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Wikimedia’s contribution to a free and healthy Internet is not limited to its knowledge output — it also counts as a civic, democratic space.

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 to... 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 cont... See more

More research is needed in this context to understand the relationship between research institutions and commercial entities, particularly in light of the excep -tions for non-commercial and research uses.

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

The open movement, with its focus on access and public interest, has an important role in the ongoing rethinking of online privacy and the recognition of new challenges of datafication and governing online data, which cannot be solved by relying on the current data protection regime.