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<p class="MsoNormal">Yeah, I tend to agree. We have a library database usage policy page on our website where we would put information like this. I can appreciate the intent to safeguard the use of our resources as students are not always mindful of the implications
of their actions, but attempting to hit every access point doesn’t seem tenable to me.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">This is an interesting question, I hadn't thought about it, but is it really our responsibility? <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">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
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">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 Terms & Conditions of Use and the Privacy Policy."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Paul and Rosemary Trible Library<br>
Christopher Newport University<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Fri, Jan 9, 2026 at 1:53<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>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:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Recently our staff were discussing the legal implications of students uploading content from our electronic resources into outside AI
platforms. While this violates copyright it will likely also violate our licensing agreements with vendors. 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. We use the Springshare/Libguide platform for our website and resources. 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. How are other libraries managing this issue?</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:13.8pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Replies on or off list would be appreciated.</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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