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Intellectual property

Patents, copyright, and licences: who owns an invention or a text, from the web given to the public domain to books scraped for training data.

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2026
Oct 24
reviewThe Web Was the Training Set
Tim Berners-Lee's memoir is the story of a British engineer at a Franco-Swiss lab giving a protocol away. Read in 2026, it is also the origin story of AI's data supply.
History of technology Hypertext Training data Data sovereignty Research labs Intellectual property Europe
16 min
Jun 30
The Bottleneck Is Data, and Europe Is Sitting on It
Frontier AI is running short on public text, not compute. Europe's edge is the high-quality data it never put online. Capturing it needs coordination.
Training data Open data Europe Intellectual property Provenance Languages and translation Technology races
34 min
May 01
Patents Per Capita Is a Vanity Metric
Switzerland tops the Global Innovation Index for the fifteenth year running. As an engineer, that should make you suspicious of the metric, not proud of the country.
Metrics Policy Sovereignty Economics Switzerland Intellectual property
23 min

2026