Copyright and the Ethics of Access in the Digital Humanities

When scholars publish online and artists load their work onto copyright-free platforms, who pays the rent?

This throwback-Thursday-on-a-Tuesday article was first written for my Bachelor of Philosophy course at Macquarie University. The issues raised have only grown in importance in the subsequent rise of AI large language models, most egregiously with Meta’s use of pirated works on the LibGen platform.

Image by Marvin Meyer at Unsplash.

The internet has vastly…