The GLAM-E Lab has just won! Congratulations to all previous and current students led by @andeewallace.bsky.social who have been involved, as well as all the partner organisations.👏 @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @rammuseum.bsky.social gw4.ac.uk/news/gw4-ope...

What a depressing irony that my #Burningthebooks & seven of my scholarly articles have been pirated by Meta for LibGen. We are experimenting with AI @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social using only public-domain materials. This industry needs to be regulated! www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

New report calls for return of human remains – but UK museums lack the resources to act

For those just learning about LibGen because of the reporting on Meta and other companies training LLMs on pirated books, I’d highly recommend the book Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (open access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...)

GLAM-E Lab survey on how online collections and websites are being impacted by activity from AI training bots... to understand if this is a widespread phenomenon and if it is having technical, financial, or other impacts on institutions.

🚀 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...

They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.

The DC Circuit's decision in Thaler v. Perlmutter is out, ruling that copyright law requires that authors be human, not AI, reasoning to this conclusion from the structure of the copyright statute (e.g., duration is based on the lifetime of the author) media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...

‘Of course, the problem is not that AI-generated content exists. It is that it increasingly looks like knowledge while bypassing the very mechanisms that give knowledge its legitimacy.’ jeppestricker.substack.com/p/the-synthe...

Do me a quick favor? 1. Got to settings 2. Go to accessibility 3. Please tick the box that requires you to add alt text before you can post images A lot of folks would really appreciate it & it's good writing practice 🙏

The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.

Effective and creative data visualization in the form of a full page piece in the WaPo today to show how Trump/Musk are dismantling government.

Can't be doom and gloom all the time! Race + IP 2025: Abolitionist Futures is happening on April 17th-19th. You've still got two days to send us your abstract. The CFP is available here: raceipconference.org. We hope you'll join us!

Our latest report explores 20 years of EU policies supporting #digitalcommons and the shift from open access to collective governance of key digital infrastructures. 🛋️ Read more here: openfuture.eu/publication/... Cc: @ngicommons.bsky.social @jankrewer.bsky.social

As AI systems grow more efficient, will they reduce environmental impacts —or make them worse? Our new paper with @strubell.bsky.social and Kate Crawford explores how 𝗝𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗻𝘀’ 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘅 applies to AI, showing that efficiency gains alone won’t lead to sustainability 🌎 arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16548

#EPDD25 Merete Sanderhoff gives a shout out to @andeewallace.bsky.social 's excellent 3D models & rights management report pro.europeana.eu/post/3d-mode...

Announcement also at www.glamelab.org/products/roy... if you feel there's too much video news in the world already…

Exeter's GLAM-E Lab and Royal Albert Memorial Museum announce a new collaboration and open access strategy. Video announcement at youtu.be/4s6aG2jHPIQ