Public AI models are possible! Spawning just released the largest public domain image dataset Now we are training Public Diffusion, a public domain image model with no IP concerns This will help any artist fine tune, and own, their own models on their own terms DIY

🏙️ Our new report, by Jan Krewer and @ZWarso, focuses on how #DigitalCommons can support and improve #PublicDigitalInfrastructures. 📄Read or download the paper, contributing to the @NGI Commons Project: openfuture.eu/publication/di…

🧑‍🏫 Jan Krewer will present our latest paper, co-authored with @ZWarso, at the #OFASymposium in Boston. 📅 Today at 15:30 EST time and hosted by Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard. Some of our NGI Commons partners will also be speaking at the conference. Good luck to all! symposium.openforumeurope.org

We listened to hours of confirmation hearings so you don't have to. 👂 Here's what we learned about the incoming European Commission's plans for #copyright: communia-association.org/2024/11/14/key…

🚨 We are hiring a Project and Research Coordinator! Check out the details and apply by 24 November 👉 openfuture.eu/project-and-re…

AI is not credible

“Demonopolizing the European Public Domain” is a new report produced with ILPLab. It examines Google Books exclusivity clauses and the Open Data Directive, and how they affect the #PublicDomain and European libraries' collections. 📥Download: openfuture.eu/publication/de…

Our new report with Centrum Cyfrowe analyses how small language models built as Digital Commons can compete with commercial ones and help fight concentrations of power in AI. Two case studies from Poland offer learnings for debates on #publicAI. 🔗 Read: openfuture.eu/publication/ai…

📚 “Demonopolizing the European Public Domain”, produced with ILPLab, is our new report focusing on how Google Books exclusivity clauses and the Open Data Directive affect the #PublicDomain and European libraries' collections. Download: openfuture.eu/publication/de…

🦆 Thank you DuckDuckGo for supporting EDRi network's efforts towards building a digital future where we can all thrive 🌿💙

It is somewhat ironic that the Politico 28 Ranking, presented as a highlight of EU Bubble politics, is partly sponsored by TikTok. A company whose app is banned on corporate EU institution devices and under scrutiny for its role in the manipulation of the Romanian election.

🇪🇸¿Qué pasa en España?🇪🇸 Spain has recently put forward a draft proposal to introduce extended collective licensing (ECL) for the development of general-purpose AI models. Our comments by Teresa Nobre on the Draft and its intersections with DSM Articles 3&4: communia-association.org/2024/12/10/a-f…

As of today, it is increasingly hard to justify the substantial @eurostar markup on the AMS <> BXL sector. Very happy that there is now a fast (only 25 minutes slower than the Eurostar) hourly connection that you can just hop on at any time of day!

Welcome to the public domain, THE SKELETON DANCE (1929). 🎞️ 🎶👻 Walt Disney's first Silly Symphony cartoon is a masterpiece of synchronized animation & music featuring dancing skeletons in a graveyard. Learn more. ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/01/01/wel… #PublicDomainDay #CopyrightFree

The decision of the Bureau of the European Parliament of 16 December 2024 laying down Rules on the European Parliament’s Open Data (C/2025/341) has been published today in the Official Journal of the European Union. Creative Commons BY 4.0 and CC0 adopted! data.europa.eu/eli/C/2025/341…

I've been reminiscing about the first Creative Commons summit at Harvard Law School in June 2005, almost 20 years ago! So many friends in this photo, so many people I haven't seen in ages. Time flies.

Our message for people concerned about AI data law in UK is the same as it has been for 2 years Think about an opt out that could work ISCC codes, mandatory and easy to use opt out APIs etc

Some work news 🐣 openfuture.eu/blog/meet-doug…

Une vidéo qui montre aussi qu'au plus haut sommet de l'Etat on a une compréhension large des exceptions au droit d'auteur

Flow joins the (growing) club of Oscar winning movies that were cofunded by the EU, through its Creative Europe programme. The cat and EU lover in me definitely approves.