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We’ve seen Wikipedia, Mozilla, Internet Archive, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Library of Science. These are infrastructure-type companies, but they’re not-for-profits.

“Home is where we know and where we are known, where we love and are beloved. Home is mastery, voice, relationship, and sanctuary: part freedom, part flourishing ... part refuge, part prospect.” “We can choose its form and location but not its meaning.” (Zuboff 2019).

In one scenario, these conditions would be personalized by each entity sharing their works through tools that allow them to express motivations for sharing. This path is currently being explored by the new responsible AI licenses introduced in 2022, and their creators envision a proliferation of licensing conditions chosen by licensors 5

A lot of what’s built the World Wide Web in the open information infrastructure that we understand is just actually embedded in a few laws that basically make it so it can be user originated content that can be then hosted on other companies’ websites without having them have liability. As long as, “Hey, we’re in copyright infringement,” if they... See more

Over the past decade it has become a kind of factual netting that holds the whole digital world together.