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earch engines have already disintermediated Wikipedia: Google uses Wikipedia content in the information boxes it displays, and as a result, many people need help to click through to Wikipedia itself.

the way in which TikTok enables creativity and community building by supporting the reuse of soundtracks, stitching, and dueting, leading to cultural phenomena founded on collaboration

“We came before copyright. But publishers now think of libraries as customer service departments for their database products.”

Licensing rules, technical measures, and regulations all interact in ways that alto -gether create a governance structure for AI training datasets. For example, stat -utory limitations on high-risk AI systems seek to impose behavioral constraints similar to those imposed by RAIL-type licenses

Wikipedia marked its 22nd anniversary in January. It remains, in many ways, a throwback to the Internet’s utopian early days, when experiments with open collaboration — anyone can write and edit for Wikipedia — had yet to cede the digital terrain to multibillion-dollar corporations and data miners, advertising schemers and social-media... See more

As Luis Villa phrases it in his review of the paper, “”open” is not a magic bullet to the heart of power.”

Alongside technical tools, we need ways of defining and explaining social norms and expectations about contribution and value sharing. We need collective mechanisms for decision-making about shared assets, that make people feel heard while recognising the limitations, constraints and realities of their maintenance. We need people and organisations... See more

Open systems – free speech, democracy, open content, open science – will sometimes produce results we do not like. That openness, of course, will be used by the powerful as well as the powerless. There will be cruel speech, bad democratic decisions and uses of openly licensed content with which we disagree. Thus, it is very easy to blame openness.... See more