This is CATS
TL;DRs, piracy vs. privacy, normative AI, and more stuff to scratch.
What's that? It's... CATS!
Here's your very first free issue of all the library news fit to scratch. If you subscribe, you'll get at least seven links from the present and past of libraries, tech, and copyright about twice a month, with commentary! (The past, you say? I thought you were futurists! But a good librarian knows you can't understand the future without addressing the past, so we have some beloved dusty musty links for you too.)
Elle Griffin followed the big publishing trial so you don’t have to. (TL;DR: Writing a book: not a good way to make money. Publishing books: somehow still profitable.) There have, of course, been rebuttals and hot take responses to Elle. But the rent is still too damn high!
“[C]ontent providers do not have all the same ethical commitments that libraries do” Or: We told you Overdrive might be selling your data....
When censorship meets technology meets racism meets surveillance. Previously in edtech surveillance.
Copying stuff is a serious crime says country singer worth $430 million. EU Court says that privacy violations not a crime because... copyright.
(Speaking of crime, here's another gem from the archives.)
“Generative AI should be called Normative AI.” Books could maybe make it better.
When philosophers discover economics.
U.S. copyright law has some problems. Also it does not account for Indigenous knowledge.
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