It reminds me of work on the commons and biopolitics / pharmaceuticals from the early 2000s. Anthropologists Cori Hayden and Kimberly Christen showed separately two days ago the way "openness" can be exploited by well equipped companies and governments. Hayden wrote about pharmaceutical companies exploiting biocommons in drug development in violation of indegenous rights and protocols. Christen wrote about Aboriginal people in Australia preventing their photos from being accessed outside of ethical protocols in museums, a violation of openness but an ethical choice. I'm still an open access fan for publishing my own scholarly work *for people* but I do not believe Anthropic should train their AIs without asking. In India, Anil Gupta developed a sharing license / patent for openness in farming where non-profit and small businesses could share intellectual property but large corporations have to pay the patent owners. This is not an unsolved problem. On Fri, Feb 6, 2026 at 11:44 PM Caroline James-Garrod via Air-L < air-l@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:
Thanks Tai. Very important to know.
Best wishes to you,
Caroline
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________________________________ From: Air-L <air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Tai Neilson via Air-L <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Thursday, February 5, 2026 7:38:18 PM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Subject: [Air-L] News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?
Dear AoIR community, Apologies for cross‑posting, but I wanted to share a recent article of mine in The Conversation: News sites are locking out the Internet Archive to stop AI crawling. Is the ‘open web’ closing?< https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://theconversation.com/news-sites-are-locki...
It addresses the further enclosure of the internet, commodification of publishers' archives as AI training data, and the resulting challenges for nonprofits and internet research. I hope you find it useful. Cheers, Tai
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