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#Commafuckers Versus #TheCommons: #CopyleftTrolls Are the Serpents in Our Garden of Ethical Sharing

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How record executives shot themselves in the face

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#RIAA #NapsterWars Record executives didn’t just shoot themselves in the foot
Giving away your copyrights is harder than cancelling an internet subscription.

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#CreativeCommons #Copyfight #Copyleft For a creator who wants their work shared, copyright is like
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When a superdense, concentrated mass forms a black hole, the laws of physics around it change, giving rise to an eldritch zone where the normal rules don't apply. When corporations form a concentrated industry, the laws of economics likewise change. 1/ A NASA rendering entitled 'Neutron Stars Rip Each Other Apar
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Take copyright: when I was a baby writer, there were dozens of comparably sized New York publishers. The writers who mentored me could shop their rights around to lots of houses, which enabled them to subdivide those rights. 3/
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This week on my podcast, I read my @Medium column "A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator," describing my bizarre run-in with a group of #CopyleftTrolls who tried to shake me down for $600.

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What's a #copyleft troll, you ask? 3/
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🧵#LatinXChem En mi experiencia optar por software gratuitos surge de la necesidad de encontrar alternativas al pago de licencia. No cuento con 💵 y tampoco quiero bajar "cracks", ni versiones piratas por miedo a los 🦠s, ademas de que está 🚫por la ley
Bien dicen que "no hay mal que por bien no venga" y es que el encontrarme con una barrera de pago, fue una oportunidad enorme para entrar al mundo del software libre y de código abierto (Free Open Source Software #FOSS)
Durante mi doctorado mi compañero el admirable Dr. Víctor Duarte Alaniz me había platicado varias veces sobre cómo usó el software libre para escribir su tesis de doctorado y realizar sus aclamadas y famosas portadas en revistas científicas con @Blender
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You're conflating all over the place here, Andrew. And if you think Pat's a "recent" privacy convert then you clearly don't know him, or his work.

My own stated* position on digital #ownership relates to #PersonalData, not #CreativeWorks; two things that shouldn't be confused...
*My stated position on the @internetarchive's "Emergency Library": seems to differ from Pat's (which I don't find surprising) but I really don't see how you make such a strong relation between #privacy & #copyleft, unless it's an in-group/out-group thing?
I've known both you and Pat for years, Andrew. I think you'd actually have some fascinating conversations over a pint - you might ask him about GSMA & Ebola DP 'war stories', if you ever do meet - so maybe not so much with the brush-tarring, please? It diminishes us all.
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