The Weaponisation of Openness? Toward a New Social Contract for Data in the AI Era | by Stefaan G. Verhulst | Oct, 2025 | Medium

"...Unlike the old data commons model of “open by default”, reinvented frameworks are designed to combine accessibility with governance. They provide structured ways to provide access to data — whether public, private, or hybrid — while specifying conditions of use, obligations for benefit-sharing, mechanisms for oversight, and systems for attribution and compensation. They represent a rethinking of openness for an era in which context, consent, and control matter as much as availability...."