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Facts, ideas, discussions about 🔥hot 🇪🇺 digital topics: #AI, #MediaFreedom #InternetValueChain #NetNeutrality #Copyright
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🔥 Another bump in the road for the EC’s #DigitalNetworksAct?!
@theophane.euractiv.com reports that Germany prefers a Directive over a Regulation.
The ride gets rougher: first a delay, now Germany's suggesting a different route entirely.
🔗 www.euractiv.com/news/germany...
November 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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It Is Time to Put Research First in Europe!
In our #5thFreedom series, Stephen Wyber of @ifla.org explores how the ERA Act could open access, empower libraries, and put research at the heart of EU policy.
🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/9063bef3
📺 youtu.be/TeEUGZji3lM
#SciencePolicy #EUPolicy #ERA
November 6, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Shaping the Future of Our Past with AI
AI isn’t a threat to culture — it’s a partner in preserving it.
Watch Humans of AI, our new series on how tech keeps memory alive.
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#DigitalPreservation #CulturalHeritage
Shaping the Future of our Past with AI: “Humans of AI” and World Digital Preservation Day
<p>This week at Information Labs, we are celebrating a powerful convergence. Yesterday, November 4th, we premiered the first episode of our new video series, Humans…</p>
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November 5, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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We’re thrilled to launch our new Humans of AI podcast!
Prof. @melissaterras.bsky.social of @transkribus.bsky.social — a cooperative AI platform transforming how libraries, archives, and museums bring history to life.
🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/ce0399b5
📺 youtu.be/qK5x4j7jiuQ
#AI #CulturalHeritage
November 4, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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🔥 20 January 2026: A New Date for the DNA to Land?
The latest tentative agenda for upcoming College of Commissioners meetings suggests the possible adoption of the #DigitalNetworksAct proposal on 20 January 2026 in Strasbourg.
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#DisputeResolution
November 4, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Oct 2025 information labs recap
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/octobe...
⇒ #5thFreedom with @eesc.bsky.social's Dr Paul Rübig & @communia.bsky.social's @justusdreyling.bsky.social
⇒ #DigitalSovereignty reflections
⇒ 3-part post on #GenAI, copyright & #TDM
⇒ ‘F’ for EC #DigitalNetworksAct impact assessment
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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🔥 A fight is brewing in Italy about #CDNs!
Italian regulator #AGCOM gets pushback from @cloudflare.social and @netflix.com for its attempt to reclassify CDNs as Electronic Communications Networks.
A move that was criticised by others for opening the door to #NetworkFees!
#DNA
November 3, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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When AWS went dark for 14 hours, half the internet followed.
Europe’s answer? “Digital sovereignty.”
But control isn’t resilience. Power lies in design, not in slogans.
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#DigitalSovereignty #TechPolicy
The Great AWS Outage: A 14-Hour Lesson in Fragility and the Folly of “Digital Sovereignty”
<p>Monday 20 October wasn’t just another day; it was the day a significant chunk of the internet stumbled, tripped, and fell flat on its face….</p>
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October 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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🔥 #DigitalNetworksAct (DNA) Impact Assessment: Pass or fail?
On 22 Oct, the EU Regulatory Scrutiny Board reviewed the EC's DNA impact assessment.
From what we hear, the Board took out a red pen, and F is the outcome, implying a possible pushback till 2026.
What have you heard?
October 24, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Is it time to give the 5th Freedom its breakthrough?
In our #5thFreedom series, @justusdreyling.bsky.social shows how the #ERA Act can make knowledge flow freely—unlocking faster science, stronger innovation & a more competitive Europe.
🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/896317d7
📺 youtu.be/y7-sf2OvnFU
October 23, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Europe can write the rules, but it doesn’t build the tools.
“Digital sovereignty” sounds decisive — until you ask what it means.
Power isn’t in the slogan, it’s in the capacity to create.
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#DigitalSovereignty #EUPolicy #Tech #Innovation
Digital Sovereignty: Europe’s Favourite (Empty) Buzzword
<p>Austria has kicked off the latest effort to define what “digital sovereignty” actually means for Europe. Vienna has shared the first draft of a non-binding…</p>
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October 22, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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🔥 A reality check on European telecom health!
Timely evidence for the #DigitalNetworksAct: A new study for @cciaeurope.bsky.social concludes that the overall story is positive, contrary to incumbent operators’ “gloomy narrative”.
🔗 The study: www.commcham.com/telco-finances
#DNA #FairShare
October 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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Building a Europe Where Knowledge Flows Freely!
In our new #5thFreedom episode, Dr. Paul Rübig shares why free knowledge flow is key to Europe’s future.
🎧 share.transistor.fm/s/c423db96
📺 youtu.be/qtXZUOQv6x0
#EUPolicy #Innovation
October 16, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Is training AI on copyrighted material legal in the EU?
Yes — under the Text & Data Mining (TDM) exceptions. The “loophole” narrative? Misleading.
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#Copyright #AIRegulation
AI Training and EU Copyright: Is It Legal? A Deep Dive into the TDM Exception
<p>A central legal question in the discourse surrounding GenAI is whether training models on copyrighted data is lawful. At EU level, certain stakeholders are pushing…</p>
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October 15, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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AI ≠ only about art & entertainment.
🧬 In healthcare: diagnosing fractures & epilepsy.
🚢 In supply chains: forecasting & logistics.
💊 In science: designing new drugs & materials.
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The Hidden History: Why Modern Generative AI Is Older Than You Think
<p>The recent explosion of tools like ChatGPT has fueled a narrative that GenAI is a sudden, recent phenomenon. This idea, however, is a “historical fiction”…</p>
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October 8, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Generative AI didn’t start with ChatGPT. 🚫
From ELIZA (1960s) → GANs (2014) → Transformers (2017), the foundations were laid long before the hype.
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#AIHistory #GenAI
October 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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information labs August-September 2025 recap

🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/august...

AI LAB
- Reflections on:
• The Danish Presidency’s #AI conference
• #Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement
• #Cloudflare’s “pay-per-crawl” plan
• The #Gikii2025 conference

& more!
September 30, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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"AI in education is not a tech problem. It’s a cultural challenge, a democratic challenge, and a governance challenge," Caroline De Cock reflects after a recent Google Cloud #Education Policy Series Roundtable in Brussels.
Learn more: www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-edu...
#AI
AI in Education - Reflections from the Google Cloud Education Policy Series Roundtable
1. Between Bans and Breakthroughs It started with a casual remark in a conversation about the use of AI in certain colleges, where I discovered AI tools had been banned altogether.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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Still thinking about the Gikii 2025 conference. The "Villain Era" theme was fun, but it shows a common policy trap: regulating technology.
My take: We need tech-neutral laws on harmful behavior—Anything else is writing rules that are obsolete.
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#Gikii2025
Is Technology Really in its Villain Era? Reflections from Gikii 2025 @ IVIR Amsterdam
<p>There’s a certain magic to the Gikii conference, and this year’s gathering at the University of Amsterdam’s @Institute for Information Law (IViR) was no exception….</p>
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September 24, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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🔥 Another #FairShare push? 8 EU telecom CEOs call for ambitious #DigitalNetworksAct (DNA) to boost investment, echoing Draghi’s report.
The EC's choice: side with telcos or listen to opposition against payment obligations.
A reminder of the DNA stakes: informationlabs.org/ceci-nest-pa...
September 23, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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🚧 Cloudflare’s “pay-per-crawl” sounds like a win for creators. But it risks breaking the open web—blocking archives, accessibility, and research while creating a 2-tier internet.
The cure may kill the patient.
👉 informationlabs.org/walling-off-...
#OpenWeb #Cloudflare #AI
Walling Off the Web: How Cloudflare’s Plan to ‘Save’ Content Could Break the Internet
<p>The economics of the open web are changing at a breathtaking pace. For two decades, the implicit bargain was simple: creators produce content, and in…</p>
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September 17, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Anthropic's $1.5B settlement is NOT the AI copyright reckoning you think it is.
It's a story about data sourcing and a punitive legal system, NOT the illegality of AI training itself. A HUGE distinction.
Read more: informationlabs.org/anthropics-1...
#AI #Copyright #FairUse #Anthropic
Anthropic’s $1.5 Billion Settlement: Not the AI Copyright Reckoning You Think It Is
<p>You’ve probably seen the headlines: AI company Anthropic has agreed to a landmark $1.5 billion settlement with book authors and publishers. It’s been hailed as…</p>
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September 8, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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The Danish Presidency's AI & Copyright conference is pure policy capture: an echo chamber for Big Tech & entertainment, with zero voices from research, education, or libraries. The EU needs a bigger table, not a louder echo chamber.
Read more: informationlabs.org/an-echo-cham...
#AI #Copyright #EU
An Echo Chamber in Copenhagen: The Danish Presidency’s AI Conference Forgets Who Creates the Future
<p>On September 18th, the Danish Presidency of the Council of the European Union will host a  Conference on Copyright and Artificial Intelligence in Copenhagen. An…</p>
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September 3, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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☀️ August summer reading picks: AI, copyright, deepfakes & media in flux. 5 standout pieces show how law, policy & audience shifts collide to reshape creativity & information — A landscape in motion.
🔗 www.linkedin.com/pulse/summer...
August 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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🚨 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.
🔗 www.agcom.it/provvediment...
#OpenInternet #AGCOM #NetNeutrality #TechPolicy
August 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM