...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....

Sounds like a great course

But the US has always been like this: rights for some, and not others. All that changes is the target

Think Japanese internment under FDR

Or the lavender/red scares a few years later

Or Chile, Guatemala, Nicaragua

Or slavery, segregation, etc, etc

Interesting.

I like @caryscraig.bsky.social's take on this: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I have lots of concerns about AI, but I don't think copyright law is the way to address those concerns -- and I think academics should publish fully open access anyway

Thanks to

Co-applicant: @refugeelab.ca Associate Director @petramolnar.com

Collaborators: Jenn McIntyre at the Canada-US Border Rights Clinic and @memomiller.bsky.social at @theborderchronicle.bsky.social

Co-hosts: @osgoodenews.bsky.social & @crsyork.bsky.social at York University