Kat Walsh

lawyer for free knowledge (GC @creativecommons); bassoon/viola/voice; heavy lifts, sincere compliments, bad jokes

📷s CC BY 4.0

mastodon: [email protected]

[Sesame Street @sesamestreet]

The letter X will be holding a press conference later today. #TwitterX

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

We are still running our monthly office hours! Next one begins in about an hour; see the quoted post for info on dropping in!

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

Did you know CC has monthly office hours with the legal team? Come and ask us anything (or just chat): https://t.co/iJ8JUO6rQ3

Next one starts in about 30 minutes!

[Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity @CLTCBerkeley]

TODAY! Join @danish_c, @Carlos_MFerr, @Madhusrikumar, and @mindspillage for a panel dicussion on responsible #AI licensing (#RAIL)!

Last chance to register below: https://t.co/g7qiQtG4uv

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

@Dr_CSWright FOSS licenses != public domain releases. Almost all FOSS licenses have restrictions such as attribution reqs; given those are followed, MIT specifically grants recipients the right to "use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the work."

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

@Dr_CSWright LOL, I see that he blocked me for this, probably because he did not have a good reply without admitting being wrong. Anyway, what I was going to say to his (still incorrect) reply tweet:

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

@Dr_CSWright @Frienr @jimmiebitcoin This is not the definition of Open Source that the rest of the open source community uses (https://t.co/25dGJr1VHa) (code you can't modify is usually "Shared Source"), but even if you insist on your own usage here, the MIT license is pretty clear about allowing modification.

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

In 15 minutes!

[Fight for the Future @fightfortheftr]

You can still register to attend our generative AI x human rights salon coming up in one hour with @amnestyusa @kayvan2sfo @makersplace @sashastiles @wondermundo @mindspillage @creativecommons @jrdsctt

Bring a friend and some questions
https://t.co/o27BFpRDbe

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

@ericladler I really wanted these to be good but they were not.

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

Still time to catch today's show in Berkeley!

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

Last-minute concert announcement! The choir I sing in, Sacred & Profane, is presenting choral music from the Jewish tradition, tonight at 8 in SF and tomorrow at 4 in Berkeley: https://t.co/X3VVhD5v1E

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

@michael_nielsen I also appreciate A Manual of Style for Contract Drafting by @AdamsDrafting, which similarly lives on my desk and where every section analyzes something I never really thought about before despite having a reasonable amount of experience with contracts.

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

@michael_nielsen Behind Bars by Elaine Gould is such a useful book on music notation that it has residence on my desk. (It's not great as a reading all the way through book, but it is excellent as reference.)

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

Last-minute concert announcement! The choir I sing in, Sacred & Profane, is presenting choral music from the Jewish tradition, tonight at 8 in SF and tomorrow at 4 in Berkeley: https://t.co/X3VVhD5v1E

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

@carolinesinders @e_salvaggio And a policy questions we're wrangling with is whether copyright is the correct way to address the harms at all--it's a limited tool for limited purposes; are there better policy interventions to make? So that's where we are right now.

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

@carolinesinders @e_salvaggio But it means that a license that was meaningful to cover AI would depend on those uses not being covered by limitations and exceptions--which I think it definitely is in some cases, and is an unsettled question in others. (...)

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

@thomasgpadilla That said, I am not sure what you mean by "linking" here--could you clarify?

[Kat Walsh @mindspillage]

@thomasgpadilla Jumping in--I'm not 100% sure what you mean here, but CC's approach has generally been not to pursue these ends through *copyright* licensing specifically, that these types of restrictions don't work well in general purpose licenses & their aims pursued through other means.

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

It’s time to stand up for libraries! ✊The Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit will be heard in court on Monday. Will libraries be able to continue owning, lending and preserving books? Show your support here: https://t.co/1g2FV6Sg36 @fightfortheftr