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In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era,
many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form
– and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them.
Instead, we are stuck renting them,
subject to all kinds of terms and conditions.
And because the content is digital,
reselling it,
lending it,
even preserving it for your own use
inevitably requires copying. 
Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media,
US copyright l…

Rent-Only Copyright Culture Makes Us All Worse Off
In the Netflix/Spotify/Amazon era, many of us access copyrighted works purely in digital form – and that means we rarely have the chance to buy them. Instead, we are stuck renting them, subject to all kinds of terms and conditions. And because the content is digital, reselling it, lending it, even preserving it for your own use inevitably requires copying. Unfortunately, when it comes to copying digital media, US copyright law has pretty much lost the plot.

"The very first question to be considered is the applicability of the Copyright Law to the Moon. "
Thinking ahead (in 1952) about interplanetary copyrights :). if aliens have "Two Heads, Two Authors?"
really fun, worth reading.
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When you ask someone to respect your GPL free/open source license, sometimes they act offended and say you are threatening them with state violence. The thinking seems to be that copyright law comes down to threats to put people in prison. I've only seen this from privileged white men in tech. Where does this come from? It's it a right wing libertarian ideology? (genuine question, I'd like to know!)
Really, the GPL (and AGPL) is all about undermining copyright law, by creat…

Books, movies, music, and works of art published in 1930, including William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying, and sound recordings from 1925 enter the US public domain (Duke University School of Law)
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026/

Public Domain Day 2026 | Duke University School of Law
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.[2] On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925.

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Shapiro Lecture, Catholic Theological Union: Rewilding the Tree of Life - Jewish Law and Theology in the Time of Climate Change.
https://ift.tt/F4Ve1RY
ResearchGate: Publishers Take Formal Steps to Force Copyright Compliance A summary of…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Do you want to participate in destroying the environment even faster while ignoring copyright law, or leave your industry of 20 years and try to find something else that may pay half as much?
That's basically the choice all developers are being given today.
I fucking hate it, and I fucking hate all the people who ignore all the externalities and damage and shrug "well it's inevitable."
Yeah, I'm in a bad mood.