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Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr Red Team Blues

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Yesterday, the BC appeals court handed down a stupid, terrible decision, rejecting the whistleblower @Linkletter's defense for linking to freely available materials from the ed-tech surveillance giant @proctorio:

bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/ca/23/…

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

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It's been a minute since Linkletter's case arose, so I'll give you a little recap here. Proctorio is a massive, wildly profitable ed-tech company that sells a surveillance tool to monitor students while they take high-stakes tests from home.

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Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/03/09/aut…

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Today (3/9), I'm in person in #Austin at @utsdct:

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And remote at #UManitoba:

eventscalendar.umanitoba.ca/site/science/e…

Tomorrow (3/10), @rgibli and I kick off @sxsw's readings:

schedule.sxsw.com/2023/events/PP… 2/

The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble: Someday, we're gonna feel pretty silly about our autocomplete worship.

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Cory Doctorow

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This week on my podcast, I read my @Medium column, "Big Tech Isn’t Stealing News Publishers’ Content," on how the news media's focus on charging tech firms to link to them is totally misguided, and misses the real issue: the rigging of the ad market.

doctorow.medium.com/big-tech-isnt-… 1/

If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2022/04/18/new… 2/

Countries all over the world - France, Australia, Brazil and now Canada (#BillC11)- have fallen in love with the idea that the answer to the news media's woes is to create a new licensable copyright over "snippets" of news that users post to social media. 3/

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Cory Doctorow

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It's been 15 years since Bucknell U film prof Eric Faden made "A Fair(y) Tale," a short film that explains #FairUse by stringing together short, fair-use-qualifying clips from Disney movies. It remains an amazing accomplishment!

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Fair(y) Tale took 9 months to piece together as Faden painstakingly searched the corpus of Disney animation to find the literal *mots justes* for his video explainer.

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15 years later, Bournemouth's Claudy Op Den Kamp and her students decided to create their own version of Fair(y) Tale - this one explaining UK #FairDealing exceptions to copyright, using clips from #TheSimpsons.

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Walled Culture

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1/🧵 Another week of exciting content on the #WalledCulture blog:
➡️ @glynmoody covered how digital images of #PublicDomain works get captured, why #artist nor #academics should sign away their rights, & why Singapore 🇸🇬 sets an example to follow with its updated Copyright Law 👇

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👉 Cultural digitisation for the many, or cultural depredation for the few: time to choose
walledculture.org/cultural-digit…

#Museums #ArtGalleries #PublicDomain #GLAM #CHIs #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #WalledCulture

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👉 Why are #TaylorSwift and #academics all in the same boat? And why is she more fortunate?
walledculture.org/why-are-taylor…

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