📊 Our 2025 Annual Report is out!

Over the past year, COMMUNIA continued working to strengthen the #PublicDomain and improve #accesstoknowledge and #culture across Europe.

Learn more about our impact and read it here 👇
https://communia-association.org/2026/03/05/communia-2025-annual-report-out-now/

🎙️ Have you heard Future Knowledge?

This #podcast from the Internet Archive (@internetarchive) and Authors Alliance (@AuthorsAlliance) explores how knowledge is created, shared, and preserved in the digital age.

Listen & subscribe ⤵️ Over 20 episodes out now!
🎧 https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm

#AccessToKnowledge

Copyright laws built for physical scarcity now wall off digital culture. 🧱💾

Glyn Moody (@glynmoody) explains the mechanics of these “walls” on the Future Knowledge #podcast in WALLED CULTURE, with Maria Bustillos joining the discussion.

🎧 Listen ➡️ https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/walled-culture

#Libraries #AccessToKnowledge

Education is a powerful tool for transformation, yet it often remains unattainable for many.

Why is access to quality learning still limited? Reflecting on the systemic barriers that inhibit growth can help foster solutions.

Together, we can advocate for inclusive approaches to education.

The journey towards accessible knowledge is a shared responsibility.

How do we dismantle these barriers? #Education #AccessToKnowledge #Advocacy

For more information,

40 Years Of Copyright Obstruction To Human Rights And Social Justice

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/12/23/40-years-of-copyright-obstruction-to-human-rights-and-social-justice/

"What a great time to be #Google. Not only is it facing only the meekest of punishments for abusing its #monopoly of the #search market, it is actually now positioned to further entrench its dominance of our information landscape.

This is a perilous moment to be granting one company this much control over global #accesstoknowledge."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/opinion/google-judge-mehta-remedy-monopoly.html?unlocked_article_code=1.pE8.XB0L.ydY_4VecQ_MD&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Sci-Hub has been blocked in India

https://sci-hub.se/sci-hub-blocked-india

#HackerNews #SciHub #India #Blocked #CopyrightIssues #AccessToKnowledge #AcademicFreedom

Just been made aware that many student unions in the UK now have “liberation officers”.

Trump would hate it, no doubt.

It got me thinking though... what if research library staff thought of themselves as knowledge liberation officers, and the research staff too?

More liberation please!

After all, what’s more horridly colonial than being complicit in allowing large commercial publishers to have exclusive control on who gets access to knowledge? 🧐

#Liberation #OpenAccess #AccessToKnowledge

Publisher’s cost cutting, including the botched use of AI, pushes editors of top journal to resign

Walled Culture has noted previously the fabulous levels of profit that many academic publishers have achieved, largely through the abuse of copyright, as explained in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions). And yet those levels are apparently not enough for perhaps the most successful of the academic publishers, Elsevier. A story on the site Retraction Watch reports on the mass […]

#academicPublishing #AccessToKnowledge #accessibility #ai #apc #copyediting #editing #elsevier #journals #openAccess #production #profits #resignations #retractions #subscriptions

https://walledculture.org/publishers-cost-cutting-including-the-botched-use-of-ai-pushes-editors-of-top-journal-to-resign/