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Apr 1, 2024

📢 Want to learn about #eBooks in Europe?

🟡 When? 12 April, 14h30 CEST
🟡 What? #eLending questions & authors’ needs
🟡 Whom? Experts from @AuthorsAlliance , #FESABID, @Freiheitsrechte

🎟️ https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NJLV_UDEQCOLMLG-hHLTBg#/registration
ℹ️ https://knowledgerights21.org/news-story/the-european-ebook-ecology/

#eBookSOS #AccessToCulture #Copyright

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: The European ebook Ecology - a view from authors and an update on legislative developments from Spain and Germany. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join us for an hour and a half to hear about what authors want from sustainable eBook markets. In addition, we will be covering recent developments in Germany and an exciting new study on eBook lending in Spain. Speakers: - Dave Hansen: Executive Director, Authors Alliance - Ariadna Matas: Policy Advisor, Europeana Foundation and Member of the Libraries and Copyright group at the Spanish Library Association (FESABID) - Mathias Schindler: Knowledge Manager and investigative researcher, Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte e.V., Germany

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Walled Culture Nov 14, 2023

Internet Archive: new copyright laws for generative AI would “further entrench” market leaders

The current excitement over artificial intelligence (AI), particularly generative AI, has now reached the stage where governments feel they need to do something about it in terms of regulations. The EU’s AI Act was drawn up before generative AI took off, but is now being retro-fitted with bad ideas to take account of recent developments. Meanwhile, across the …

#AccessToCulture #AccessToKnowledge #ai #BrewsterKahle #competition #generativeAi #InternetArchive #licensing #privacy #study #usCopyrightOffice

https://walledculture.org/internet-archive-new-copyright-laws-for-generative-ai-would-further-entrench-market-leaders/

Walled Culture Mar 4, 2023

Copyright's over-protection: research shows that, when given the choice, most authors don’t want excessively-long copyright terms - @glynmoody
#Copyright #Authors #CopyrightTerms #AccessToCulture #NYPL #InternetArchive #USCopyrightOffice
https://walledculture.org/research-shows-that-when-given-the-choice-most-authors-dont-want-excessively-long-copyright-terms/

Research shows that, when given the choice, most authors don’t want excessively-long copyright terms

Last week Walled Culture mentioned the problem of orphan works. These are creations, typically books, that are still covered by copyright, but unavailable because the original publisher or distributor has gone out of business, or simply isn’t interested in keeping them in circulation. The problem is that without any obvious point of contact, it’s not …

Walled Culture Feb 23, 2023

Copyright has been one of life’s certainties: but will it always be?
@glynmoody reflects how the Internet enables an alternative path for creators & creativity to flourish, without relying on control
#Copyright #AccessToKnowledge #AccessToCulture #TrueFans
https://walledculture.org/copyright-has-been-one-of-lifes-certainties-but-will-it-always-be/

Copyright has been one of life’s certainties: but will it always be?

Copyright seems to be a fixture of our legal, economic and social systems. For 300 years, it has formed the backbone of the structures used to incentivise and remunerate creators. During that time, copyright has been extended repeatedly in length and breadth. The original term of the 1710 Statute of Anne – 14 years’ monopoly …

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Walled Culture Dec 12, 2022

🧵/2 In a recent assessment of the 🇪🇺 #OrphanWorksDirective, the @EU_Commission concluded that: "its relevance as a potential tool for the mass digitisation of #CulturalHeritage has (...) proven to be limited"

#AccessToCulture

👉 https://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/EU/XXVII/EU/12/36/EU_123655/imfname_11200921.pdf

Walled Culture Dec 8, 2022

How to redeem big, bad music streaming so that it serves artists, fans – and local communities - @glynmoody
#streaming #AccessToCulture #libraries #MUSICat
https://walledculture.org/how-to-redeem-big-bad-music-streaming-so-that-it-serves-artists-fans-and-local-communities/

How to redeem big, bad music streaming so that it serves artists, fans – and local communities

Music streaming services are great – for listeners, who gain access to huge quantities of music, even if they don’t end up owning any of it. But it’s hardly a secret that streaming services produce very little income for the musicians involved – even the big names earn a pittance – with most of the …

Walled Culture Dec 3, 2022

There is no ongoing independent backup of Twitter: that means that if the bird flies to infinity and beyond, we lose a collective modern cultural artifact, and that because of ill-adapted copyright rules - @glynmoody #AccessToCulture #copyright #culture https://walledculture.org/if-twitter-goes-down-in-flames-what-happens-to-its-huge-and-historically-important-collection-of-tweets/

If Twitter goes down in flames, what happens to its huge and historically important collection of tweets?

This blog has just written about the likely loss of a very particular kind of culture – K-pop live streams. Culture is culture, and a loss is a loss. But potentially we are facing the disappearance of a cultural resource that is indisputably more important. I’m talking about Twitter, and its vast store of tweets …

Walled Culture Nov 29, 2022

A #WalledCulture text-book example: so much for copyright supporting creativity, when it often makes digital preservation of cultural heritage impossible - @glynmoody

👉 https://walledculture.org/digital-books-do-wear-out-just-like-digital-music-digital-films-and-video-games/

#AccessToCulture #DigitalPreservation #copyright #culture

Digital books do wear out – just like digital music, digital films and video games

There’s a great post by Brewster Kahle on the Internet Archive blog with the title “Digital Books wear out faster than Physical Books“. He makes an important point about the work involved in providing and preserving digital books: The Internet Archive processes and reprocesses the books it has digitized as new optical character recognition technologies …

Walled Culture Oct 18, 2022

Big Content will fight fiercely to preserve and strengthen copyright, which has become central to the survival of their outdated business models

@glynmoody uncovers their rent-seeking behaviour in #WalledCulture - the book
https://walledculture.org/the-book/ #FreeEbook

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The Book

Another Milestone on our Journey: the Walled Culture Book is out. Download your free ebook or get the paperback below PDF | Walled Culture - the BookePub | Walled Culture - the Bookmobi | Walled Culture - the Book PAPERBACK Amazon.AUAmazon.CAAmazon.COMAmazon.CO.UKAmazon.DEAmazon.ESAmazon.FRAmazon.IT EBOOK Get your Free Digital Copy Our view is that culture should not be …

Walled Culture Oct 11, 2022

Sad but true: video games are a modern art form whose preservation is at risk because of copyright maximalism

Want to learn more on ©️'s legal overreach ➡️ download #WalledCulture - the book by @glynmoody for free or get the paperback
https://walledculture.org/the-book/

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