Unless otherwise specified the contents of my website are licensed under a Creative Commons Canada license that forbids commercial use. Why do I even care? Two efforts by commercial groups (frankly rent-seeking in both cases) have led me to at least make a moral stand against exploitation of the commons.

My initial impetus was Canadian copyright collectives pushing for the right to charge Universities for the web pages accessed by their students. I’m not making this up. See Section E of the Interim Report On Copyright Reform.

More recently builders of large language models have scraping the entire web to train their models, which they then seek to resell.

By placing this notice, I explicitly opt out of any such schemes.

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