We’re pleased to share a draft of our paper, “Contractual Override: How Private Contracts Undermine the Goals of the Copyright Act for Libraries and Researchers, and What We Can Do About It”. We are especially grateful to @rachaelgs.bsky.social for co-authoring this paper with us.

Breaking quorum is permitted by the Texas Constitution. If there is a chance of saving the remnants of representative democracy we will have to do some things. Texas Dems are doing some things. Stand with them. Here’s a very good piece by @lonestarleft.com. www.lonestarleft.com/p/we-will-no...

They say you need a good elevator pitch to run for office. Well, here's mine. My name is Taylor Wettach, and I'm a 7th-generation Iowan. I quit my job as a lawyer after my law firm caved to Trump. Now, I'm running for Congress to flip Iowa's 1st and take back the House.

Lots to discuss about fair use, computational research, and AI! Thursday, I'll present remotely at "Born-Digital Collections, Archives, and Memory" conference held in London. Topic: copyright, contracts, privacy, & ethics in cross-border computational research. www.sas.ac.uk/news-events/... #BDCAM25

Speaking tomorrow to Univ. of Reading & next week at Virginia Tech Univ. Libraries "Center for Digital Research & Scholarship Distinguished Lecture Series" re: Licensing to Preserve Fair Uses in an AI World. You can register to attend (free). calendar.lib.vt.edu/event/14353938

seems like it is a big deal that the unifying ideology of the doge team is neo nazism

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

"Finally! A Licensing Guide to Help Libraries Protect Fair Use Rights in the Digital Age" Spoiler alert: I co-wrote it. www.arl.org/blog/finally...

Four years ago today, Tottenham Hotspur played at Marine FC in the FA Cup. And four years ago today Cartilage Free Captain got their logo on the back of Marine's shorts for the match.

Check out the recording of our project update at the @cni-org.bsky.social Fall 2024 meeting: "Supporting Computational Research Through Licensing: An A-Z Licensing Guidebook for Libraries" www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-Rg... @rachaelgs.bsky.social @arlnews.bsky.social @ucberkeleylibrary.bsky.social

Joe Biden was right to pardon his son. Trump pardoned his criminal co-conspirators. He's gonna pardon terrorists. ENTIRELY MISS ME with your dumb arguments about how Democrats must follow rules Republicans ignore. My latest in @thenation.com

I will be at CNI next week discussing our forthcoming licensing guidebook (being published by the Association of Research Libraries). We'll be focusing on how the guidebook helps libraries license content in ways that protect computational research, AI training, and other fair uses.

Article I co-authored in @pnas.org demonstrating Hollywood films getting more diverse. Funded by @mellonfoundation.bsky.social, research possible only b/c we helped @authorsalliance.bsky.social change copyright regs governing digital locks in computational research news.berkeley.edu/2024/11/04/w...

New piece I co-authored on protecting AI training rights for scholars

this is literally the future republicans want: public funds for segregation academies and religious private schools that actively discriminate against LGBT students or students with special needs

The truth of Covid in the US, namely that we had refrigerator trucks full of bodies driving around New York City and buried people three deep and more than .5% of all people over 65 *just died* while the president encouraged his idiot minions to beat up old Korean ladies, is too much for many people