"For years, a handful of Big Tech companies have used their power to gain control of the UK’s digital infrastructure, locking the government into wasteful contracts and shaping tech policy in their favour."
🗣️ ORG's @jim.killock.org.uk on our new report calling for UK Digital Sovereignty.
“if your problem with open access is that commercial publishers are hoovering up all the money, design open access interventions that specifically prevent commercial publishers from receiving your money.”
This is a comprehensive investigation of patent abuse of a Keytruda & the best I've ever seen patent data visualisation of evergreening practices and the resulting thicket until 2046 - another extra twenty years of patent monopoly right
h/t @clancyny.bsky.social
The Supreme Court's Cox v. Sony Music ruling is three weeks old. It's already being cited to defend an AI video generator that produces Darth Vader on demand. Full story, up now on Copyright Lately:
copyrightlately.com/cox-v-sony-m...
'As anthropologists, we have been conducting ethnographic research since 2022 on how research culture is understood and experienced within the intricate ecosystem of universities.'
Smart piece this: worth a read. 1/2
UK AI policy recs by CREATe—creators (who contract with large content firms) and users (who contract with large digital platforms) need to be separated from industrial interests of AI with different policy measures; but all areas intersect around Research exceptions
www.create.ac.uk/blog/2026/03...
“You might even go so far as to say that Sora was a crude, funhouse mirror-refracted vision of the world Silicon Valley is struggling to birth. Let’s not forget that most people who encountered it found it repulsive.”
www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ais-aesthe...
Australia’s arts and culture cannot be produced overseas, and cannot be moved offshore.
It can only be made here.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4s0JjV2
What would you do to prove you're a real researcher who did the work? My pitch for leaving online breadcrumbs whilst we work medianwatch.netlify.app/post/breadcr...
The point about intergenerational process, training up a next generation of humans, needs a lot more attention and thought. In the short term, will publishers, like universities, turn increasingly to vivas to assess authorship?
Nancy Fraser: “On the colonisation of the lifeworld, I felt that, in essentialising the system/lifeworld distinction, Habermas masked historically specific forms of male domination and missed the transformative potential of feminist movements.”
Nice longread about clock making history @corbeijersbergen.bsky.social
John Harrison is an ancestor of mine. Our family story was not of sole genius either which sat well with my own study of IP history. Sole invention is a modernist trope. It suits commercial logics. It wasn’t his motivation but getting some credit for the science (owned by no-one) mattered.
UPDATE: www.arc.gov.au/news-and-pub... including "Journal articles and conference papers must be made openly accessible immediately upon publication"
I always had the vague feeling that Scientific Reports and Nature Communications are mainly APC business models.
A paper estimated the total APC for gold/hybrid Open Access per journal 2015–2018: doi.org/10.1162/qss_...
Surprise, surprise - there are 2 outliers at the top😐
new jawn from me out today in economy & society on the "subscription economy," part of my larger project on *the paywall society* www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Here is a PhD position in arts law at UNSW investigating AI, copyright and the private regulation of creativity. You'll work with the fantastic @kathybowrey.bsky.social and Louise Buckingham from the Arts Law Centre of Australia, wider team myself and Marie Hadley.
www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...
The UK gvt report on copyright and AI came out yesterday. It’s a step into the right direction, away from initial proposal of default of copyright exemption for training models, but it is hopelessly delusional about the supposed benefits of AI on jobs and public interest.
Hi Friends- I have a PHD scholarship working with the Arts Law Centre of Australia. Please help circulate:
www.unsw.edu.au/law-justice/...
I had a similar experience with Chat GPT transcription of handwritten letters. worked well for first two files but once it predicted roughly what the inquiry was going to be about it then made up later transcriptions to fit the prediction and completely misrepresented the documents and its process.
Just a small blood moon rising last night.
Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.
Much of my work in meta-research is on finding problems in research, so I've seen a lot of bad practices. However, even I was shocked by hundreds of researchers publishing papers using data that is faked and has no data provenance. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6.... Amazing work by my student Alex.
Why do you need AI to do basic authentication though?
This is why we need our institutions to help enforce our moral rights : against false attribution. It should not just be the busy work of academics to tidy up likely AI generated corruption
retractionwatch.com/2026/02/27/r...
I'd appreciate if any audio tech folks could help circulate this exciting call for a fully-funded PhD position working in multichannel audio design for galleries.
It's part of an ARC funded project 'From Noise to Signal: Improving Sonic Experiences in the Gallery'
www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr...
Our universities have to stop normalizing theft out our IP….
Sydney STS folks 👋
Join us for the inaugural event of the Sydney STS Network (Friday 27 Feb) where a panel will respond to the prompt: Why (Australian) STS now? #STS
