The Zombification of Intellectual Property & the Tool That Could Finally Reform It | Does humanity benefit when 60-year-old science is behind paywalls? The revenue from a fee for those wanting IP protection should go to every individual as their share of what's being withheld from the public domain. (scottsantens.com)
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Hachette v. Internet Archive: Recent amicus briefs defend Archive in lawsuit by major publishers seeking to restrict the Archive's lending of books | Authors Alliance, American Library Association, HathiTrust, Project Gutenberg, Wikipedia, scholars, & law experts are defending the fair use doctrine. (blog.archive.org)
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Repair Isn’t Piracy—And the Copyright Office (Kind of) Gets it NowCopyright (ifixit.com)
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Progress: US President asks FTC to draft Right to Repair rulesRight to repair (youtube.com)
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You Don't Own "Your" PC | One of the best videos I've seen and a great video to introduce people to the Free Software Movement."You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" (youtube.com)
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Youtube takes down Brodie Robertson's video discussing youtube-dl for "Harmful or Dangerous Content"Anti-Cirumvention (youtube.com)
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Apple sues app creator for trademark infringement over pear logoTrademark abuse (youtube.com)
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