Paul Keller

I have been a paid subscriber to @404media.co since pretty much day 1. Easily the best $100 you can spend on the internet. Yesterday I accidentally heard their podcast with ads—I’d probably pay $100 just to avoid those cringe-worthy things alone.

Licensing, Levies, and the Limits of Copyright – Open Future MEP Axel Voss questions his own copyright framework while offering insights on remuneration and transparency for AI.

📝 Voss's draft report on copyright & AI shows irony: questions his own framework only to circle back to it. His focus on remuneration and transparency offers pathways to a more sustainable information ecosystem.

Read @paulk.bsky.social’s analysis: openfuture.eu/blog/licensi...

Are such complaints publicly available somewhere?

well they do (they just don't call it passkeys)

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Beyond AI and copyright – Open Future This White Paper calls for a levy on commercial AI systems to fund public infrastructures and ensure a sustainable Digital Knowledge Commons in the generative AI era.

📄 New White Paper: "Beyond AI & Copyright: Funding a Sustainable Information Ecosystem."
@paulk.bsky.social examines how AI impacts information control, argues for public AI models, and proposes a levy system on commercial AI services to support the digital commons.

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public support for independent online public media initiatives is something that has been exceedingly rare, and the DP programme pointed to an possible future that did not leave all of the digital space to commercial platforms.

This destroyed so much more than just that. in the years before the ministry experimented funding for social media initiatives(as in media produced by civil society). this initiative (de digitale pioniersregeling was also abruptly killed.

CommonsDB Feasibility Study: Building the Future of Digital Commons – Open Future This study outlines how CommonsDB is creating a registry of Public Domain and openly licensed works to improve legal certainty when reusing digital content.

The first part of CommonsDB Feasibility Study—by @paulk.bsky.social, @culturedoug.bsky.social, @posth.me, @jpquintais.bsky.social, @theflyinglawyer.bsky.social, and Thomas Margon—anticipates launching the first public version of the registry after summer.

Download: openfuture.eu/publication/...

CommonsDB Feasibility Study: Laying the Groundwork for a Rights Registry The first part of the CommonsDB Feasibility Study has been published

Yesterday we published the first part of a feasibility study for CommonsDB—laying out the design principles for the public registry of Public Domain and openly licensed works that we are currently building. Next step: the first prototype, coming after the summer: www.commonsdb.org/blog/feasibi...

In case you missed our Salon on this misguided proposal from France, read @cmfrancoise.bsky.social's summary on our blog or watch the recording at the link below:

Europe was promised a new golden age of the night train. Why are we still waiting? | Jon Worth Romance, excitement and sustainability – continent-crossing sleeper trains should be a hit. It’s time for the EU to catch on, says writer and campaigner Jon Worth

Excellent piece by @jonworth.eu: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I am taking a night train once or twice a year. When everything works it can be magic (have dinner with friends in Berlin, and breakfast with the family in Amsterdam the next morning) but there is so much unrealized potential!

The obvious answer to this consultation is that the biggest challenge posed by electronic communications is that it has become so cheap that @ec.europa.eu can run a year-round #DDoS attack on stakeholders—by launching one consultation after another.

Do AI models dream of dolphins in lake Balaton? - Kluwer Copyright Blog There is a bit of excitement in copyright circles about the first case referred to the CJEU that directly addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the EU copyright framework.…

The 🤖💭🐬 case referred to the CJEU focuses not on AI model training issues, but rather on questions arising from their use. Read @paulk.bsky.social's analysis of the first EU court case addressing AI and copyright:
copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/05/28/d...

Seems to me that the underlying assumption of both Acts — that businesses don’t share data because they lack regulatory certainty — might simply be wrong. Seems more likely that businesses dont share data because they view it as a competitive asset. And that’s not something EU regulation can change.

That’s an excellent question — one I’ve been asking myself as well. They are both a bit of a grab bag of measures, but I have yet to see evidence of real impact toward the stated regulatory objective: stimulating the data economy through more data sharing.

Do AI models dream of dolphins in lake Balaton? - Kluwer Copyright Blog There is a bit of excitement in copyright circles about the first case referred to the CJEU that directly addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the EU copyright framework. The...

🐬 @paulk.bsky.social analyzes the first CJEU case on AI and copyright, "Like Company v Google," which examines AI chatbots (wrongly) summarizing online content.
Important for anyone tracking AI and copyright law developments.
copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/05/28/d...

Do AI models dream of dolphins in lake Balaton? - Kluwer Copyright Blog There is a bit of excitement in copyright circles about the first case referred to the CJEU that directly addresses the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and the EU copyright framework. The...

New blog post: The recent #CJEU referral is a poor test case for clarifying how the EU #copyright framework applies to AI training. The underlying dispute concerns the use of content with a trained model (RAG), not the training process itself. copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/05/28/d...

Data Commons Can Save Open AI Recent progress in open datasets shows promise for building fully open AI models without legal constraints.

Where’s the Open Data? Hugging the Crawl
🆕 Major open dataset releases in 2024 focus on refining existing data rather than creating new sources. Check details and learn more about data commons and open source AI in this article by @alek.bsky.social for @thenewstack.io
thenewstack.io/data-commons...

Panel (from left to right): Kristina Irion (Moderator), Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Arieën Molema, Yordanka Ivanova and Zuzanna Warso

#CPDP2025 panel organized by @ivir-uva.bsky.social on the still unresolved question when a summary of GPAI training data is "sufficiently detailed".

Despite the clear case for openness and transparency the European Commission's template for transparency reporting is still missing in action.

Public AI - white Paper cover, with Open Future's branded image background.

📄 New White Paper on Public AI, a joint effort with @bertelsmannst.bsky.social.

The report presents an alternative to today's AI landscape dominated by tech companies: Public AI systems.

⬇️ Download the PDF version: www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/de/publikati...

"Governing the scholarly AI Commons" report cover with Open Future background image.

🤖 How can academic communities regain control over AI in knowledge production? New report by Open Future fellow @samuelmoore.org explores governance strategies for the "scholarly commons".
Read more ⬇️
openfuture.eu/publication/...

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Last chance to register! ⏰
Next week, on May 12, COMMUNIA will host an online Salon on unfair licensing practices.
Registrations close on Friday, COB, so be quick! 🏃💨
communia-association.org/event/commun...

A portrait photo of a baby girl in a dress.

2 April 1942 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Mietje Blok, was born in The Hague.

She arrived at #Auschwitz on 14 December 1942 in a transport of 757 Jews deported from the occupied Netherlands. She was among the 636 people murdered after selection in a gas chamber.

The latest Open Future newsletter has been published.

🔔 Our March newsletter is out. We write about the new #CommonsDB initiative, welcome our new colleague @adityaxsingh.bsky.social, and update you on our copyright and public digital infrastructure work.

Subscribe to get future issues in your inbox: mailchi.mp/openfuture/d...

pretty dystopian vibes in the @nsinternational.com lounge at Rotterdam Central station. Count me among the "detractors".

AI training data obtention flowchart

New blog post: The EU's AI Code of Practice treats web scraping as the main copyright concern–but what about BitTorrent and other data sources? 🤔 @paulk.bsky.social reflects on why this matters for AI training data.

Read more: openfuture.eu/blog/is-web-...

Is web scraping the only copyright concern for AI? Last week the working group chairs in charge of developing the code of practice for providers of General Purpose AI models published the third draft of the code for comments and feedback. We find a ra...

Last week, the third draft of the Code of Practice for General Purpose #AI was released. It contains a rather curious limitation, as @paulk.bsky.social points out on the COMMUNIA blog. Is web scraping really the only concern for AI?

Read more below ⤵️
communia-association.org/2025/03/21/i...

​​CommonsDB: A Foundation for Transparent Digital Rights Information Funded by the European Commission, the CommonsDB initiative is building a prototype registry of Public Domain and openly licensed works.

🚀 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...