Belongs in a museum, ideally one with a cat.
Writes about #OpenGLAM #Museums #Libraries #OpenAccess #Copyright
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This Friday, I'll be joining a Copyright Literacy webinar to talk about art, copyright and the public domain. đť
Join me, Ana Enriquez, Megan Eve Kilvington, Diane Crawford-Leighton and Sarah Brear online. Jane Secker and Chris Morrison will be our hosts.
https://copyrightliteracy.org/2025/11/10/webinar-81-highights-of-icepops-2025/
đ Can registries make AI training data more lawful? Our CommonsDB workshop explored this with experts from pleias, @creativecommons Common Crawl Foundation and @kbnationalebibliotheek
We're building bridges between digital assets, rights info, and AI.
https://www.commonsdb.org/blog/exploring-commonsdbs-role-in-ai-training-data/
#GLAMWiki2025: Wikimedia as essential digital infrastructure and trusted tools for cultural institutions.
@CultureDoug will showcase CommonsDB as part of our copyright infrastructure workâconnecting cultural memory with digital commons.
Register by Sep 30: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/GLAM_Wiki_2025
The first part of CommonsDB Feasibility Studyâby @paulk, @CultureDoug, @Posth, @jpquintais, Kacper Szkalej, and Thomas Margonâanticipates launching the first public version of the registry after summer.
đ Workshop Tomorrow
Jun 06, 10:00 AMâ12:00 PM EDT
Join @CultureDoug and other experts in an online workshop hosted by the Open Copyright Education Advisory Network (OCEAN) to explore the new Open GLAM Toolkit for implementing open access policies:
https://www.oceancopyright.org/event-details/introduction-to-the-open-glam-toolkit
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The editors of the Italian open access journal Engramma invited me to contribute an article for a special issue on copyleft and internet piracy.
So I wrote 'Museums and the Enclosure of the Public Domain in the Digital Age', now online at https://engramma.it/eOS/index.php?id_articolo=5839
Grazie a Giulia Zanon, Filippo Perfetti e Monica Centanni. đ
đ The first #CommonsDB newsletter features insights from @paulk and Sebastian Posth on building a public registry for Public Domain and openly licensed works.
đŹ Donât miss outâsubscribe to get the next issue delivered straight to your inbox: https://www.commonsdb.org/blog/commonsdb-a-foundation-for-transparent-digital-rights-information/?ref=commonsdb-newsletter
đ˘ Just launched: CommonsDB - a new initiative to build a prototype registry of public domain and open-licensed works.
This project originated from our 2021 suggestion on a white paper and is now funded by the European Commission.
We're working with committed partners from Liccium, @europeana Wikimedia Sverige, and the Institute for Information Law (IViR) to create public infrastructure for verifying the rights status of digital content.
đ https://openfuture.eu/blog/open-future-launches-commonsdb/
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