The need to enable #libraries and others to safeguard collections for the future means that there's a pressing need to ensure #copyright laws don't stand in the way of progress Model laws offer an excellent way of doing this! @MattVoigts for @IFLA at @KEI_DC side event #SCCR43

@KEI_DC What is the role of model laws in norm setting for intellectual property? #SCCR43 @WIPO Tuesday, 14 March 2023

CEBS group goes first, unfortunately reiterating the same old position about no need for international action, despite overwhelming evidence of the need for solutions for cross-border work We believe in #preservation, but some things should be left in the past... #SCCR43

Libraries need clear rules backed by law to support online education, research and digital access to library collections. @EIFLnet at #WIPO Assemblies 2022

Very strong statement on the challenges for access to knowledge, given publisher litigation over scholarly works, by Gopa Kumar of TWN at WIPO GA.

Happy to be at @WIPO in Geneva today, representing @IFLA at the General Assembly to speak in support of international #IP policy that provides better, clearer limitations & exceptions to #copyright for digital access and preservation across borders.

#sccr42 concludes, with some progress on structuring work around #copyrightexceptions, including cross-border, but also frustrations linked to developed country intransigence and failure to consider the interests of #libraries, #schools, and #research at home

Thank you! It's great to be at @UN @WIPO #SCCR42 this week in Geneva, supporting the interests of libraries for @IFLA in calling for greater flexibility (and exceptions & limitations to copyright) to share & preserve materials amid the challenges of the moment and the future.

I wrote about 3 great movies that DIDN'T get Oscar nominations this year: Pig, Listening to Kenny G, and The Disciple, comparing their ideas about the relationships between art, truth and popularity: https://t.co/WgC7KZv24o

I wrote about the unfortunate singularity of #LinkedIn profiles in the modern #jobsearch, and how to break a cycle where "career trajectories may be getting more varied [but] getting hired often demands a more and more rigid career narrative" https://t.co/tzZdbS9YiX

Looking forward to reading: "Each chapter unpacks lazy and harmful assumptions made by developers when designing AI... to ask: why are there so many pointless, and even dangerously flawed, AI systems?" https://t.co/TxNdOrb9jo

I wrote again about 'truth' in our current media landscape and contemporary depictions of the Middle Ages, this time contrasting the urgency of The Last Duel with the playfulness of last week's subject, Eco's novel Baudolino: https://t.co/0S3y5eJ2JI

I read Eco's Baudolino (2000) and wrote about the book's exploration of how strange unreliable things get written down for "reasons justifiable, personal, petty, or (sometimes) because someone wanted to liven things up." As history goes, so the Internet? https://t.co/mFLlvF0Lt1

"The UK government has today launched one of the world’s first national standards for algorithmic transparency...[following recommendations for] a mandatory transparency obligation on public sector organisations using algorithms" https://t.co/ButYu8RSIk

"Applications that should be prohibited include government “social scoring” systems that judge people based on their behavior and certain AI-based tools that categorize people into clusters such as by ethnicity or gender." https://t.co/8Up5PubEGP

Hey! I'm thrilled this week to ask "Why is This Not a Movie?" of The Wright Brothers and turn-of-the-century aviation. Have a listen on Apple or Spotify!

We are ready to go LIVE in five minutes for our final brain-controlled show of the summer! Join us at: https://t.co/zxAdnFriCT #livecinema #experimentalfilm

Today (19:30 BST / 13:30 CST) and Saturday (20:00 BST / 14:00 CST): we're screening the brain-controlled movie "The Moment" with live score! Today's screening only, #STS historian of science @FloraLysen will join the Q&A. Come check it out!

Among musician Scrubber Fox (center) & director Richard Ramchurn's previous projects was a 2005 Internet TV show where Scrubber & Frank Sidebottom were guests. 🎼 More Scrubber https://t.co/HLe76y3y6F 🧠July 29 show https://t.co/Eg6HUTeYll 🧠July 31 show https://t.co/zxAdnFriCT

Thanks @DavidKordahl for offering your take on @MindMovie at @3QD! And, to pull a positive quote, calling the movie "a humanistic enterprise that brings cinema closer to... live theater, incorporating new methods while retaining the traditional pleasures of the movies."