Director of Policy at Open Future, President of the COMMUNIA association for the Public Domain. Advocate for more open, just & inclusive digital policies in 🇪🇺 & beyond. Collector of collateral knowledge, © nerd, cyclist.https://bsky.app/profile/paul.eurosky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/paul.eurosky.social/post/3mirgsce6hk2eso this weekend’s news reminds me of the fact that (a) they were selling #usaf #f15e branded chocolate bars in iran on 2007 and that (b) i was somewhat competent at predicting the future back then flic.kr/p/49cKrK https://flic.kr/p/49cKrK05 Apr 2026 19:02 +0000at://did:plc:5ndrotsuytyvgs7cxym6hb4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mirgsce6hk2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/paul.eurosky.social/post/3mfjmb5dz5c2bwell that was very uneventful @paulk.bsky.social is now @paul.eurosky.social. #eurosky (I guess uneventful is good in this context, so 👏 @eurosky.social)23 Feb 2026 12:03 +0000at://did:plc:5ndrotsuytyvgs7cxym6hb4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfjmb5dz5c2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/paul.eurosky.social/post/3mdpoyw4js24jPublishers blocking @archive.org crawlers over AI concerns. Reporting from @niemanlab.org shows how scarcity-based responses to AI are eroding open web infrastructure in real time: www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-p… I wrote about why this path leads nowhere good: www.techpolicy.press/abundance-vs-s… https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/01/news-publishers-limit-internet-archive-access-due-to-ai-scraping-concerns/31 Jan 2026 11:17 +0000at://did:plc:5ndrotsuytyvgs7cxym6hb4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdpoyw4js24jhttps://bsky.app/profile/paul.eurosky.social/post/3mbwtrxcf2k2sin the midst of all the chaos I took the train to Warszawa and arrived right on time: https://blog.voyantes.net/kind-train-gods/08 Jan 2026 20:41 +0000at://did:plc:5ndrotsuytyvgs7cxym6hb4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbwtrxcf2k2shttps://bsky.app/profile/paul.eurosky.social/post/3mbrlpbe7mk2pwhen all of NL is in a #winter meltdown, but you have to get to Warsaw and the train gods like you. Bravo @deutschebahn.com!06 Jan 2026 18:33 +0000at://did:plc:5ndrotsuytyvgs7cxym6hb4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3mbrlpbe7mk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/paul.eurosky.social/post/3m73otfpk2s2hThis new impulse paper proposes a framework to help cultural heritage institutions balance their commitment to open access with the increasing AI-driven demand on their collections and infrastructure. ↘️ [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Dec 2025 14:40 +0000at://did:plc:5ndrotsuytyvgs7cxym6hb4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3m73otfpk2s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/paul.eurosky.social/post/3lu2rtad7tk2iI have been a paid subscriber to @404media.co since pretty much day 1. Easily the best $100 you can spend on the internet. Yesterday I accidentally heard their podcast with ads—I’d probably pay $100 just to avoid those cringe-worthy things alone.16 Jul 2025 06:24 +0000at://did:plc:5ndrotsuytyvgs7cxym6hb4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu2rtad7tk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/paul.eurosky.social/post/3lsjswmibx22eThis destroyed so much more than just that. in the years before the ministry experimented funding for social media initiatives(as in media produced by civil society). this initiative (de digitale pioniersregeling was also abruptly killed. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Jun 2025 19:03 +0000at://did:plc:5ndrotsuytyvgs7cxym6hb4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsjswmibx22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/paul.eurosky.social/post/3lrzkfzcqk227Yesterday we published the first part of a feasibility study for CommonsDB—laying out the design principles for the public registry of Public Domain and openly licensed works that we are currently building. Next step: the first prototype, coming after the summer: https://www.commonsdb.org/blog/feasibility-study-laying-the-groundwork-for-a-rights-registry/20 Jun 2025 07:48 +0000at://did:plc:5ndrotsuytyvgs7cxym6hb4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrzkfzcqk227https://bsky.app/profile/paul.eurosky.social/post/3lrcwlsen422jExcellent piece by @jonworth.eu: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/11/europe-was-promised-a-new-golden-age-of-the-night-train-why-are-we-still-waiting I am taking a night train once or twice a year. When everything works it can be magic (have dinner with friends in Berlin, and breakfast with the family in Amsterdam the next morning) but there is so much unrealized potential!11 Jun 2025 07:55 +0000at://did:plc:5ndrotsuytyvgs7cxym6hb4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrcwlsen422jhttps://bsky.app/profile/paul.eurosky.social/post/3lqa56pjmq22xNew blog post: The recent #CJEU referral is a poor test case for clarifying how the EU #copyright framework applies to AI training. The underlying dispute concerns the use of content with a trained model (RAG), not the training process itself. https://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2025/05/28/do-ai-models-dream-of-dolphins-in-lake-balaton/28 May 2025 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:5ndrotsuytyvgs7cxym6hb4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqa56pjmq22xhttps://bsky.app/profile/paul.eurosky.social/post/3lpqwf4fe7k2y#CPDP2025 panel organized by @ivir-uva.bsky.social on the still unresolved question when a summary of GPAI training data is "sufficiently detailed". Despite the clear case for openness and transparency the European Commission's template for transparency reporting is still missing in action.22 May 2025 10:38 +0000at://did:plc:5ndrotsuytyvgs7cxym6hb4e/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpqwf4fe7k2y