As artificial intelligence reshapes how information is created, accessed, and consumed, long-standing commitments to open knowledge are being tested in new and urgent ways. Publishers, libraries, and educators—many of whom have championed openness for decades—are now grappling with a difficult question: open for whom? REGISTER NOW!
Libraries increasingly face restrictive digital licensing terms that can make eBooks far more expensive than print, expire after a set number of checkouts or months, and limit libraries’ ability to preserve, share, or provide equitable access to digital books. The result is a system in which libraries can spend more and more money simply to […]
Join us on Thursday, October 15th at 7pm as we bring Neal Stephenson back to San Francisco for D: Heavy Water at The Internet Archive. Tickets are required for this event and can be purchased here. About the book From Neal Stephenson, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Polostan and Cryptonomicon, comes the second installment in his monumental Bomb […]
When the culture we share becomes ours to remix, what new stories can we tell? Cartoonist Alec Robbins and author-librarian Liz Gotauco join copyright expert Meredith Rose to explore the weird, wonderful possibilities of the public domain. REGISTER NOW!
