Creating and sharing knowledge are defining traits of humankind, yet copyright law has grown so restrictive that it can require acts of civil disobedience to ensure that students and scholars have the books they need. Unless publishing gatekeepers adopt drastically more equitable practices and become partners in disseminating knowledge, they will continue to lose ground to open access alternatives, legal or otherwise.

Unless publishing gatekeepers adopt drastically more equitable practices and become partners in disseminating knowledge, they will continue to lose ground to open access alternatives, legal or otherwise.

  • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    7 hours ago

    Funny how that plays out, considering the data collection of LLMs have to dance around the copyright issue.

    Not that I agree with many of people that say looking at a picture and adjusting weights is considered “stealing an image”.