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A journal has published an AI-generated article under my name. What to do?
The domain of the journal is not active right now, and the owner of the site seems to hide his identity.
Obviously, the entire site, mellbaou.com, is scam, and by asking this question you have just ...
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A journal has published an AI-generated article under my name. What to do?
I would say "Just ignore it or, even better, make fun of the whole story and spread it as wide as you can". Any person who knows you will then laugh with you, and anyone who does not will ...
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A journal has published an AI-generated article under my name. What to do?
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice.
Given that this journal appears to be a complete scam and is likely to be unresponsive to your requests to remove the article, I think you ...
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A journal has published an AI-generated article under my name. What to do?
Tell the journal. If they're a serious journal, they'll take down the article (and improve their processes, since those evidently failed spectacularly). You can also try to reach an editorial board ...
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A journal has published an AI-generated article under my name. What to do?
You can contact the journal with your complaint. I recommend it. You can also ask the legal department at your university/institution for advice and whether they can provide backup.
If you have a ...
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What should I consider when hiring a graphic designer to digitize my scientific plots?
First, make sure you have full rights to use and edit the image in any way you see fit as part of the contract. When my research group hires graphic designers to do work on our technical reports, we ...
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What should I consider when hiring a graphic designer to digitize my scientific plots?
As you already noted, the designer (or their company) holds the copyright for their work by default (not only in Germany but in any jurisdiction adhering to international copyright conventions). If ...
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What should I consider when hiring a graphic designer to digitize my scientific plots?
This is really lawyer territory.
Copyright (Urheberrecht) protects the author and is inalienable. So, the first question is who is the author of the images that you ask to be generated. On the one ...
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What should I consider when hiring a graphic designer to digitize my scientific plots?
Ben and Buffy gave excellent answers. Let me add something: A completely different thing to consider is the time schedule. If you ask a company / a publisher (e.g. Elsevier / Taylor and Francis, etc.) ...
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What should I consider when hiring a graphic designer to digitize my scientific plots?
It is possible for you to own the IP in the created work through an appropriate contractual agreement, but the creator will typically retain some "moral rights" at law (depending on the ...
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What should I consider when hiring a graphic designer to digitize my scientific plots?
I can only answer part of this, as I don't know the laws in Germany. In general, just a guess, is that work "done for hire" may leave copyright with the one who hires, not the artist. This ...
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