Category: Cuaderno público

  • The novel read before it existed

    The novel read before it existed

    In May 2026, an as-yet unpublished novel by Olga Tokarczuk had already been read, judged, and partially condemned. Not for its pages, which were unavailable and would remain so until the autumn, but for translated fragments of a conversation in which the author discussed the use of artificial intelligence...

  • No longer banned

    No longer banned

    La imagen que tenemos de la censura es antigua: un funcionario que lee, tacha, prohíbe. Un sello de «no autorizado» sobre un guion, una obra retirada de la pared, un libro que no llega a imprenta. El censor es visible, la prohibición explícita y por eso discutible: hay algo que señalar, alguien a quien acusar,…

  • They may be right

    They may be right

    There is a sentence, within a 2024 United States federal court ruling, that encapsulates the chasm which may open between the just and the legal more effectively than any essay. A court, reviewing the claim of a Jewish collector’s heirs regarding a painting which, according to the account accepted for procedural purposes,...

  • Doubt is a choice

    Doubt is a choice

    En octubre de 1940, cinco meses después de la invasión alemana de los Países Bajos, se subastó en Ámsterdam «Mujer con abanico», un cuadro cubista de Jean Metzinger pintado en 1913. Había pertenecido a Emanuel Lewenstein, coleccionista judío que dirigía una fábrica de máquinas de coser. Nadie sabe hoy quién lo puso a la venta…

  • The needle in the haystack: how scale dilutes individual attribution

    The needle in the haystack: how scale dilutes individual attribution

    A painter discovers that an artificial intelligence model was trained on their paintings, without permission or remuneration, and initiates legal action. Should a portion of their claim depend upon linking a generated image to their specific works, they may face an exceptionally arduous task: demonstrating that those works causally influenced what the machine produced...

  • Reserving your rights in a language the machine understands

    Reserving your rights in a language the machine understands

    A German photographer, Robert Kneschke, brought a claim against the organisation LAION regarding the downloading of one of his photographs during the creation of an image-text pair dataset usable for training generative artificial intelligence systems. In December 2025, the Hanseatic Higher Regional Court of Hamburg dismissed his appeal. Among the grounds for the...

  • Málaga Museums: the contract is traceable, but working conditions are not

    Málaga Museums: the contract is traceable, but working conditions are not

    Externalización, mediación y trabajo cultural. De la serie iniciada en «Contra la vida optimizada». La Administración ha publicado cuánto paga por la gestión de visitantes de los museos municipales de Málaga y cuánto previó destinar a sus servicios de mediación y educación. Con la documentación recuperada no puede reconstruirse cuántas personas prestan esos servicios, qué…

  • Who decides culture in Málaga's towns and villages

    Who decides culture in Málaga's towns and villages

    Territorio, decisión y transparencia en la política cultural provincial. De la serie iniciada en «Contra la vida optimizada». Advertencia inicial Este texto se construye solo con información pública accesible: la publicada por la Diputación de Málaga en su web y la localizada en la Base de Datos Nacional de Subvenciones y el Boletín Oficial de…

  • Warhol v. Goldsmith: the same image, two uses

    Warhol v. Goldsmith: the same image, two uses

    In 1984, Andy Warhol used a photographic portrait of Prince, taken by Lynn Goldsmith, to create the Prince series. Thirty-two years later, following the musician's death, the foundation managing his estate granted Condé Nast a licence to use one of those works, Orange Prince, on the cover of a…

  • Being on the internet is not being seen: ‘Banana and Orange’ and ‘Comedian’

    Being on the internet is not being seen: ‘Banana and Orange’ and ‘Comedian’

    En 2001 Joe Morford publicó «Banana and Orange»: dos paneles verdes, una naranja arriba, un plátano abajo, sujetos con cinta adhesiva. En 2019, Maurizio Cattelan presentó «Comedian»: un plátano pegado a la pared con una tira de cinta. En enero de 2021, Morford demandó a Cattelan por infracción de derechos de autor ante un tribunal…

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