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New Creative Commons initiative for Cultural Heritage
Creative Commons just launched the new TAROCH initiative, which is closely aligned with our goals. Go read the founding declaration: https://creativecommons.org/2024/11/01/creative-commons-launches-taroch-coalition-for-open-access-to-cultural-heritage/
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Unsurprising legal case on commercial use of cultural heritage
This case https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2024/10/bologna-court-of-appeal-confirms-that.html is consistent with the Italian legislation. We hold that no image right should hold in perpetuity, and we really don’t understand which principle the Italian legislation is upholding. The simplest interpretation is that they think that they will create profits for cultural heritage institutions, which certainly could use funding. It doesn’t seem…
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Link post: Digital Dark Age
Just sharing this MIT Technology Review article on digital archives, a cause that’s close to our hearts: https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/08/19/1096284/data-archives-archeologists-tiktok-future-wayback-machine/?src=longreads It is always a good occasion to mention: donate to the Internet Archive, it is such an important resource, and it’s constantly under attack. Donating to them was the first thing I did when I got my…
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The Open Access saga goes on
Read the latest developments on the rules regarding Open Access and cultural heritage in the Italian legislative system: https://www.wikimedia.it/news/il-cammino-verso-lopen-access-in-italia/ Our own position is that eventually openness will win out, simply because the state is trying to charge for something that people are not willing to pay for, and the state has very little enforcement power…
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XR News for 2024-04-23
People expected big changes after the release of the Apple Vision Pro, and some are visibly disappointed. Apple tends to have a big effect on the mainstream, lots of people seem to think that they invented the smartphone, when the iPhone came out I was using my third smartphone. XR technology has been commercially available…
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Corrections to the cultural heritage images licensing regime
Last year a mandatory fee regime was introduced for images of publicly-owned cultural heritage artifacts. This is morally wrong, but it is also impractical. A new regulation came out in March modifying the rules and introducing exemptions. Wikimedia Italia wrote about it on their Arkivia blog. Academic works and news are now exempted from the…
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AI News: Music generation, Energy consumption, learn the basics
Music generation There are several use-cases for algorithmically generating music, and indeed there is a long history of both hardware and software in this field. Back in the 80s there was even a significant professional backlash against MIDI and drum machines. For example, it would be quite handy to generate anechoic sounds for acoustics listening…
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BCC Innovation Festival news coverage
We’re working on the immersive component of the BCC Innovation Festival: a startup event that we won back in 2022. There are still around two weeks to participate, and we’re aggregating a little bit of media coverage. Mostly it’s because we like seeing our own work (the 3D model of the low-poly Rodin statue) featured…
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AI Linkpost
Short collection of links about AI, and especially local AI
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Exhibit goals: reversos
I’ve learned about this amazing exhibit about reversos at the Prado: https://hyperallergic.com/869083/prado-show-reveals-the-hidden-artworks-on-the-backs-of-masterpieces/ It is truly exhibit design at its best, but it gave me the idea of digitizing not only the back of paintings, but the very structure. I’d like to build an exhibit in which we show how the painting is made, how it…