The retraction of Max Planck papers looks more like Springer Nature using badly tuned copyright management tools as a proxy for information integrity tools.

One of the most exciting and fresh ISHTIP days in my experience I am Not sorry to say. Literal embodied infrastructure/knowledge of Vitor Ido, a human bridge: one of the most apposite living embodied example of agency, mediation and simultaneous translatio of languages and worlds I can think of rn

QUESTION from the floor at #CharlestonInbetween "What is the qualitative difference between scholarly communication being controlled by five AI companies and five big commercial publishers?" Response: the scale of AI, proximity to research institutions, avoidance of national regulation & control.

Excited to share this. @neel2112.bsky.social, @mariaa.bsky.social, and I analyzed 500K anonymous ChatGPT convos (shared w/ consent from WildChat) to see if people were generating fiction. We found tons of stories, fanfiction & erotica. Many users iterated on the same stories for days and weeks.

“Today and tomorrow, the European Parliament's Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) takes up the amendments that will shape its position on the EU's next research programme, the successor to Horizon Europe.”

Here’s WTF happened this week: 1/5 1️⃣ Senator Pocock has accused the government of secretly considering a TDM mining exception despite multiple statements from government saying a one is not on the table. ➡️ Read the full round-up online: elliottbledsoe.wtf/wtf-now-40/ #WTFnow #AI #copyright #TDM

NEW: Industry Minister Tim Ayres clashed with sen David Pocock over claims cabinet is considering AI copyright changes Pocock says a whistleblower says one plan would exempt AI training from copyright law to get billions in data centre investments and a new creative fund: www.abc.net.au/news/...

This week! The reason I am in Sao Paulo right now. This should be a super stimulating and interesting meeting. The programme and location matter to the scholarly conversations and directions we want to explore.

New #CalledToTheBar! @ntinatzouvala.bsky.social speaks with labour law expert Tonia Novitz about the ICJ’s new advisory opinion on the right to strike, the history of the International Labour Organization, & what the decision means for workers, employers and int'l law soundcloud.com/calledtotheb...

I spent the last few months talking to over 30 game developers about generative AI. It began as a sort of interview survey but became a pretty comprehensive collection of arguments against the technology altogether. www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so...

Must-read from my colleague, Sherine Al Shallah.

"Different science reformers have distinct core hypotheses about what has gone wrong and what is most tractable to fix." By @calebwatney.bsky.social and Jenn Gustetic

“I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.”

Two weeks to go to the ISHTIP (International Society for the History and theory of Intellectual Property) Annual Workshop! 2026 theme is "Intellectual Property and Democracy" Link to registration and draft programme:

Thank god, someone has noticed that "AI content" is generated by AI providers, duh 😂 say hello, DSA. Also consistent with ancient German autocomplete case law , remember Bettina Wulff? www.spiegel.de/internationa...

YouTube Terms of Service Allow AI Music Training, Google Says in Copyright Lawsuit

In "Reckoning with the Political Economy of AI," @cyberlyra.bsky.social, Ben Shestakofsky, Alex Taylor, and I are particularly keen to understand how the project of AI involves numerous "decoys" that misdirect critics' attention, undermining efforts to hold AI to account. arxiv.org/abs/2604.16106

Open source and commons ideals are more important than ever If you asked me to name the topic I'd class as my core academic specialisation, you'd probably guess artificial intelligence, and you'd be wrong, or at least premature, that one came later. The real answer is openness: open access, open…

This is the stuff.

The library burned on day two. The archive in November. The last university by January. New post: Before the Body, the Book — on scholasticide, cultural genocide, Heine’s prophecy, and what the destruction of Gaza’s knowledge infrastructure tells us about power blakandblack.com/2026/05/22/b...

ISHTIP goes to Sao Paulo! Registration for the 17th Annual Workshop is open, and everyone who is interested in history and theory of intellectual property is very welcome to join. Please find more details in the page below.

Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

Elsevier sues Meta over copyright infringement through large language model scraping and training: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is a very interesting development

Deceptive and misleading conduct perhaps to suggest human authorship based on user engagement? youtu.be/9pqlwQaOTvU

New article on regulation of research misconduct in Australia www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

“Cameron’s strategy was extraction …He took the unique biometric facial features of a 14-year-old Indigenous girl, ran them through an industrial production process and generated billions of dollars in profit without ever once asking her permission.That is theft.” www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

"Therein lies the déjà vu, and the risk that when 2029 arrives with a new mandate, it will find us still having the same conversations about underpowered repositories, unaffordable BPCs, insufficient Diamond capacity, and ambivalent authors." @heroicendeavour.eurosky.social on OA book policies.

New NHMRC/MRFF Open Science Policy is a bit weak in open data- but if the ambition is to keep down Australian drug prices “When trial data becomes public, it creates prior art that can block subsequent patents related to the drug.” ip.jotwell.com/clinical-tri...

Ryan Ruby's incandescent and no-truth-spared review of the reissue of Edward Said's Representations of the Intellectual: "Toward the end of his life, Edward Said liked to call himself the last Jewish intellectual. It is an excellent and, I’m tempted to say, quintessentially Jewish joke."

An important paper in which Katia describes the limitations of seeing the AI ecosystem exclusively through the lens of enclosure, & why “foreclosure” may be more illuminating. By being Everything, Everywhere, All At Once, AI manages to foreclose the ability to be understood, scrutinized & contested.

Once academics were told to upload teaching materials to digital learning platforms, universities and tech firms alike were always going to monetize it. Now AI is being used to amplify the assetization of those digital archives of academic content. codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/a...

"Funding will continue to support transitional agreements, but from 2028/29 UKRI funding will focus on fully OA publishing and will no longer be available for hybrid OA." Pretty big open access policy update from UKRI. www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

This ebook publishing and libraries report is good. It misses looking at author royalty rates for ebooks(lower than hard copies and hasn’t shifted as ebooks became the norm); or open publishing models which are increasingly platform based and vulnerable in the same way as proprietary ebooks

DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices. The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026. Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice. This is digital sovereignty being taken back

NEEDED to support Diamond OA in Oz - theconversation.com/so-much-rese... *unis recognise editor work in workload models *funding bodies incl the ARC introduce direct support for diamond *research assessment policies stop favouring international prestige *uni libraries coordinate efforts to support

"For years, a handful of Big Tech companies have used their power to gain control of the UK’s digital infrastructure, locking the government into wasteful contracts and shaping tech policy in their favour." 🗣️ ORG's @jim.killock.org.uk on our new report calling for UK Digital Sovereignty.

“if your problem with open access is that commercial publishers are hoovering up all the money, design open access interventions that specifically prevent commercial publishers from receiving your money.”

This is a comprehensive investigation of patent abuse of a Keytruda & the best I've ever seen patent data visualisation of evergreening practices and the resulting thicket until 2046 - another extra twenty years of patent monopoly right h/t @clancyny.bsky.social

The Supreme Court's Cox v. Sony Music ruling is three weeks old. It's already being cited to defend an AI video generator that produces Darth Vader on demand. Full story, up now on Copyright Lately: copyrightlately.com/cox-v-sony-m...

'As anthropologists, we have been conducting ethnographic research since 2022 on how research culture is understood and experienced within the intricate ecosystem of universities.' Smart piece this: worth a read. 1/2

UK AI policy recs by CREATe—creators (who contract with large content firms) and users (who contract with large digital platforms) need to be separated from industrial interests of AI with different policy measures; but all areas intersect around Research exceptions www.create.ac.uk/blog/2026/03...

“You might even go so far as to say that Sora was a crude, funhouse mirror-refracted vision of the world Silicon Valley is struggling to birth. Let’s not forget that most people who encountered it found it repulsive.” www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ais-aesthe...

Australia’s arts and culture cannot be produced overseas, and cannot be moved offshore. It can only be made here. Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4s0JjV2

What would you do to prove you're a real researcher who did the work? My pitch for leaving online breadcrumbs whilst we work medianwatch.netlify.app/post/breadcr...

The point about intergenerational process, training up a next generation of humans, needs a lot more attention and thought. In the short term, will publishers, like universities, turn increasingly to vivas to assess authorship?

Nancy Fraser: “On the colonisation of the lifeworld, I felt that, in essentialising the system/lifeworld distinction, Habermas masked historically specific forms of male domination and missed the transformative potential of feminist movements.”