Brewster Kahle
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· Sep 6
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Enjoying the Public Libraries of Copenhagen with @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @brewster.kahle.org getting ready for today’s lecture at the Danish Royal Library. Copenhagen sure is a beautiful city, thank you for your warm welcome!
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James R Jacobs
@freegovinfo.bsky.social
· Jul 24
SF-Based Internet Archive Is Now a Federal Depository Library. What Does That Mean? | KQED
The Internet Archive, thanks to its designation by California Sen. Alex Padilla, joins a network of over 1,100 libraries that make government documents accessible to the public.
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Internet Archive
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· Jul 24
CNI 2025 - Brewster Kahle - Libraries at Risk:Borrowed Infrastructure and and Institutional Resilience
This is "CNI 2025 - Brewster Kahle - Libraries at Risk:Borrowed Infrastructure and and Institutional Resilience" by EDUCAUSE on Vimeo, the home for high…
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Brewster Kahle
@brewster.kahle.org
· Jul 22
And, uh, some personal news: This is also my last column for The Post. I was offered and accepted a buyout.
To answer one possible next question, I'm not sure what's next save taking some time off. If you want, you can enter your email at pbump.net and I'll let you know when I figure it out!
To answer one possible next question, I'm not sure what's next save taking some time off. If you want, you can enter your email at pbump.net and I'll let you know when I figure it out!
For my column today, I wrote about how Trump leveraged America's collapsing trust in institutions — and how his second term has accelerated that collapse. Gift link: wapo.st/3IzN4QA
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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· Jul 21
California A.B. 412 Stalls Out—A Win for Innovation and Fair Use
A.B. 412, the flawed California bill that threatened small developers in the name of AI “transparency,” has been delayed and turned into a two-year bill. That means it won’t move forward in 2025—a sig...
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![Can we talk about some of the wider challenges to creativity? We’re living in a world where AI is scraping writers’ creations and the creations of other artists. Do you share the concerns of creators that safeguards are either insufficient or not present?
I absolutely understand that. There’s a current debate in Parliament around legislation on exactly that. 9 We have a proud tradition of intellectual property laws. Alongside that, this explosive technological development age means that we have an extraordinary opportunity of computational power to analyze, to understand, to discover. What I do think is these two should not be set up in opposition.
footnote: 9 Elton John and Dua Lipa are among those urging the UK government to rethink plans to allow tech companies to use copyrighted material to train their AI models.
But they are in opposition, aren’t they? I looked online and discovered that both of my books have been scraped by AI. I didn’t agree to that.
Every country in the world is grappling with this; no country has yet fully cracked managing this boundary. But certainly as groups of libraries, we can both value creative content and put in best-practice ways of how you can get the best of AI in a bounded, ethical way.
Let me give you an example around our historic collections. We have 170 million items in 200 languages — a huge imprint of the world’s authentically created, human-created content. We’ve done a project through all our texts in older Javanese languages to use [the] mass computational power of AI to do machine discovery of what those texts say, and machine-supported curation of how to flag and catalog that. But that’s very different from AI scraping of your books, which as an author I would be really distressed about.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6zcjb6gz4dg3mvjlxhzdlbaa/bafkreic5iuraiopexowmqozk5gd73simtrx23iyig52f5yx7x42nf7mzk4@jpeg)
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Internet Archive
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· Jun 29
Brewster Kahle
@brewster.kahle.org
· Jun 23
What Happens if the AI Copyright Class Actions Settle?
As the high‑profile copyright lawsuits against AI companies proceed, the courtroom drama captures headlines. But I’ve long thought that settlement may be the real outcome to watch. We may already b…
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Brewster Kahle
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· Jun 20
