How AI could bring about the mass adoption of open access in mathematics – and beyond
Numerous posts on Walled Culture have lamented the continuing failure to realise all the benefits from open access. Even when there is a move to open access, it…
Good news: laws to tackle AI deepfakes are coming. Bad news: they are based on copyright
A key theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is that copyright, born in an analogue age of scarcity, works poorly in today’s digital world…
Interview | Mike Masnick: Techdirt, Supporting Creators, the SOPA/PIPA Battle, and NFTs
Mike Masnick explores the intersection of technology, innovation, policy, law, civil liberties, and economics, being the founder & editor of the popular Techdirt blog, as well as the…
NFTs are mostly useless or worse, but here’s one important way they could help creators
As you may have noticed, the Internet is awash with hyperbolic claims about non-fungible tokens, or NFTs. From the volume of that discussion, and some of the numbers…
ResearchEquals: step-by-step academic publishing, where the default is openness and CC0
There are a number of problems with academic publishing, which open access has been trying to fix for over two decades. Back in 2020, a “Manifesto to Liberate…
How to make money from scarcity, in a world of digital abundance
The current crisis in the copyright world is being driven by the once-in-a-civilisation transition from an analogue world to a digital one. Initially the copyright industries fought the…