It is unacceptable that a number of EU member states impose restrictions on the use of #culturalheritage that is in the #PublicDomain! Today, we are releasing our Policy Paper #20, in which we develop a proposal for a right to use Public Domain heritage: communia-association.org/2024/06/17/new…

Nieprawdopodobne. Najpierw panika moralna z powodu niepełnej relacji medialnej o strzałach na granicy, a teraz to. W tym art. 25a pkt 4 k.k., który dosłownie zmienia mundurowych w tego złola z "Zabójczej broni 2". - Rzuć broń! - Co, jaką bro.. <strzela> - LOL, KONTRATYP!

POV: you are waiting for your panel during an IP conference and right where you're sitting, an enterprising student wrote down the protection periods of various industrial property rights to have it at the ready during an exam. Even semiconductor topographies are included!

"YOU WOULDN'T TRAIN A GENERATIVE AI MODEL" vibes. I wonder how replicable these musical regurgitations are. From this: riaa.com/wp-content/upl…

Justice Sotomayor's dissent is one of the most terrified and terrifying pieces of judicial writing I've ever encountered—she lists the criminal acts that presidents can now take with immunity and says "the president is now a king above the law." supremecourt.gov/opinions/23pdf…

Ponarzekałem sobie.

Some thoughts about AG Szpunar's opinion in C-159/23 Sony, including how the whole communication to the public jurisprudence will (probably) not be extended over other exclusive rights in EU copyright. Many thanks to Alina Trapova and João Pedro Quintais! copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2024/07/08/how…

After refreshing "2010: The Year We Make Contact" (a criminally underrated sequel) I keep thinking why instead of AI programmed for "accurate processing of information without distortion or concealment" we ended up with hallucinating/bulshitting LLMs😑

A bit late to this one, but there's been a development in the Github Copilot case. This is the most advanced of the US cases as it was the first filed. There's been an order granting to dismiss some claims and denying some claims. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

A friend, a senior political scientist, now faces constant paper rejections after moving from a top Western EU university to a second-best one in a post-communist CEE country. Editors of top journals, please reflect on how you might be contributing to Western hegemony in science

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🇵🇱😢We now have scientific proof that Poles consider a positive conversation about Good Things as superficial and insincere, and at the same time, a session of mutual kvetching and complaining about how Bad Things are is something we value and bond over.

Oh, those blasted eco-activists blocking the traffic because the streets are flooded due to catastrophic torrential rains...oh, wait.

So, I was reading something recently and I got to the part that made me think "what kind of idiot wrote this". Only then did I realize - that idiot was me. Is that some kind of a career milestone?

How I feel before the conference next week.

"Które prawo dla nas a które prawo dla nich" - śpiewał dawno temu Kazik Staszewski, ale nie wiem, czy miał na myśli to, co tu się właśnie wydarzyło. Rządy w 2015-2013 udowodniły, że żadne zasady i żadna "praworządność" nie powstrzymają woli politycznej i mamy piękną kontynuację.

So, my twitter feed is 1/3 Polish rule-of-law shenanigans ("as Prime Minister, I annulled something that may not be annulled, witness me"), 1/3 Draghi report ("EU will die unless...") and 1/3 climate crisis ("we will all die in a live action Mad Max..."). Optimism overflows 🥰

Yesterday, I sat next to a dude listening to very loud music. Couldn't help it - I peeked on his phone. He wrote a mean post, switched to ChatGPT and asked AI to "make the joke meaner". Then he rushed to post it literally when the plane was taking off. Technology is wonderful!

A propos zmiany praktyki: jedną z najważniejszych studenckich lekcji życiowych odebrałem w 2005. Uchylono wtedy, uchwałą rady wydziału, limit ECTS możliwych do uzyskania w roku. Potem dziekan obwieścił, że limit 75 ECTS dalej obowiązuje. Został wprowadzony "w drodze wykładni".