🔥 Time to pull the plug on Big Telco's #FairShare fallacy? Check out this handy recap of our hot items last week showing that #NetworkFees and #DisputeResolution claims are running on empty. #DigitalNetworksAct.

🚨 Italy just reclassified #CDNs as telecom networks. #AGCOM’s decision risks slower services, stifled innovation & higher costs — all to serve legacy telcos. CDNs ≠ telcos. This isn’t fair regulation — it’s protectionism. 🔗#OpenInternet #EU #TechPolicy

AI isn’t just rewriting the rules—it’s forcing us to rethink creativity itself. My July reading list explores copyright, culture & compensation in the age of AI. 📚 Read more:

🔥 Will the US-EU trade deal put a stop to #NetworkFees? Don’t celebrate just yet!.This might change nothing as the EC switched to "dispute resolution," not fees. Moreover, the EC claims it made “no commitment on digital regulation”. 🔗 #DigitalNetworksAct.

@internetarchive @KR21org @LERU_SG @LERUnews @guildeu @sergejmozina @SturmThomasK @icreacommunity @UABBarcelona @vlaamseoverheid @PlumConsulting 4/ 🤖 AI lab.🔸 Reflections on:.Japan's approach.The research sector’s missing voice.labelling & the EU AI Act.AI & journalism.🔸 Publications: A @techdirt blog post series on rethinking the intersection of AI, creativity & policy.

@internetarchive @KR21org @LERU_SG @LERUnews @guildeu @sergejmozina @SturmThomasK @icreacommunity @UABBarcelona @vlaamseoverheid 3/ 🌐 internet lab.Hot Item with Benoît Felten unpacking a @PlumConsulting report on dispute resolution & EU’s #DigitalNetworksAct (DNA).Reflection on the ‘level playing field’ ideas in the DNA. ©️ copyright lab.Reflection on the Article 15 #DCDSM missing money trail.

@internetarchive 2/ 🧠 innovation lab.New #5thFreedom capsules in collaboration with @KR21org.@LERU_SG | @LERUnews.Julien Chicot | @guildeu.@sergejmozina | Slovenian EU Permanent Representation/#ERAForum.@SturmThomasK | @icreacommunity/@UABBarcelona.Peter Spyns | @vlaamseoverheid.

1/ 🗞️ information labs June-July 2025 recap.🔗 ☀️ Summer: We're back in late August.📢 Our Future Memory campaign: Learn about this initiative by the @internetarchive Europe & our take on why libraries need a #DigitalFairnessAc to #ProtectOurFutureMemory

🔥 20 European telco CEOs push network fees disguised as “mandatory arbitration” in new letter to EC. Same old Big Telco playbook, demanding a “fair share" while framing it as a “level playing field.” Learn why a majority considers this a bad idea:

Article 15 was supposed to save journalism by making Big Tech pay. 5 years later: millions paid, zero accountability. No one knows where the money went. New blog on the democratic failure no one’s tracking.👇.#EU #Article15 #Journalism #Copyright #AIpolicy

2/ #DigitalNetworksAct statements:.2️⃣Concerns on access regulation by leading national & European pro-competitive telecom associations, who caution against abandoning Europe’s current model, benefiting European consumers and businesses.🔗 .#DigitalEU

1/🔥 It’s joint statement season with the EC call for evidence on the #DigitalNetworksAct (DNA) closing today, 11 July!.1️⃣ Call to preserve #NetNeutrality by a broad-based group of 84 stakeholders rejecting large telcos’ #FairShare/#NetworkFees push.🔗

EU Libraries are renting knowledge under Delaware law, barred from AI, and liable for student clicks. It’s 2025, not a dystopian novel. The #DigitalFairnessAct must end this circus—memory institutions guard our future memory. 📚 #ProtectOurFutureMemory

🔥Hot Item: Dispute Resolution or Regulatory Trojan Horse?🔥.A new @PlumConsulting report, featuring insights from Benoît Felten, explores how the EU’s Digital Networks Act could risk backfiring. 📺Watch:: 📄Report: #DigitalEU

Can Europe make the 5th Freedom a reality? 🇪🇺.In our new #5thFreedom episode, Peter Spyns breaks down how the #ERA, the "knowledge cube," and real policy tools can turn vision into action. 🎧 📺 #EUPolicy #OpenScience

“Ceci n’est pas un Level Playing Field.”. The @EU_Commission is opening the door to a gatekeeper internet. Dispute resolution? A telco power play. Clarification? A threat to #OpenInternet. 📢 Have your say here: 📝 Full blog: .

Caroline De Cock (@the_info_labs) explains AI regulation through the classic tale of the “blind men & the elephant”, where tunnel-vision regulation risks ushering in a “data winter” where AI lacks quality input. 📖 Read on @techdirt .👉 #AI #TechPolicy.

🧠 The #5thFreedom is more than a metaphor—it’s a roadmap for Europe’s future. @SturmThomasK calls for a borderless #ERA where researchers, knowledge & funding move freely. Let’s make it a right, not just a goal!.🎧.📺#ERAAct #EU

Journalism isn’t dying because of AI. It’s evolving with it. 🧠From small newsrooms using AI to break big stories, to giants like NYT & FT rethinking how they work: the bots are boosting, not busting, the press. Brussels, take note.⬇️.#AI #journalism #EU

🔥 @Euractiv’s @theophane_h analyses who stands to win & lose from the EC’s deregulation push in the upcoming #Digital Networks Act. 🏆 Winners: A few billionaires owning large telecom groups. 😟 Losers: European consumers & businesses.🔗 #DNA #DigitalEU

🚀 Time to make the #5thFreedom reality!.Sergej Možina calls for turning ideas into infrastructure: let researchers, knowledge & tech circulate freely across 🇪🇺. 🎧 .📺 #ERA #EU #EUpolicy #OpenScience