The UK-based multinational Informa announced a partnership with Microsoft, granting the tech giant access to advanced learning content and data. This collaboration, aimed at exploring AI applications, has raised eyebrows within the academic community. Informa, the parent company of Taylor & Francis, has a vast repository of academic and technical books and journals. However, the authors of these works were neither informed nor given the opportunity to opt-out of this arrangement, sparking a wave of discontent.