February 25, 2026
Designed for Atoms, Broken for Bits: How Copyright Law is Locking Europe Out of Its Own Knowledge
Imagine inheriting a magnificent library. Shelves floor to ceiling. Rare manuscripts, out-of-print novels, decades of scientific journals. You are entrusted with it not as an owner, but as a custodian: the person whose job is to make sure it is still there for the next generation. Now imagine that, one by one, someone begins replacing those books with laminated cards. Each card says the same thing: "The content of this book is available. Please...
