Another Milestone on our Journey: the Walled Culture Book is out. Learn more about it here or download the free ebook PDF | Walled Culture - the BookePub | Walled Culture - the Bookmobi | Walled Culture - the BookPaperback & More info Massive expansion of Italy’s Piracy Shield underway despite growing criticism of its …
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12.3.2025 13:01Comment on Massive expansion of Italy’s Piracy Shield underway despite growing criticism of its flaws by TV & Radio FeedWalled Culture has been following closely Italy’s poorly-designed Piracy Shield system. Back in December we reported how copyright companies used their access to the Piracy Shield system to order Italian Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to all of Google Drive for the entire country, and how malicious actors could similarly use that unchecked …
12.3.2025 13:00Massive expansion of Italy’s Piracy Shield underway despite growing criticism of its flawsOne of the many interesting aspects of the new wave of artificial intelligence systems is that with them, copyright has moved from the fringe to centre stage. There are continuing debates about what role copyright should play in the world of generative AI, not to mention various lawsuits asking the courts to rule on that …
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12.2.2025 13:41Comment on Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether Shakespeare is in the public domain by Glyn MoodyOne of the darker threads of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is how complex copyright enforcement systems can be abused, for example by sending Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown requests for material that is perfectly legal. A recent post on the Public Citizen blog offers an extreme example of this blight. …
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3.2.2025 13:52Comment on From DeepSeek to Stargate: How dramatic AI developments will re-shape the copyright landscape by DebbyWalled Culture started covering generative AI relatively early, back in October 2022. That’s just two years ago, and yet the technological progress since then has been extraordinary, whatever you think about the other issues gen AI raises. The latest breakthrough is particularly interesting because it has come from China. The site Live Science explains why …
29.1.2025 13:00From DeepSeek to Stargate: How dramatic AI developments will re-shape the copyright landscapeWalled Culture has noted previously the fabulous levels of profit that many academic publishers have achieved, largely through the abuse of copyright, as explained in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions). And yet those levels are apparently not enough for perhaps the most successful of the academic publishers, Elsevier. A story on the site …
15.1.2025 13:00Publisher’s cost cutting, including the botched use of AI, pushes editors of top journal to resignNumerous articles here on Walled Culture have chronicled the struggles to turn the aspirations of open access to knowledge into reality. The central reason people do not have free digital access to all academic knowledge is that publishers have been successful in subverting attempts to provide it. Publishers are strongly motivated to undermine open access, …
18.12.2024 13:00India spends $715 million on academic journals, but with the wrong kind of open accessLast week, an interesting problem with the generative AI system ChatGPT emerged, reported here by Ars Technica: people discovered that the name “David Mayer” breaks ChatGPT. 404 Media also discovered that the names “Jonathan Zittrain” and “Jonathan Turley” caused ChatGPT to cut conversations short. And we know another name, likely the first, that started the …
11.12.2024 13:00How modern Mountweasels could block generative AI and undermine access to knowledgeWalled Culture has been following the sorry saga of Italy’s automated blocking system Piracy Shield for a year now. Blocklists are drawn up by copyright companies, without any review, or the possibility of any objections, and those blocks must be enforced within 30 minutes. Needless to say, such a ham-fisted and biased approach to copyright …
4.12.2024 13:00Why Italy’s Piracy Shield risks moving from tiresome digital farce to serious national tragedyThe perennial attempts to widen the reach of copyright in the pursuit of yet more revenue is something that is to be expected from companies. After all, maximising profits is basically what companies do. But as previous Walled Culture posts have lamented, there is also a widespread tendency among non-profit cultural institutions – museums, art …
27.11.2024 13:00How copyright chaos reigns among the UK’s top cultural institutionsA couple of weeks ago, Walled Culture wrote about the deeply unsatisfactory process for obtaining exemptions to the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s ban on the circumvention of copyright protection measures. As the post explained, meaningful and useful exemptions are blocked by the copyright industry as a matter of course, and only the tiniest and …
20.11.2024 13:00Canada’s new right-to-repair exemptions to copyright law are as useful as a chocolate teapotIn reply to <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Snowshadow/112682968692581367">Snowshadow</a>. Can you please tell me the words of the link that doesn't work? I've checked all the links, and they work here...
15.7.2024 15:52By: Glyn MoodyIn reply to <a href="https://walledculture.org/a-rare-copyright-win-for-the-public-but-a-small-one-only-in-canada-and-possibly-temporary/#comment-4">Glyn Moody</a>. <a href="https://walledculture.org/@walledculture.org" rel="ugc">@walledculture.org</a> The one in yuour post...it doesn't work and it's not highlighted in blue.
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