[ONLINE] About The developments in generative and General Purpose AI (GPAI) systems have raised concerns about extractive data practices, market concentration…

Highlights from the CommonsDB final conference at EUIPO Alicante, exploring how open standards and federated networks can deliver scalable copyright infrastructure for Europe.

The CommonsDB project's final conference marks its end and looks ahead to the future of EU copyright infrastructure.

Responses to the latest EU copyright consultation fall into two camps, each calling for half of the Commission’s objectives. Only a handful of submissions show how to achieve both. This analysis highl...

The CommonsDB project's final conference marks its end and looks ahead to the future of EU copyright infrastructure.

SHAPING THE OPEN TRANSITION

Three and a half years after the emergence of generative AI as a new technology paradigm, there is broad agreement that AI companies have extracted enorm...

New report explores how academic communities can shape AI governance in research and publishing, from regulation to community-led approaches.

Together with more than 30 civil society organisations from across Europe, we are calling on the European Parliament to protect the use of open standard licences for public sector information.

The European Commission’s move to W-Social frames it as a European alternative to X, but its closed-source code and reliance on Bluesky’s infrastructure show that sovereign social media requires open ...

The EU wants to build digital sovereignty through open source AI, yet its own copyright rules stand in the way. A study of eight European initiatives maps the resulting legal friction and proposes sol...

GPT-NL refuses training data that copyright law permits. The result is a model that cannot compete, highlighting why sustaining the information ecosystem requires the right to be paid rather than a ri...

The EU now considers AI as a strategic industrial sector—but can the investment claims behind the agenda be verified? This report maps how the EU funds AI and shows a fragmented landscape that makes…

CommonsDB's new dashboard provides the first comprehensive view of data in the registry

The EU's Tech Sovereignty Package puts open source at the center of Europe's sovereignty agenda. But by narrowing the strategy to code and leaving non-code Digital Commons and data out of scope, it…

The EU's Tech Sovereignty Package puts open source at the center of Europe's sovereignty agenda. But by narrowing the strategy to code and leaving non-code Digital Commons and data out of scope, it ri...

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Panel - Can public AI save public media?

Author: Alek Tarkowski For the last twenty five years, standardized open licenses were increasingly seen as a main tool for democratizing access to knowledge. Over less then a decade, a relatively na...

The EU should not re-do the entire digital stack but confront the structural bottlenecks that sustain Europe’s digital dependence, writes Zuzanna Warso.

The Wikimedia Futures Lab brought together 100 Wikimedians to collaboratively design ways to respond to global trends impacting the movement. The format was an “ideathon”, and the focus…

Conditional access to cultural heritage data isn't about control. It is about reciprocity in a context where public collections are being extracted on an industrial scale.