This declaration is so important. We’re beyond just working for open Access publications - open infrastructures need support to be sustainable, and research information must be open.

Great to see so much commitment to this already ❤️

This feels like an odd anti-OA argument in this week’s Times Higher Education. Is selecting texts and sign-posting them to readers really a fundamental change in the function and purpose of a library? I thought that’s what they already do!

The reason that the Conservative government has cut the pay of NHS staff so severely is because they are intentionally destroying our public healthcare system and making way for privatisation.

RT if this concerns you🚨

Is the revision of the Gates foundation open Access policy The Beginning Of The End for open access journals? davidworlock.com/2024/04/gates-…

The research information landscape requires fundamental change. Today, over 40 organisations commit to making openness of research information the norm.

For the full text of the #BarcelonaDeclaration see
barcelona-declaration.org

#OpenScience #OpenResearchInformation

I'm very happy about being awarded the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for the next academic year to work on my project 'The Role of the State in Intellectual Property law in Times of Industrial Policy'.
My gratitude to The British Academy for this honour and time for research

Excellent news that the Getty Museum has released 88K+ images of artworks with CC0 - Creative Commons, making them free to use in any way you like. creativecommons.org/2024/03/13/get…

UKRI exonerates equality advisers accused of ‘extremist views’: Investigation finds no grounds for science secretary’s request to shut down advisory panel.

researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-pol…

Surely this is a resigning matter? Science secretary Michelle Donelan apologises and pays damages to Heriot-Watt University Professor Kate Sang after falsely accusing her of being a Hamas supporter. mirror.co.uk/news/politics/…

Delighted to see my research report for Intellectual Property Office UK published today -

One of the most invidious aspects of this unlawful UK government blacklisting/social media vetting nonsense is that they apologised only to me, the cranky white male with lawyers. They refuse to apologise to the females and people of colour.

This is not news to anyone in the UK tech wonk sphere, but DCMS had a secret surveillance watchlist of critics banned from advising government on policy. I would much rather be on that list - proudly so - than on the vetted and approved arselickers list.
theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

The debate around #AI and #copyright rumbles on…

AI chief at ⁦Stability AI⁩ resigns over the company's view that it is acceptable to use copyrighted work without permission to train its products. bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

A new disclosure reveals details of the Cabinet Office's appalling persistent & extreme FOI delays, even when responding to the ICO. In 17 cases where the ICO gave the Cabinet Office a deadline for responding about an FOI complaint, the CabOff met the deadline just once.

Listening to @markhahnel Figshare Digital Science discuss #StateofOpenData
3/4 of researchers do not receive support in making their data open. DMPs, Copyright are still issues.

The Imperial College London #rightsretention #OpenAccess #OA policy received formal approval yesterday. It will come into effect for outputs accepted from 1 January 2024. Publishers are in the process of being notified.

What does the 3-step test mean for the shaping, interpretation & application of ©️ exceptions? New paper focusing on TDM exceptions - including for AI training purposes - in a variety of jurisdictions (Japan, Singapore, UK, and EU). Feedback welcome! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

👇 Interesting round-up of Easygroup litigations in the article below... Surely a claim against Premier Inn for the slogan ‘rest easy’ is a claim too far? Isn't the 'easy-' trade mark family defined by the positioning of the 'easy-' element always at the start of the mark?🤔

Well, that’s some news. I’ve been very impressed by Nick’s energy and knowledge. He’ll be a very hard act to follow

It is scandalous that, despite decades of warning, funding agencies & universities have allowed the primary output of billions of dollars of public investment to be privatized and made available only to those wealthy enough to pay Elsevier for them.
elsevier.com/about/press-re…