Transformation of academic sphere and legal environment: Digitalization, libraries’ digital rights and copyright on the products of generative artificial intelligence (Annual keynote paper delivered at the Ninth World Professional Forum “The Book. Culture, Education. Innovations” (“Gelendzhik-2025”))

The paper covers key aspects of educational and library technologies and information market in the digitalizing world. The author emphasizes the AI growing role, advantages and drawbacks of its application in education and publishing. He assesses the behavioral models of libraries in the context of emerging digital rights and digital transformations, including the legislative ones, and analyzes important aspects of law cases related to AI-generated products in the light of copyright and intellectual property protection.