Pluralistic: 2023's public domain is a banger (20 Dec 2022)


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Pluralistic: 31 Jan 2022


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A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator

Copyleft trolls, robosigning, and Pixsy.

A hand on a multibutton mouse, the body behind it is blurred and out-of-focus; a larger “DANGER” label in red, white and black, has been superimposed over it. Nenad Stojkovic (modified) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hand_on_the_computer_mouse_-_50202556601.jpg CC BY 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en

Here’s a supreme irony: the Creative Commons licenses were invented to enable a culture of legally safe sharing, spurred by the legal terror campaign waged by the entertainment industry, led by a literal criminal predator who is now in prison for sex crimes.

But because of a small oversight in old versions of the licenses created 12 years ago, a new generation of legal predator has emerged to wage a new campaign of legal terror.

To make matters worse, this new kind of predator specifically targets people who operate in good faith, only using materials that they explicitly have been given permission to use.

What a mess.

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