...and my a2aj.ca project released a working paper by @simonwallace.bsky.social and me about bulk access to Canadian legal data, the role of @canlii.bsky.social, & our new open-source alternative (a2aj.ca/canadian-legal-data)

Paper is here:

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#WeRobot2025 NEXT PANEL: AI Fairness & Discrimination ft "The Fairness-Accuracy Tradeoff Myth in AI" by @ignaciocofone.bsky.social & "Artificial Intelligence and the Discrimination Injury" by @aselbst.bsky.social with @caryscraig.bsky.social as discussant! static1.squarespace.com/static/66e43... +

It's about turning a million little monopolies into one big one, and using it to pummel independent artists, technologists, and the public. Maybe some day someone will be interested in that version of this story, instead of the same old "You wouldn't steal a car??!" cliches.

And their endgame is never an artists' utopia, it's a world where (as @caryscraig.bsky.social explains) a few big corporations control the creative economy, where no one can make or use creative tools without permission from the biggest copyright incumbent industries.

…as if greater participation in the existing IP system is necessarily progress towards equality. From a critical feminist stance, I caution that this is the kind of second-wave neoliberal thinking that sustains the status quo, reinforcing an IP system that produces inequality and exclusion by design