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• Know your rights: Rights retention and AI
  Rights retention in scholarship and related legal protections are challenging issues in open scholarship generally. With the introduction of AI, the complexity of knowing your rights as a creator, asserting them and looking for legal recourse when material is used without permission is compounded. While ambiguity and uncertainty in law comprises the large proportion of the complexity, it also requires skill and awareness in rights retention - what does it mean, how do you establish them, and how do you maintain them in third party agreements and licenses. We review what creator rights are, how to establish and retain attribution and use rights, the challenges AI presents to common rights retention techniques, and what is the current legal status to protect and defend these rights when material is used in an unauthorized way for AI training.
• Planning for publication: Funder mandates, open access options and my choices
  Funder mandates can be confusing, but they don't have to be. When you account for the mandates early on in your publishing intentions, you can avoid potential future issues. Learn about open access categories and publishing versions and how they correspond to rights retention, creative commons and self-archiving as stipulated in mandates.
• Thesis/practicum deposit: Self-archiving and future publishing implications
  See the YouTube video for a walkthrough of MSpace deposit and copyright considerations as it relates to theses.