Acknowledgements 
Authored by Alek Tarkowski and Paul Keller ( Open Future), Derek Slater and Betsy Masiello 
(Proteus Strategies) in collaboration with Creative Commons. 
We are grateful to participants in the workshops, including Luis Villa, Tidelift and openml.fyi; 
Jonathan Band; Peter Brantley, UC Davis; Aaron Gokaslan, Cornell; Lila Bailey, Internet 
Archive; Jennifer Vinopal, HathiTrust Digital Library; Jennie Rose Halperin, Library Futures/
NYU Engelberg Center, Nicholas P . Garcia, Public Knowledge; Sayeed Choudhury; Erik 
Stallman, UC Berkeley School of Law. The paper represents the views of the authors, 
however, and should not be attributed to the workshop as a whole. All mistakes or errors are 
the authors’. 
  
This report is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 
License.
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