An article by Andy Baio examining how AI companies use datasets and models from academic and nonprofit research groups. It describes Meta's Make-A-Video using Shutterstock clips and YouTube videos collected by Microsoft, and notes nonprofit datasets used for Stable Diffusion and other models. It argues this outsourcing shifts accountability and legal liability away from corporations.
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Austrian digital library of historical laws and legal texts.
ARChive is a digital repository instance powered by the InvenioRDM platform. It organizes content into featured communities, lists recent public uploads, and provides user login access to a personal dashboard. The site includes public legal resources covering terms of use, privacy policy, and imprint details.
Climate Files is an archival database of news, information and documents compiled from various sources after more than 25 years of research and data collection. It is a project of the Center for Climate Integrity designed for journalists, legal researchers and public interest advocates, and includes collections such as Imperial Oil archival documents and Exxon internal documents.
European Alternatives is a directory that helps users find European alternatives for digital services and products, such as cloud services and SaaS products. It lists alternatives across categories including web analytics, cloud computing platforms, content delivery networks, email providers, VPS hosters and search engines. It explains benefits such as supporting local businesses, data protection, VAT billing and similar legal requirements within the EU.
Exodus is a privacy audit platform for Android applications. It analyzes applications to list embedded trackers, which it describes as software intended to collect data about a user or their usages. Users can search for a report by application name, handle or Google Play URL, and reports show tracker and permission counts. The site states that it does not decompile applications and that its analysis method is legal.
Export Import Data Bank (TRADESTAT) is a Department of Commerce portal for India's commodity-wise export and import data, organized by HS code, chapter, country, and region. It states that data are available from 2017-2018 to 2025-2026. Data come from DGCI&S, Kolkata, and are described as for general reference without legal sanctity.
FAIRequest is a transfer unit for data and biomaterials operated by the Institute for Community Medicine at Universitätsmedizin Greifswald, part of Universität Greifswald. The service provides functionality for submitting requests, accessing studies, data dictionaries, downloadable materials, publications, and contact information, alongside legal notices and privacy policies.
Browse public datasets, metadata and downloadable records in an open catalog.
immuneACCESS is a platform operated by Adaptive Biotechnologies Corporation. It provides access to research-use-only content, with user sign-in and sign-up functionality, downloadable resources, help documentation, and associated legal notices for users.
IMPACT is a repository of cybersecurity research datasets and analytics tools, described as freely available and legally collected. It coordinates data and information sharing between academia, industry and government. Access requires a user account, and restricted data requires a Memoranda of Agreement signed with the IMPACT Coordinating Center.
Greek open-access legal information platform.
Public Health Ontario's Open Data page describes the agency's data inventory, which lists all PHO datasets and identifies each as open, in the process of being opened, or exempt from release. Some data is withheld for privacy, security, legal, confidentiality or commercial reasons. The page refers readers to the Ontario open data catalogue for Government of Ontario datasets.
RADAR4Culture is a research data repository that provides access to the latest data publications. Users can filter publications by creators, publishers, production year, language, subject areas, resource type, license, rights holders, community, keywords, and ontologies. The site also includes links to its privacy policy, terms and conditions, legal notices, and accessibility declaration.
Polish public registry for searching listed sex offenders and related legal records.
A free, searchable online database of Supreme Court oral argument transcripts. It allows searching the text of individual statements within oral arguments since the 1950s. The site is labeled as a beta.
The Supreme Court Database is a dataset about U.S. Supreme Court cases, containing over two hundred pieces of information per case, including parties, legal provisions and Justice votes. It covers the 1946 to 2025 terms in the Modern Database and 1791 to 1945 in the Legacy Database, with analysis tools and codebooks for researchers, students, journalists and citizens.
Virtual specialist library for International and Interdisciplinary Legal Research.
USTP Phaidra is a digital asset repository operated by the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten. It provides permanent secure storage for digital resources, supports open access to scholarly publications, offers publication support services, funding for open access self-archiving, and legal support for copyright and licensing related to research outputs.
Wonderlink is a link-in-bio service for creating a single mobile page holding links to social profiles, shops, blogs and other channels. It offers a permanently free version and an optional Pro version with more design, statistics and function options. Legal pages such as imprint and data protection can be managed centrally.