#copyright

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/5/chardet/

If this gets anywhere near courts (and if it doesn't, I'm sure something very like it will in due co...

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2026...

Some good stuff entering the public domain this year, including Betty Boop, Georgia on my Mind, The...

http://priceonomics.com/how-mickey-mouse-evades-th...

I knew that Mickey was a huge part of the reason for ongoing copyright extensions. What I didn't kn...

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2016...

This is saddening. Even among the famous works, there's a lot here that it would be a huge public g...

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-05/30/dut...

Well done, the Dutch. Now we can only hope that our mob of cretins will temporarily locate enough...

http://www.ted.com/talks/rob_reid_the_8_billion_ip...

It's not going to come as a galloping shock to anyone here to discover that the numbers quoted by th...

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/01/25/filesha...

Mr Bradshaw, sometimes seen around this parish, did sterling work in predicating exactly this event...

http://www.wonderlandblog.com/wonderland/2011/08/t...

This short of shitty behaviour probably isn't a surprise to anyone any more, particularly not from t...

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110706/00200314...

Mostly linking this because if you haven't seen the photo in question, you really should. But it is...

http://www.shepy.co.uk/blog/2011/05/why-i-have-lef...

If you are a photographer who likes to maintain any kind of control over the licensing of their imag...

http://drawglueglittermake.blogspot.com/2011/01/cl...

Another instance of "large company rips off small artists design". Bet you a fiver this one ends th...

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/0081387

An absolutely superb essay on influence, creativity, and copyright. The absolute best writing I hav...

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/06/latest-leaked...

This makes my blood boil. What kind of shitehawk can think that is is a fair or reasonable way to d...

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/02/musicblogocid...

The IFPI have sent a bunch of copyright infringement notices, and Google have killed a bunch of musi...

http://www.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/pre19...

A repeat of an old link, since it's been updated with year's list of depressing works that are earni...