A colleague from the UK and I bring in our two cents on a highly divisive issue, written from the perspective of CHIs and research libraries.
A Position Paper on AI and Copyrights in Cultural Heritage and Research (EU and UK)
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#Commoms sind gemeinschaftlich regulierte wirtschaftliche Güter, die in der #Wirtschaft oft künstlich verknappt werden um der Tragik der Allmende zu entgehen. #Olstrom hat gezeigt dass mit gut designten Regularien diese Güter zum Vorteil der #Gemeinschaft organisiert werden können. Insofern würde ich tendenziell manche #Genossenschaften und das #Fediverse als #Commons einstufen, wegen der gemeinschaftlichen Regularien. @commonsnetwork
We cannot rely on the US to protect or nurture the commons. Think of the US as a giant shopping mall with guns. That’s it. That’s the whole philosophy right there.
We want to safeguard the infrastructure of civilisation, we have to do it ourselves here in the EU before it’s too late. And we can start by acknowledging our own failures and redoubling our commitment to fundamental rights and democracy (and not limit our own potential by having every single decision framed by the fucking “Single Market”).
You want to end up like the US? Then let’s keep going as we are. You want something different? We must invest in the commons, embrace our diversity, embrace equity, and move to an inclusive, post-capitalist existence.
It’s up to us. The bacteria in places we haven’t even visited yet that will survive long after we’ve made ourselves extinct – should that be the route we decide to take (because yes, it is a decision) – don’t really give two shits either way.
Als Mitglied der AG "Kunstwissenschaften+Wikipedia" freue ich mich, diese Woche Donnerstagabend ab 18:30 etwas zum Urheberrecht im Kontext der Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons und speziell bezogen auf Fotografien von Kunstwerken zu referieren.
Link zum Videocall unter
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbeitsgemeinschaft_Kunstwissenschaften_%2B_Wikipedia/tips_%26_tools
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@zbrando @morrick @ueeu You’re not wrong.
But, looking ahead, we can do so much better than the commercial domain name system.
Commercial domain names are a gold standard example of artificial scarcity. A domain name registrar cost next to nothing to operate. It’s tiny rows of text in a database. It could easily be free to own your own domain name – a huge part of what constitutes identity – on the Internet.
In fact, a non-commercial service has been operational for 24 years. It would be trivial to regulate that browsers in the EU implement support for it and work together with, say, @letsencrypt to ensure it can handle TLS.
That would be an amazing addition to the commons and a future-proof way forward that we could lead on with next to no investment.
"How a network of relationships are allowing us to survive"
This is a 25-minute talk by historian Dipesh Chakrabarty in which he explains why technology today needs to be thought of in terms of survival and participation (in effect, he is talking about convivial technology), and why living well with technology on Earth must first and foremost involve protecting the critical zone (from soil to air) that makes life (human and otherwise), and thus all technology, possible. In the face of a crisis of civilisation, Chakrabarty argues that it is important to rethink technologies by understanding the impact of the general on the local.
