Earlier this month the Engelberg Center and Creative Commons released a report on GLAM institutions who were early to adopt open access policies. This post originally ran on the Creative Commons site. The paper hosted here is the same paper as hosted there. The only difference is that I simplified the file name from the original “Final-Pioneers-of-Open-Three-Case-Studies.pdf-correctedByPAVE.pdf” because, well.

Last week a new Github Copilot investigation website created by Matthew Butterick brought the conversation about GitHub’s Copilot project back to the front of mind for many people, myself included. Copilot, a tool trained on public code that is designed to auto-suggest code to programmers, has been greeted by excitement, curiosity, skepticism, and concern since it was announced.

Last week the 3D printing platform Printables removed an unknown number of models from their platform. This action was apparently in response to a letter Printables received from Honda claiming that user models infringed on various rights. Based on the discussion of the action in the Printables forum, it appears that at least some of Honda’s claims may have been related to the use of Honda’s trademarks in either model geometry or model descriptions.

NFTs are hot. OpenGLAM is hot. People have THOUGHTS and OPINIONS when NFTs and OpenGLAM get near each other.