June 22, 2010

Terrible court decision on copyright

Court Says It's Okay To Remove Content From The Public Domain And Put It Back Under Copyright. It's in a series of appeals, so we might not be doomed yet, but if Congress and the courts ignore the GAO and the First Amendment -- and non-centralized value, for that matter -- in favor of RIAA, the MPAA, increased control, and profits for a few, then the ratchet will keep strangling the public domain.

So wrote clew in Meta.
And thus wrote others:
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