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Thanks to their digital nature, e-books are treated much differently. They can’t be resold or given away. A library that wants to lend e-books must buy a license from the copyright holder. These subscriptions can be limited to a number of reads, or by periods of a year or two. Everything is tracked. Libraries own nothing.

dealing with bad actors and reducing harm is not the same as in -centivizing good actors to establish best practices and good dataset governance.

The challenge for the open movement is already clear: build an alternative to corporate, closed machine learning systems. And to protect the commons from exploitation by these systems.

As the regime governing intellectual property rights evolved and began disproportionately favoring IP rights owners, the concept of openness became a tool for challenging power relations and striving for more equality. In that sense, the promotion of reuse and access to informational resources was fully compatible with the need to defend human... See more

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After working in fashion e-commerce for years I've come to the conclusion that in e-commerce we do not sell clothes... we sell images of clothes. Compressed, digital versions of physical products. As Roland Barthes pointed out in The Fashion System, a product image is a symbol or metaphor of a product. Media--in this case images--mediates... See more

This link between openness and our relationships works in both directions: being more open strengthens our relationships, but stronger relationships and communities – ones built on trust, recognition and shared purpose – also help us to be more open. It is a positively reinforcing loop, but one that is hard to enter. Whether in personal... See more

There are con -cerns about the responsibilities of researchers and developers who use publicly available data to build AI. Copyright measures are not the best way to address these issues, and open licensing is not the best way to safeguard digital rights and uphold ethical behavior. To address the factors that contributed to the misuse of open... See more