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.

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

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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.

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...

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.

New report calls for return of human remains – but UK museums lack the resources to act

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 ...

www.yorku.ca/yfile/2025/0...

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

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...)

Thanks so much for sharing, Melissa! We don’t have one… (yet!). 🙏🏻

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 ...

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.

The CommonsDB website and newsletter have been released.

🚀 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...

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

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.

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...

The Synthetic Knowledge Crisis How AI is Reshaping Knowledge, and Not for the Better

‘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...

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 🙏

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.

A page of 52 thumbnail images of government websites that are no longer available.

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.

Surely this must be an essential qualification for the job. #leadership

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!

From Open Access to Collective Governance, report cover with branded Open Future background

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

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

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.

#EPDD25 Merete Sanderhoff gives a shout out to @andeewallace.bsky.social 's excellent 3D models & rights management report pro.europeana.eu/post/3d-mode...

Hiiiii!!!!! Great to see you here! 💕💕💕

Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery

Announcement also at www.glamelab.org/products/roy... if you feel there's too much video news in the world already…

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...

Exeter's GLAM-E Lab and Royal Albert Memorial Museum announce a new collaboration and open access strategy. Video announcement at youtu.be/4s6aG2jHPIQ