The photograph competition Wiki Loves Monuments is now live in 27 countries!
Do you want to know what countries are participating in September, and which ones are still lined up to join in October?
Have a look at the list on our website: https://www.wikilovesmonuments.org/participate/
(It's in Spanish, and worth translating if you don’t speak the language).
Jorge argues that the emerging tensions around AI and intellectual property are a tension between two business sectors: the technology and the publishing firms. And it largely ignores the interests and rights of creatives, other professionals (benefitting from free knowledge / free culture) and users.
He acknowledges what I call the #ParadoxofOpen: that corporations benefit disproportionately from the commons (and the case of generative AI training is one more example of that) - but argues that this is not a reason for a ‘reactionary’ approach that constraints the commons.
And finally there’s a smart take on the right to cultural expression and how that plays out with regard to access to generative AI systems.