#GLAMWiki2025: Wikimedia as essential digital infrastructure and trusted tools for cultural institutions. @culturedoug.bsky.social will showcase CommonsDB as part of our copyright infrastructure work—connecting cultural memory with digital commons. Register by Sep 30: w.wiki/D5Xq

ultra-nano version for people running to catch a bus #Icepops25

The slides of my Icepops talk are now online at my website: douglasmccarthy.com/presentations/ Thanks to my fellow speakers and everyone who attended yesterday, it was a brilliant day (and night 🎤). Until next time, @jsecker.bsky.social!

📣 Join us at #GLAMWiki2025 in Lisbon (Oct 30-Nov 1) Explore resilience in cultural heritage with workshops and expert sessions, including @culturedoug.bsky.social presenting the CommonsDB registry for Wikimedians and cultural institutions. Register by Sep 30: w.wiki/D5Xq

En route to Manchester 🚄 ✈️ to attend the 6th edition of Icepops, the copyright festival with a smile on its face. I'll present new research on museums, copyright and the public domain. 🌻 There will be sunflowers, there will be memes. Slides to follow. #Icepops2025 #OpenGLAM #Museums #Copyright

Q. How was your summer? A.

don’t be a bad Bohemian

Just discovered that www.culturegrid.org.uk redirects to museumdata.uk. Now feeling centuries old.

Worth reading if you're engaged with this topic. blog.cloudflare.com/control-cont... [GLAM-E Lab bat-signal >> @michaelweinberg.org @andeewallace.bsky.social]

Me: 🥵 Cat: You think YOU'RE hot?

me: there’s nothing worse than opening a blank document microsoft word: hold my beer

The first part of CommonsDB Feasibility Study—by @paulk.bsky.social, @culturedoug.bsky.social, @posth.me, @jpquintais.bsky.social, @theflyinglawyer.bsky.social, and Thomas Margon—anticipates launching the first public version of the registry after summer. Download: openfuture.eu/publication/...

En garde, I’ll let you try my Wu-Tang style

AI crawlers generate so much traffic that some web sites are struggling to stay online. What can be done?

adding UTF-8 encoding errors to the list of things that'll survive the apocalypse

📆 Workshop Tomorrow Jun 06, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM EDT Join @culturedoug.bsky.social and other experts in an online workshop hosted by the Open Copyright Education Advisory Network (OCEAN) to explore the new Open GLAM Toolkit for implementing open access policies: www.oceancopyright.org/event-detail...

🛠️ Discover the new Open GLAM Toolkit for implementing open access policies. Join @culturedoug.bsky.social and other experts in a workshop hosted by the Open Copyright Education Advisory Network (OCEAN) to explore this resource. Register for the June 6 event: www.oceancopyright.org/event-detail...

‪FYI @drkatieturner.bsky.social‬ @culturedoug.bsky.social list of Open Access GLAM collections (most comprehensive list out there, I believe.)

Excellent new piece by @culturedoug.bsky.social on the wrongs of public museums restricting access to images: "...by throttling access to digital reproductions, museums limit the range of perspectives and narratives that can be shared about art and history..." douglasmccarthy.com/2025/04/muse...

1889 illustrator complains about photography: “"Instantaneous photography is nuisance” said an artist, whose business is to draw cuts for the magazines and newspapers.”

digitalpreservation-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/knitting-thr... ❤️

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Excellent piece by @culturedoug.bsky.social here about how the heritage institutions that are supposed to be safeguarding our cultural commons are acting more like landowners.

NEW 🐣 The editors of the Italian open access journal Engramma invited me to contribute an article for a special issue on copyleft and internet piracy. 'Museums and the Enclosure of the Public Domain in the Digital Age' is now online at engramma.it/eOS/index.ph... #museums #copyright #publicdomain

🔔 Our March newsletter is out. We write about the new #CommonsDB initiative, welcome our new colleague @adityaxsingh.bsky.social, and update you on our copyright and public digital infrastructure work. Subscribe to get future issues in your inbox: mailchi.mp/openfuture/d...

🚀 The first #CommonsDB newsletter features insights from @paulk.bsky.social and @posth.me on building a public registry for Public Domain and openly licensed works. 📬 Don’t miss out—subscribe to get the next issue delivered straight to your inbox: www.commonsdb.org/blog/commons...

🆕 Check out CommonsDB, an @ec.europa.eu-funded project creating a prototype registry for public domain and open-licensed works. We are working with @liccium.com, @europeana.bsky.social, @wikimediase.bsky.social and @ivir-uva.bsky.social to strengthen #DigitalCommons. openfuture.eu/blog/open-fu...

Job opening: A wonderful opportunity to work at the Rijksmuseum with a team that is on the forefront of making cultural heritage open, accessible, and reusable. Head, Collection IT (FT, hybrid, Salary: €4,379/month - €6,056/month)

The European Copyright Society (ECS) has published its Opinion on copyright and generative AI: copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/02/07/e...

We're delighted to welcome @culturedoug.bsky.social to Open Future as our Senior Open Content Specialist. He will lead our CommonsDB project, developing an EU Registry of Public Domain and open-licensed works. openfuture.eu/blog/meet-do... #OpenGLAM #DigitalCommons #PublicDigitalInfrastructure

it’s the weekend

I’m Francesco Fragomeni, a photographic artist & researcher specializing in 19th century photographic processes with a focus on daguerreotype, Bayard direct positive, calotype and salted paper, collodion variations, and albumen. I also build and restore cameras. I share about my work and process.

Hi👋we're new here! ☺️ If you don't know #Europeana, here is some info below to get to know us better! 🎨 Explore Europe's digitised #CulturalHeritage collections ➡️https://www.europeana.eu 🏛️Do you work in, with, or around digital #CulturalHeritage? Discover helpful resources➡️https://pro.europeana.eu

Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...

@edzitron.com vibes

Just found this 2023 story. What a time to have lived.

Now online at douglasmccarthy.com/presentations/ Thanks @paulmelloncentr.bsky.social for hosting a great event.

Getting back on the horse. Slides to follow. #copyright #licensing #UK #museums #openaccess #openGLAM

M.R. James version: After photographing the manuscript, the scholar is tormented by the 12th century monk and dies gruesomely.

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁 We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

🎉 Join the 2025 #PublicDomain celebrations on January 9! @paulk.bsky.social and @posth.me will present the upcoming EU Repository of PD and open-licensed works, alongside experts from @communia.bsky.social @creativecommons.bsky.social and other leading voices. Program: meemoo.be/en/training-...

Agentic AI, 1985

Here's the first ep of our week-long coverage of this year's CES. I'm joined by @iwriteok.bsky.social @hungrybowtie.bsky.social @bigblackjacobin.bsky.social to talk about awful AI video, useless tech products, and the end of new things. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

great to see @glynmoody.bsky.social covering @culturedoug.bsky.social's work on how poorly (some) UK cultural institutions are complying with laws that clarify that copies of public domain works are . . . also in the public domain www.techdirt.com/2024/12/19/c...

New Report by our colleagues Kris Erickson and Felix Rodriguez Perez which explore how Technological Protection Measures (TPMs) delay the preservation of historical video games, creating significant challenges for education, research, and cultural heritage 🤖

I'm reusing this image for the purpose of sighing in frustration, rolling my eyes & then say so on social media. Why digitise type specimens if the images can't be reused openly? "Personal study" is of no use to me. BTW digitisation was funded by the Darwin initiative, a UK Govt scheme. #Copyright

Love that a funder has set up a 'boring fund' to fund the boring stuff such as maintaining existing technology that no one ever funds but is essential for impact. (Even better - just fund core costs) wildlabs.net/funding-oppo... (HT Tom Steinberg who I don't think is here yet)

Proud to be part of the GLAM-E Lab crew and excited to hear what you think and do with these new resources.