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Top EU court’s advisor says manipulating transient data is not copyright infringement
One of the reasons that today’s copyright is such a bad fit for the modern digital world is that its roots lie deep in 18th-century law and analogue objects like books. This fact has created a kind of legislative drag that means copyright is always decades behind the latest technological developments. A case in point is the phenomenon of “cheating” in video games. Despite the negative […]
#adBlockers #advocateGeneral #analogue #cheating #cjeu #computerGames #creativity #datelDesignAndDevelopment #digital #maciejSzpunar #sonyComputerEntertainment #transientData #videogames
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Another sign that gold open access was a mistake, and that diamond open access is the future
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is one of the most influential funding bodies in the world. According to one ranking, it is the second largest charitable foundation, and as of 31 December 2023 had an endowment of around $75.2 billion. That makes a shift in its publishing policy hugely important.
An article in Chemical & Engineering […]
#apcs #coalitionS #diamondOa #funding #gatesFoundation #goldOa #peerReview #planS #preprints #publishers #unesco #verixiv
https://walledculture.org/another-sign-that-gold-open-access-was-a-mistake-and-that-diamond-open-access-is-the-future/
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The link tax’s failure to deliver meaningful benefits is a lesson for the copyright industry
It seems so long ago that people were trying to stop the worst aspects of the EU Copyright Directive. It was quite a battle, as Chapter 6 of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) recounts in detail. The final legislation was passed in March 2019, but it is important not simply to accept what happened and move on. The copyright industry used many […]
#article15 #copybuzz #euCopyrightDirective #genai #generativeAi #germany #googleTax #journalists #linkTax #lobbyists #newspapers #publishers
https://walledculture.org/the-link-taxs-failure-to-deliver-meaningful-benefits-is-a-lesson-for-the-copyright-industry/
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OCLC says “what is known must be shared”, but sues Anna’s Archive to stop it sharing knowledge
Back in March, Walled Culture wrote about the terrible job that academic publishers are doing in terms of creating backups of the articles they publish. We also mentioned there two large-scale archives that are trying to help, Sci-Hub and Anna’s Archive. Legal action by publishers against the former seems to have led to a halt to new items being added to its […]
#annaSArchive #backups #lawsuit #libraries #oclc #publishers #sciHub #storage #worldcat
https://walledculture.org/oclc-says-what-is-known-must-be-shared-but-sues-annas-archive-to-stop-it-sharing-knowledge/
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Sharing material used to be the norm for newspapers, and should be for LLMs
Even though parents insist that it is good and right to share things, the copyright world has succeeded in establishing the contrary as the norm. Now, sharing is deemed a bad, possibly illegal thing. But it was not always thus, as a fascinating speech by Ryan Cordell, Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences and Department of English at the […]
#ai #children #ecosystem #linkTaxes #llms #newspapers #panic #parents #reUse #selections
https://walledculture.org/sharing-material-used-to-be-the-norm-for-newspapers-and-should-be-for-llms/
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Yet more examples of how copyright destroys culture rather than driving it [Updated]
One of the supposed justifications for the intellectual monopoly called copyright is that it drives creativity and culture. In the last few weeks alone we have had multiple demonstrations of why the opposite is true: copyright destroys culture, and not by accident, but wilfully. For example, the MTVNews.com site, along with its sister site CMT.com, has just been […]
#archive #backups #creativity #culture #intellectualMonopoly #InternetArchive #mtv #publishers
https://walledculture.org/yet-more-examples-of-how-copyright-destroys-culture-rather-than-driving-it/
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A rare copyright win for the public – but a small one, only in Canada, and possibly temporary
It is extraordinary that within the copyright world it is accepted dogma that legal protections for this intellectual monopoly should always get stronger – creating a kind of copyright ratchet. One of the manifestations of this belief was the WIPO Copyright Treaty, signed in 1996, which extended copyright in important ways. A key element was the prohibition of any […]
#antiCircumvention #canada #digitalLocks #dmca #DRM #eu #fairDealing #fairUse #informationSocietyDirective #michaelGeist #wipo
https://walledculture.org/a-rare-copyright-win-for-the-public-but-a-small-one-only-in-canada-and-possibly-temporary/
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How to make money by acknowledging the difference between analogue and digital
One of the central ideas of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is that there is a fundamental difference between analogue and digital, and that copyright fails to recognise that. Instead, it seeks to impose what is an inherently analogue approach based on scarcity to the online world where abundance is the norm. The very different dynamics in […]
#analogue #clickbait #digital #highEnd #luxury #magazines #niche #patrons #publishing #sponsors #trueFan
https://walledculture.org/how-to-make-money-by-acknowledging-the-difference-between-analogue-and-digital/
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We are losing vast swathes of our digital past, and copyright stops us saving it
It is hard to imagine the world without the Web. Collectively, we routinely access billions of Web pages without thinking about it. But we often take it for granted that the material we want to access will be there, both now and in the future. We all hit the dreaded “404 not found” error from time to time, but merely pass on to other pages. What we tend to ignore […]
#BrewsterKahle #governmentSites #InternetArchive #newsSites #pewResearch #publishers #report #webPages #wikipedia #worldWideWeb
https://walledculture.org/we-are-losing-vast-swathes-of-our-digital-past-and-copyright-stops-us-saving-it/
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New research shows that the 2023 Canadian link tax has already failed – just like all the others
At the heart of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) lies the sorry tale of the EU Copyright Directive. Its stated aim appeared reasonable enough: to update EU copyright law for the digital age. But unprecedented lobbying by the copyright industry saw it become yet another failure to understand the online world, and yet another example of laws […]
#canada #eu #euCopyrightDirective #facebook #google #googleTax #instagram #linkTax #links #onlineNewsAct #screenshots
https://walledculture.org/new-research-shows-that-the-2023-canadian-link-tax-has-already-failed-just-like-all-the-others/
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New research shows that the 2023 Canadian link tax has already failed – just like all the others
At the heart of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) lies the sorry tale of the EU Copyright Directive. Its stated aim appeared reasonable enough: to update EU copyright law for the digital age. But unprecedented lobbying by the copyright industry saw it become yet another failure to understand the online world, and yet another example of laws […]
#canada #eu #euCopyrightDirective #facebook #google #googleTax #instagram #linkTax #links #onlineNewsAct #screenshots
https://walledculture.org/new-research-shows-that-the-2023-canadian-link-tax-has-already-failed-just-like-all-the-others/
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New research shows that the 2023 Canadian link tax has already failed – just like all the others
At the heart of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) lies the sorry tale of the EU Copyright Directive. Its stated aim appeared reasonable enough: to update EU copyright law for the digital age. But unprecedented lobbying by the copyright industry saw it become yet another failure to understand the online world, and yet another example of laws […]
#canada #eu #euCopyrightDirective #facebook #google #googleTax #instagram #linkTax #links #onlineNewsAct #screenshots
https://walledculture.org/new-research-shows-that-the-2023-canadian-link-tax-has-already-failed-just-like-all-the-others/
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New research shows that the 2023 Canadian link tax has already failed – just like all the others
At the heart of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) lies the sorry tale of the EU Copyright Directive. Its stated aim appeared reasonable enough: to update EU copyright law for the digital age. But unprecedented lobbying by the copyright industry saw it become yet another failure to understand the online world, and yet another example of laws […]
#canada #eu #euCopyrightDirective #facebook #google #googleTax #instagram #linkTax #links #onlineNewsAct #screenshots
https://walledculture.org/new-research-shows-that-the-2023-canadian-link-tax-has-already-failed-just-like-all-the-others/
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New research shows that the 2023 Canadian link tax has already failed – just like all the others
At the heart of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) lies the sorry tale of the EU Copyright Directive. Its stated aim appeared reasonable enough: to update EU copyright law for the digital age. But unprecedented lobbying by the copyright industry saw it become yet another failure to understand the online world, and yet another example of laws […]
#canada #eu #euCopyrightDirective #facebook #google #googleTax #instagram #linkTax #links #onlineNewsAct #screenshots
https://walledculture.org/new-research-shows-that-the-2023-canadian-link-tax-has-already-failed-just-like-all-the-others/
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We risk losing access to the world’s academic knowledge, and copyright makes things worse @[email protected] @[email protected] #WalledCulture https://walledculture.org/we-risk-losing-access-to-the-worlds-academic-knowledge-and-copyright-makes-things-worse/
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We risk losing access to the world’s academic knowledge, and copyright makes things worse @[email protected] @[email protected] #WalledCulture https://walledculture.org/we-risk-losing-access-to-the-worlds-academic-knowledge-and-copyright-makes-things-worse/
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How to stop video games being made unplayable once support ends
The Pirate Party has long played an important role in fighting the worst excesses of copyright in the EU. For example, when a major copyright update was being discussed, the Pirate Party MEP Felix Reda wrote an insightful and practical report on what needed changing. Most of his recommendations were ignored in the final EU Copyright Directive, but at least someone […]
#copyrightDirective #ebooks #europeanCommission #felixReda #mep #Music #orphanWorks #pirateParty #publicDomain #rossScott #support #videoGames #videos #youtube
https://walledculture.org/how-to-stop-video-games-being-made-unplayable-once-support-ends/
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Why generative AI companies should pay artists to create new works, and give away the results
The latest obsession in the world of copyright is trying to get generative AI companies to pay for using creative material for training purposes. As various posts have noted, this makes no sense, because training is just a matter of analysis, which requires no permission. What the copyright world wants to do is to erect further barriers to accessing knowledge and […]
#ai #artists #blogger #blogs #creativity #generativeAi #google #meta #MikeMasnick #musicIndustry #openai #patronage #simonSchuster #Techdirt #youtube
https://walledculture.org/why-generative-ai-companies-should-pay-artists-to-create-new-works-and-give-away-the-results/
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Research suggests more open access training for academics could help boost its uptake and support
Open access publishing, which allows people to read academic papers without a subscription, seems such a good idea. It means that anyone, anywhere in the world, can read the latest research without needing to pay. Academic institutions can spend less to keep their scholars up-to-date with work in their field. It also helps disseminate research, which means that […]
#academicPublishers #academics #careers #doctorates #openAccess #researchers #survey #training
https://walledculture.org/research-suggests-more-open-access-training-for-academics-could-help-boost-its-uptake-and-support/
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A French collecting society wants a tax on generative AI, payable to…collecting societies
Back in October last year, Walled Culture wrote about a proposed law in France that would see a tax imposed on AI companies, with the proceeds being paid to a collecting society. Now that the EU’s AI Act has been adopted, it is being invoked as another reason why just such a system should be set up. The French collecting society SPEDIDAM (which translates as […]
#aiAct #aiTax #collectingSocieties #eu #france #spedidam
https://walledculture.org/a-french-collecting-society-wants-a-tax-on-generative-ai-payable-tocollecting-societies/
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How private equity has used copyright to cannibalise the past at the expense of the future
Walled Culture has been warning about the financialisation and securitisation of music for two years now. Those obscure but important developments mean that the owners of copyrights are increasingly detached from the creative production process. They regard music as just another asset, like gold, petroleum or property, to be exploited to the maximum. A Guest Essay in […]
#assets #distribution #financialisation #gold #securitisation #spotify #streaming
https://walledculture.org/how-private-equity-has-used-copyright-to-cannibalise-the-past-at-the-expense-of-the-future/
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"There is a widespread belief that all personal, non-commercial uses are fair use, but this is not true." Glyn Moody in #WalledCulture p. 12
I find this belief also spreaded in Europe, where we have exceptions instead of fair use.
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"There is a widespread belief that all personal, non-commercial uses are fair use, but this is not true." Glyn Moody in #WalledCulture p. 12
I find this belief also spreaded in Europe, where we have exceptions instead of fair use.
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"There is a widespread belief that all personal, non-commercial uses are fair use, but this is not true." Glyn Moody in #WalledCulture p. 12
I find this belief also spreaded in Europe, where we have exceptions instead of fair use.
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"There is a widespread belief that all personal, non-commercial uses are fair use, but this is not true." Glyn Moody in #WalledCulture p. 12
I find this belief also spreaded in Europe, where we have exceptions instead of fair use.
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This brightened my day. A dear friend sent us this "Walled Culture" by @glynmoody
So, yes, I'm starting this one tonight ☺️
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Of true fans and superfans: the rise of an alternative business model to copyright
One of the commonest arguments from supporters of copyright is that creators need to be rewarded and that copyright is the only realistic way of doing that. The first statement may be true, but the second certainly isn’t. As Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) notes, most art was created without copyright, when the dominant way of rewarding […]
#businessModels #kevinKelly #lucianGrainge #superfans #trueFans #umg
https://walledculture.org/of-true-fans-and-superfans-the-rise-of-an-alternative-business-model-to-copyright/
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Forgotten books and how to save them
On the Neglected Books site, there is a fine meditation on rescuing forgotten writers and their works from oblivion, and why this is important. As its author Brad Bigelow explains:
I have been searching for neglected books for over forty years and the one thing I can say with unshakeable confidence is that there are more great (and even just […]
#books #criticalApparatus #ebooks #orphanWorks #outOfPrint #publicDomain #reissues #statuteOfAnne #wills
https://walledculture.org/forgotten-books-and-how-to-save-them/
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Forgotten books and how to save them
On the Neglected Books site, there is a fine meditation on rescuing forgotten writers and their works from oblivion, and why this is important. As its author Brad Bigelow explains:
I have been searching for neglected books for over forty years and the one thing I can say with unshakeable confidence is that there are more great (and even just […]
#books #criticalApparatus #ebooks #orphanWorks #outOfPrint #publicDomain #reissues #statuteOfAnne #wills
https://walledculture.org/forgotten-books-and-how-to-save-them/
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Forgotten books and how to save them
On the Neglected Books site, there is a fine meditation on rescuing forgotten writers and their works from oblivion, and why this is important. As its author Brad Bigelow explains:
I have been searching for neglected books for over forty years and the one thing I can say with unshakeable confidence is that there are more great (and even just […]
#books #criticalApparatus #ebooks #orphanWorks #outOfPrint #publicDomain #reissues #statuteOfAnne #wills
https://walledculture.org/forgotten-books-and-how-to-save-them/