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Early in the twenty-first century, the attempt to enact exclusivity-based laws for controlling access to digital resources in the US gave rise to the open movement. The movement quickly gained momentum. The champions of openness hoped that universal access to knowledge and culture, made possible thanks to the power of the Internet, would contribute... See more

here are two basic approaches to creating AI datasets. The first one, which is typical of the case we have been studying, a pool of open works is purposefully chosen to ensure license compliance. The second approach creates the dataset by scraping the “raw internet” and relying on copyright exceptions. LAION , a dataset of 400 million image-text... See more

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.”

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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

What does it really mean to be a good citizen?” Being a good citizen participating in the corporate world.

Inspired by ideas of an uninterrupted flow of knowledge and information and driven by the critique of intellectual property in digital works[14], one of the open movement’s guiding principles became the belief that enabling access to online information resources would have positive social effects and that these benefits would outweigh the interest... See more