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How AI could bring about the mass adoption of open access in mathematics ā and beyond
Published: October 7, 2026 12:00
Numerous posts on Walled Culture have lamented the continuing failure to realise all the benefits from open access. Even when there is a move to open access, it is frequently to gold open access, which requires a payment from institutions when one of theirā¦
How copyright is being abused to censor Albaniaās Flamingo Revolution
https://walledculture.org/how-copyright-is-being-abused-to-censor-albanias-flamingo-revolution/
Published: September 23, 2026 12:00
For the last couple of years, the copyright world has been grappling with the latest generation of AI, as numerous posts on Walled Culture attest. Thatās hardly surprising, since AI is currently delivering the greatest challenge to the foundations ofā¦
US government argues that fair use applies to OpenAIās training of LLMs in key copyright case
Published: September 9, 2026 12:00
Historically, legislation and court decisions have always lagged behind technological change. But the gap between the two is even starker in the world of generative AI. The large language model (LLM) that kicked things off, ChatGPT, was only released inā¦
Cinema as a community experience opens the door for low-cost films funded by fans
Published: July 8, 2026 12:00
Walled Culture the book (digital versions available free) is about the incompatibility of the traditional copyright system with the digital world, and its failure to reward creators fairly. That raises the question of what might replace it, and the bookāsā¦
Why the spread of powerful local AI models makes copyright enforcement even harder
Published: June 24, 2026 12:00
The central theme of Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) is the growing incompatibility between traditional copyright law and the digital, online world. The culmination of that process was the EU Copyright Directive, passed in 2019.ā¦
Spainās Net blocks have a flimsy legal basis, and lack both oversight and accountability
Published: June 10, 2026 12:00
A few weeks ago, Walled Culture wrote about Hadopi, Franceās infamous copyright enforcement mechanism. The so-called āgraduated responseā ā aka āthree strikes and you are outā ā has been around for over 15 years now, has cost French taxpayers a fortune,ā¦
Why Googleās new AI-saturated search page will be a disaster
https://walledculture.org/why-googles-new-ai-saturated-search-page-will-be-a-disaster/
Published: May 27, 2026 12:00
Google didnāt invent full-text search of the Internet ā that honour belongs to early pioneers such as WebCrawler, Lycos and AltaVista. But for the last 25 years or so, Google has been synonymous with online searching, providing the quickest and mostā¦
Hadopi, perhaps the worldās worst copyright law, is moribund but not quite dead (yet)
Published: May 13, 2026 12:00
One of the best demonstrations that an obsession with protecting copyrightās intellectual monopoly drives politicians insane is the French law known as Hadopi, an acronym for āHaute AutoritĆ© pour la diffusion des oeuvres et la protection des droits surā¦
Welcome to the future, where AI agents hunt down alleged online copyright infringement
Published: April 29, 2026 12:00
As readers of this blog have doubtless noticed, the latest hot tech ā and investment ā area involves āagentic AIā, where AI systems are allowed to operative autonomously on allocated tasks. Thereās no doubt there are some exciting possibilities here, asā¦
The worldās leading cancer charity to stop funding open access publishing because of hybrid journals
Published: April 15, 2026 12:00
As numerous posts on this blog have emphasised, the underlying idea of open access (OA) ā allowing anyone to read and share published academic research for free ā is great in principle, but in practice has failed in important ways. Thatās becauseā¦