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Michael Veale (mikarv@someone.elses.computer)'s status on Friday, 23-Dec-2022 23:17:02 JST Michael Veale

Standards organisations, which make and own copyright to proprietary texts which will be necessary to understand and enforce laws such as the EU's AI Act, which mandate them and refer to them directly, are making it even harder to access standards by instituting pretty nasty Adobe #DRM. Many of these document are considered part of EU law for the purposes of preliminary references. See this from the BSI now. #standards #AIAct

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