We recently published our Recommended Legal & Licensing Terms for climate data. We are hosting a free webinar with Openscapes to discuss CC’s open climate data project & the recommendations. Hope you can be there. loom.ly/ze1c-m4

Why is the The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center:
❌ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible
❌ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link
🔗⤵️ pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024…

'There is an urgent need to reaffirm a view of the Internet as not just a Hobbesian cyberspace but a domain of cooperation and shared responsibility.'

📷Read our latest blog post from Jan Krewer on Germany's international #digital #strategy .
openfuture.eu/blog/raising-t…

💌Our February newsletter is out:
✦ Check out our new #CallforFellows 🧑‍🎤
✦ Join our Alignment Assembly on #AI and the Commons #DigitalCommons
✦ Sign up for the event on #OpenInternet standards
Sign up & access the issue: mailchi.mp/openfuture/fel…

The Copyright Directive might sound like old news, but some parts of it (filtering!) are still fresh or even urgent; and others are re-emerging as relevant (TDM!).
That's why the review of copyright rules across Europe done by Teresa Nobre and communia team is important.

The government has finally published its response to the AI White Paper consultation, and it’s still lacking any practical steps to get AI under democratic control. Here are my hot takes.

gov.uk/government/con…

A set of 7 policy recommendations for Europe's #DigitalDecade , based on our work on Digital Public Space and Digital Commons.

Jan Krewer joins Open Future as a Senior Policy Analyst, bringing a decade of expertise in policy work. In his role, Jan will strengthen our work on #DigitalCommons and lead on activities in the EU-funded NGI Commons project: openfuture.eu/blog/meet-jan-…

With Benoît de Courson and Benjamin Azoulay from Gallicagram we are releasing on Hugging Face what is probably the largest open corpus in French: 85 billon words in the public domain. huggingface.co/datasets/PleIA… huggingface.co/datasets/PleIA…

It is almost midnight #2024 #NewYear . #mickeymouse be like #publicdomain (in the 🇺🇸 that is - most of the world need to wait for 2037)

It’s done.