Her advice to fellow authors: “Behave as if the law were more sensible than it is. Live in the world as you would like it to be, in hopes that the world will come around.”
Litman is an adviser for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Copyright, a past trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA, a past chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Intellectual Property, and past member of the Future of Music Coalition’s advisory council.
She will discuss her open access publishing phone number library experience and her take on copyright law with Brewster Kahle at a free online book talk April 20. Register here.
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AI@IA — Extracting Words Sung on 100 year-old 78rpm records
A post in the series about how the Internet Archive is using AI to help build the library.
Freely available Artificial Intelligence tools are now able to extract words sung on 78rpm records. The results may not be full lyrics, but we hope it can help browsing, searching, and researching.
Whisper is an open source tool from OpenAI “that approaches human level robustness and accuracy on English speech recognition.” We were surprised how far it could get with recognizing spoken words on noisy disks and even words being sung.