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Andrea Wallace

@andeewallace.bsky.social
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Associate Professor of Law & Tech, University of Exeter, CREATe alumna, IP and digital heritage nerd, viva la public domain, she/her

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University of Exeter Law School @uniexeterlawschool.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
The GLAM-E Lab has just won! Congratulations to all previous and current students led by @andeewallace.bsky.social who have been involved, as well as all the partner organisations.👏 @uniofexeterhass.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @rammuseum.bsky.social gw4.ac.uk/news/gw4-ope...
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GW4 Open Research Prize 2025 - Winners Announced! - GW4
GW4 is proud to announce the winners of the 2025 GW4 Open Research Prize, celebrating outstanding contributions to open research practices across the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter.
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Richard Ovenden @richove.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
What a depressing irony that my #Burningthebooks & seven of my scholarly articles have been pirated by Meta for LibGen. We are experimenting with AI @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social using only public-domain materials. This industry needs to be regulated! www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
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Donna Yates @profdonnayates.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
New report calls for return of human remains – but UK museums lack the resources to act
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New report calls for return of human remains – but UK museums lack the resources to act
Even with the best of intentions, restitution is not a fast process.
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Carys Craig @caryscraig.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...
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AI and copyright law: Osgoode expert describes what’s at stake - YFile
Osgoode Hall Law School Professor Carys Craig explains how artificial intelligence is challenging the foundations of copyright law, raising questions about the future of creativity and who truly owns ...
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Molly White @molly.wiki · 20/03/2025
For those just learning about LibGen because of the reporting on Meta and other companies training LLMs on pirated books, I’d highly recommend the book Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education (open access: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-edi...)
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Shadow Libraries: Access to Knowledge in Global Higher Education
How students get the materials they need as opportunities for higher education expand but funding shrinks.From the top down, Shadow Libraries explores the
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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
GLAM-E Lab survey on how online collections and websites are being impacted by activity from AI training bots... to understand if this is a widespread phenomenon and if it is having technical, financial, or other impacts on institutions.
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Digital Collections and AI-Related Bot Activity
The GLAM-E Lab is conducting a study on how (and if) traffic to digital collections has been impacted by bots building AI training data sets. We are interested in institutions that have and have not ...
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
🚀 The first #CommonsDB newsletter features insights from @paulk.bsky.social and @posth.me on building a public registry for Public Domain and openly licensed works. 📬 Don’t miss out—subscribe to get the next issue delivered straight to your inbox: www.commonsdb.org/blog/commons...
The CommonsDB website and newsletter have been released.
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Jeanne Fromer @jeannefromer.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The DC Circuit's decision in Thaler v. Perlmutter is out, ruling that copyright law requires that authors be human, not AI, reasoning to this conclusion from the structure of the copyright statute (e.g., duration is based on the lifetime of the author) media.cadc.uscourts.gov/opinions/doc...
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Megan Rae Blakely @meganraeblakely.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
‘Of course, the problem is not that AI-generated content exists. It is that it increasingly looks like knowledge while bypassing the very mechanisms that give knowledge its legitimacy.’ jeppestricker.substack.com/p/the-synthe...
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The Synthetic Knowledge Crisis
How AI is Reshaping Knowledge, and Not for the Better
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Dr. Allison Betus (she/her) 🌈 @allisonbetus.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Do me a quick favor? 1. Got to settings 2. Go to accessibility 3. Please tick the box that requires you to add alt text before you can post images A lot of folks would really appreciate it & it's good writing practice 🙏
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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The sad thing is that email and admin have taken over academic life so much that many of us have to squeeze in the poisoning of minds on evenings and weekends.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Effective and creative data visualization in the form of a full page piece in the WaPo today to show how Trump/Musk are dismantling government.
A page of 52 thumbnail images of government websites that are no longer available.
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Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Can't be doom and gloom all the time! Race + IP 2025: Abolitionist Futures is happening on April 17th-19th. You've still got two days to send us your abstract. The CFP is available here: raceipconference.org. We hope you'll join us!
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Race + IP – Dedicated to the intersectional and collaborative study of race, coloniality, and intellectual properties
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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Our latest report explores 20 years of EU policies supporting #digitalcommons and the shift from open access to collective governance of key digital infrastructures. 🛋️ Read more here: openfuture.eu/publication/... Cc: @ngicommons.bsky.social @jankrewer.bsky.social
From Open Access to Collective Governance, report cover with branded Open Future background
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Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
As AI systems grow more efficient, will they reduce environmental impacts —or make them worse? Our new paper with @strubell.bsky.social and Kate Crawford explores how 𝗝𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗻𝘀’ 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗼𝘅 applies to AI, showing that efficiency gains alone won’t lead to sustainability 🌎 arxiv.org/pdf/2501.16548
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Josie Fraser @josiefraser.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
#EPDD25 Merete Sanderhoff gives a shout out to @andeewallace.bsky.social 's excellent 3D models & rights management report pro.europeana.eu/post/3d-mode...
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3D Models and Rights Management report | Europeana PRO
This report explores copyright and other rights assessments for 3D Models in Europeana - read the Executive Summary and download the full report below.
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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Announcement also at www.glamelab.org/products/roy... if you feel there's too much video news in the world already…
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Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery
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Gabriel Bodard @palaeofuturist.bsky.social · 12/02/2024
Exeter's GLAM-E Lab and Royal Albert Memorial Museum announce a new collaboration and open access strategy. Video announcement at youtu.be/4s6aG2jHPIQ
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RAMM announces open access strategy
An exciting collaboration between RAMM and the University of Exeter is helping to ensure the museum’s incredible collections are available for use by everyo...
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