Our work with the Open Movement aims to preserve the collective achievements of the past twenty years while leveraging the benefits of Digital Commons. https://openfuture.eu/our-work/open-movement/

📬 Our April newsletter, which focuses on AI transparency, is out. Dive into how we're working to make AI infrastructure accessible and beneficial for everyone.

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📊 New report with Critical Infrastructure Lab: EU's digital sovereignty won't come from chasing the next big tech breakthrough.

Zuza Warso and Meret Baumgartner’s research shows that EU funding must address real needs and strengthen public digital infrastructure.

🔍 https://openfuture.eu/publication/putting-money-where-your-mouth-is/

Discover how we're working to make generative AI benefit creators and the commons through our AI and Creative Labor initiatives https://openfuture.eu/our-work/ai-and-creative-labor/

🌍 Interested in shaping Europe's digital future through the power of #DigitalCommons ?

Join @NGICommons at #NGIForum25 to explore two insightful topics
💡 Digital Commons tools for building Digital Sovereignty
📈 Towards a strategic agenda for (funding) the Digital Commons

📆 19–20 June 2025
📍 Brussels, Albert Borschette Congress Center
🎟️ Get your ticket: https://commons.ngi.eu/event/ngi-forum-2025/

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🇪🇺 "Simplification should not be a guise for deregulation"

New piece by Warso & Gahntz: The EU's pivot toward regulatory simplification risks compromising vital AI transparency rules. Long-term competitive advantage comes from innovation, not secrecy.

🔍 https://openfuture.eu/blog/gutting-ai-transparency-in-the-name-of-deregulation-will-not-help-europe/

In a recent op-ed, Zuzanna Warso (Open Future Foundation) and Maximilian Gahntz (Mozilla Foundation) argue that weakening training data transparency won't boost Europe's edge. Instead, it will shield the most powerful AI companies from oversight, entrench their dominance, and slow research that benefits the broader public.
https://euobserver.com/digital/ara7bbd63b

Explore how we’re building a modern copyright framework that benefits everyone in society—from creators to rights holders—through our timeline of initiatives and proposals on Copyright Infrastructure: https://openfuture.eu/our-work/copyright-infrastructure/

“A stronger vision of purposeful AI deployment is needed, if the AI Continent Action Plan is to achieve more than just boost commercial AI development.”

Read our newest opinion by Alek Tarkowski on the AI Continent Action Plan.
https://openfuture.eu/blog/from-ai-factories-to-public-value/

#publicAI

Want to learn more about what we do? Check out our work on Public AI and commons-based approaches here: https://openfuture.eu/our-work/ai-and-the-commons/

Public Digital Infrastructure is a big policy idea that we believe in. Learn about related initiatives and proposals here: https://openfuture.eu/our-work/public-digital-infrastructure/

🔔 Did you miss our March newsletter? We shared updates about our #CommonsDB initiative, introduced our new colleague Aditya Singh, and highlighted our work on copyright and public digital infrastructure.

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https://mailchi.mp/openfuture/developing-registry-digital-commons

The working group chairs writing the code of practice for providers of General Purpose AI models recently published a new draft of the code for feedback.

The code addresses web-crawling but overlooks other methods of obtaining online data—like BitTorrent—that fall outside its commitments. What makes this oversight concerning? Find out in our latest blog post.

https://openfuture.eu/blog/is-web-scraping-the-only-copyright-concern-for-ai/

🔔 Our March newsletter is out. We write about the new #CommonsDB initiative, welcome our new colleague Aditya Singh, and update you on our copyright and public digital infrastructure work.

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🆕 We're excited to welcome Aditya Singh to Open Future as Senior Policy Analyst.

With nearly a decade of experience in digital rights, data governance, and technology ethics, Aditya will contribute to our Digital Commons work and lead our activities within the @NGICommons project—an initiative to develop a long-term strategy for digital and internet commons in Europe.

https://openfuture.eu/blog/meet-aditya-singh-our-new-senior-policy-analyst/

📢 Why limiting copyright compliance to web crawling in the EU's AI Code of Practice is problematic?

The third draft of the EU's AI Code of Practice ignores other data acquisition methods like BitTorrent (remember Meta's book downloading?). @paulk's analysis shows why this narrow focus doesn't align with broader EU copyright law.

Read more: https://openfuture.eu/blog/is-web-scraping-the-only-copyright-concern-for-ai/

🎯 Key takeaway from @NGICommons “Public Policies for Digital Commons” webinar: Institutions must lead by adopting the alternatives they promote.

Read more and watch the discussion: https://openfuture.eu/event/public-policies-for-digital-commons-webinar-european-tech-infrastructure-and-open-source-investment/

📱 We are building a public registry for openly licensed works. The first #CommonsDB newsletter features insights from @paulk and Sebastian Posth on what is planned.

Want more updates on the initiative? Subscribe to the newsletter: https://www.commonsdb.org/blog/commonsdb-a-foundation-for-transparent-digital-rights-information/

💪 Key takeaway from @NGICommons “Public Policies for Digital Commons” webinar: Funding must fit all OSS realities, from individual volunteers to larger foundations.

Read more and watch the discussion: https://openfuture.eu/event/public-policies-for-digital-commons-webinar-european-tech-infrastructure-and-open-source-investment/

Funded by the @EUCommission #CommonsDB creates a prototype registry for Public Domain and openly licensed works.

Driven by Open Future, the initiative is a joint effort with Liccium, Europeana Foundation, Wikimedia Sverige, and the Institute for Information Law (IViR).

Discover more about CommonsDB and its mission to support the Digital Commons: https://www.commonsdb.org/