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Cory Doctorow

40 years ago, giant entertainment companies embarked on a slow-moving act of arson. The fuel for this arson was (making copyrights last longer), including *retrospective* copyright term extensions that took works out of the and put them back into copyright for decades. Vast swathes of culture became off-limits, pseudo-property with absentee landlords, with much of it crumbling into dust.

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pluralistic.netPluralistic: 2023’s public domain is a banger (20 Dec 2022) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow