an article from - for us, once they have signed in to the system they could access them from
LibGuides, Google Scholar, through a Primo search, Browzine, LibKey Nomad, and probably more places. And for us if they are already on campus, for the most part they are automatically authenticated and don't have to sign in.</div>
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In theory someone could check out a print book and scan and upload all the contents from that into an AI platform. That wouldn't be legal either, but we couldn't really know that they did it or prevent it. </div>
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At what point would the liability fall on the student or other user rather than the library? Essentially once the user accesses a website they are agreeing to the terms of that website, so shouldn't the databases post thost terms - JSTOR has a popup when you
download an article that says: "Your use of JSTOR indicates your acceptance of the
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Privacy Policy</span>."</div>
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It seems like the best you could do is place a notice somewhere on your website near the database similar to posting a copyright notice near a copy machine or scanner saying not to do it. </div>
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<div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Susan R. Barber</span><br style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 1:53 PM Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list via Eril-l <<a href="mailto:eril-l@lists.eril-l.org">eril-l@lists.eril-l.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif">Recently our staff were discussing the legal implications of students uploading content from our electronic resources into outside AI platforms. <span> </span>While this violates copyright it will likely also violate our licensing
agreements with vendors. <span> </span>Our staff attorney suggested adding a popup box that users would need to click to acknowledge that they will not do it somewhere on our website for liability purposes. <span> </span>We use the Springshare/Libguide platform
for our website and resources. <span> </span>We know that we can’t put a popup or block in all the places online that students click through to get to our resources. <span> </span>How are other libraries managing this issue?</font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif">Replies on or off list would be appreciated.</font></p>
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<font face="arial, sans-serif">Sincerely,</font></p>
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<div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Kathleen M. Tobolewski, MLS</font></div>
<font face="arial, sans-serif">Metadata and E-Resource Management Librarian</font>
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