By Any Other Nerd

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Here is another exploration of a different set of questions about AI and copyright that I recently wrote and had published on the London School of Economics and Political Science Impact Blog (LSE Impact for short). It continues the conversation that I have had here in some previous posts including this one on academic fracking and the question of whether copyright has been violated , as well as connected to my own research and previous work on the commons .  LSE Impact reached out to me to see if I would write this and funny enough, I was already several paragraphs in when I got the email because, surprise, I had some thoughts.  I like how this piece turned out because it captures a tension that I don't hear in all of this and that is the reasonable return of copyrighted work back to the commons; something that is impossible to happen for any work that arrives in our lifetime, which just seems disappointing.  I keep thinking about how...

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes Last month, a work that I was collaborating on with two amazing colleagues and friends (Deborah Kronenberg and JT Torres) got published.  It was a piece for Inside Higher Ed called, Growing Orchids Among Dandelions and I appreciate the sentiment we put forward in it.   I know that we didn't necessarily solve anything but I do find metaphors and analogies help me put things into perspective. What I enjoyed about this was not just it was a collaborative effort with two people whom I deeply appreciate as human beings but are also have such rich insights and provocations to my own thinking that it pushes me to see things differently.   We wrote this piece last fall as we were all navigating new and different work contexts and realized there was something to be said about the overlapping experience we were encountering and had experienced over our collective years in higher education.   You can read the excerpt below or th...