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📢 Want to learn about #eBooks in Europe?
🟡 When? 12 April, 14h30 CEST
🟡 What? #eLending questions & authors’ needs
🟡 Whom? Experts from @AuthorsAlliance , #FESABID, @Freiheitsrechte
🎟️ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NJLV_UDEQCOLMLG-hHLTBg#/registration
ℹ️ https://knowledgerights21.org/news-story/the-european-ebook-ecology/
Internet Archive: new copyright laws for generative AI would “further entrench” market leaders
The current excitement over artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, has now reached the stage where governments feel they need to do something about it in terms of regulations. The EU’s AI Act was drawn up before generative AI took off, but is now being retro-fitted with bad ideas to take account of recent developments. Meanwhile, across the …
#AccessToCulture #AccessToKnowledge #ai #BrewsterKahle #competition #generativeAi #InternetArchive #licensing #privacy #study #usCopyrightOffice
https://walledculture.org/internet-archive-new-copyright-laws-for-generative-ai-would-further-entrench-market-leaders/
Copyright's over-protection: research shows that, when given the choice, most authors don’t want excessively-long copyright terms - @glynmoody
#Copyright #Authors #CopyrightTerms #AccessToCulture #NYPL #InternetArchive #USCopyrightOffice
https://walledculture.org/research-shows-that-when-given-the-choice-most-authors-dont-want-excessively-long-copyright-terms/
Copyright has been one of life’s certainties: but will it always be?
@glynmoody reflects how the Internet enables an alternative path for creators & creativity to flourish, without relying on control
#Copyright #AccessToKnowledge #AccessToCulture #TrueFans
https://walledculture.org/copyright-has-been-one-of-lifes-certainties-but-will-it-always-be/
🧵/2 In a recent assessment of the 🇪🇺 #OrphanWorksDirective, the @EU_Commission concluded that: "its relevance as a potential tool for the mass digitisation of #CulturalHeritage has (...) proven to be limited"
👉 https://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/EU/XXVII/EU/12/36/EU_123655/imfname_11200921.pdf
How to redeem big, bad music streaming so that it serves artists, fans – and local communities - @glynmoody
#streaming #AccessToCulture #libraries #MUSICat
https://walledculture.org/how-to-redeem-big-bad-music-streaming-so-that-it-serves-artists-fans-and-local-communities/
There is no ongoing independent backup of Twitter: that means that if the bird flies to infinity and beyond, we lose a collective modern cultural artifact, and that because of ill-adapted copyright rules - @glynmoody #AccessToCulture #copyright #culture https://walledculture.org/if-twitter-goes-down-in-flames-what-happens-to-its-huge-and-historically-important-collection-of-tweets/
A #WalledCulture text-book example: so much for copyright supporting creativity, when it often makes digital preservation of cultural heritage impossible - @glynmoody
Big Content will fight fiercely to preserve and strengthen copyright, which has become central to the survival of their outdated business models
@glynmoody uncovers their rent-seeking behaviour in #WalledCulture - the book
https://walledculture.org/the-book/ #FreeEbook
Sad but true: video games are a modern art form whose preservation is at risk because of copyright maximalism
Want to learn more on ©️'s legal overreach ➡️ download #WalledCulture - the book by @glynmoody for free or get the paperback
https://walledculture.org/the-book/
🔔📣 #WalledCulture - the book by @glynmoody can now also be found on the world's greatest 🌐 online archive: The @internetarchive 👇
https://archive.org/details/walled-culture-the-book
#DigitalBooks #AccessToKnowledge #AccessToCulture #AuthorsForLibraries
Thank you @brewster_kahle, from the @internetarchive, for the kind words & for supporting Walled Culture's journey behind the copyright bricks!
Get your (free ebook) copy of #WalledCulture - the book by @glynmoody👇 https://walledculture.org/the-book/
Glyn Moody (@glynmoody), author of #WalledCulture - the book, talks about everything that’s wrong with copyright & Big Content with @klillington on our newest Walled Culture podcast 👇
🎧 https://walledculture.podbean.com
📽️ https://youtube.com/channel/UCwO_JXmWzAItBd14R_ZrP7w
🥁 #WalledCulture - the book, now freely available 🥁: what that means & how you can help - @glynmoody https://walledculture.org/walled-culture-the-book-now-freely-available-what-that-means-and-how-you-can-help/
Time to help ensure 🆘 #AccessToCulture & #AccessToKnowledge 🆘 ❗
