cultural rights

The current AI innovation paradigm is driven by large-scale extraction and (mis)appropriation of creative and cultural resources into proprietary AI systems. As AI systems increasingly mediate cultural production and information access, questions of who controls these knowledge infrastructures have become increasingly urgent. These developments…

Current debates in the AI context turn to prevailing Intellectual Property (IP) frameworks and their applicability to the AI moment. Yet, this only intensifies the crisis of the knowledge commons. As experts have noted, on the one hand, copyright frameworks and their ‘fair use’ exemptions may not be fit-for-purpose to deal with questions of…

IT for Change and the Center for Global Digital Justice made a joint submission in response to the OHCHR call for input to inform the thematic study of the Expert Mechanism on Right to Development  on "Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Rights and RIght to Development".

In our submission, we highlighted the following risks posed by the…

Anita Gurumurthy was part of the panel on “Exploring the relationship between cultural rights and cultural diversity” at the February 2010 Seminar organised by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, in partnership with the International Organization of La Francophonie and UNESCO. She made a presentation…