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Open access does not necessarily deliver equal benefits; community control changes the starting assumption of licensing.

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Becky FaithSenior Research Fellow; Development Lecturer · FCDO; Institute of Development StudiesSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
Grace Lyn HigdonCo-Founder (event programme) · BenevAILinkedIn ↗

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Becky FaithSenior Research Fellow; Development Lecturer · FCDO; Institute of Development StudiesSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
Grace Lyn HigdonCo-Founder (event programme) · BenevAILinkedIn ↗

Open access does not necessarily deliver equal benefits; community control changes the starting assumption of licensing.

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Attributed contributors: Becky Faith; Grace Lyn Higdon. “Open access does not necessarily deliver equal benefits; community control changes the starting assumption of licensing..” Responsible AI: Ethics, Governance and Practice. ECOSYSTEM Summit, Barcelona, 16 September 2026. Session time 22:24–23:41. https://cs-ecosystem.commonshare.workers.dev/evidence/E-80e43547152f

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Open access does not necessarily deliver equal benefits; community control changes the starting assumption of licensing.

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Becky FaithSenior Research Fellow; Development Lecturer · FCDO; Institute of Development StudiesSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
Grace Lyn HigdonCo-Founder (event programme) · BenevAILinkedIn ↗

Proposed mechanism: Community-defined control connects sharing to priorities.

Conditions: Rights must be effective in practice.

Limit: Moderator interprets an absent researcher’s work.

data rightsbenefit distributiondecision rights

Where it connects.

Data rights and lower transaction costs do not establish that producers will receive payment.

A live farmer-payment challenge exposes the gap between a rights-bearing architecture and a funded exchange. Bargaining, buyer demand and redistribution of savings remain proposed mechanisms.

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