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Inside: When you hear "fintech," think "unlicensed bank"; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/01/usu…

#Pluralistic

1/ A stately, columnated bank ...
Tomorrow (May 2) at 7PM, I'll be at the Cedar Hills Crossing (#PDX) @Powells with @waxy:

powells.com/book/red-team-…

2/ Image
When you hear "fintech," think "unlicensed bank": "...with a computer."



3/  Image: Andre Carrotflower ...
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(1/4) I asked ChatGPT on 2023-03-23 to write a story about an open-source machine that can travel through space, time, parallel worlds, and the multiverse.
(2/4) I also asked it to dedicate its work to the Public Domain through Creative Commons Public Dedication (CC0 / CCzero), and it did.

Here is the story dedicated to the Public Domain.

See…
1: write.as/yuki/the-open-…

or
(3/4) or

2: fediverse.blog/~/WhenSnowFall…

… for the story.
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40 years ago, giant entertainment companies embarked on a slow-moving act of arson. The fuel for this arson was #copyright #TermExtension (making copyrights last longer), including *retrospective* copyright term extensions that took works out of the #PublicDomain. 1/ A montage of works that enter the public domain on Jan 1, 20
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2022/12/20/fre… 2/
Term extension put public domain works back into copyright for decades. Vast swathes of culture became off-limits, pseudo-property with absentee landlords, with much of it crumbling into dust. 3/
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🦖#PrimalJam is starting TODAY!🌋

Create for the #Weird #StoneAndSorcery #AdventureGame, #PrimalQuest!

The game has a FREE OPEN LICENSE, and we made available more than 40 curated and treated #PublicDomain #Art for it! Join us and #GetPrimal!

itch.io/jam/primal-jam…
#PrimalQuest is the #Weird #StoneAndSorcery #AdventureGame with modern rules and challenging old-school style play!

Learn more about it below!

@ricardo_peraca submitted #RuleOfOg, a set of optional rules for communication in the #Mythical #StoneAge! Very interesting and I will take a deeper look later today!

tragos-games.itch.io/rule-of-og
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BIG NEWS: On 1/1 for the first time in history, every sound recording published since the invention of records thru 1922 entered the US #publicdomain.
Including this: Fanny Brice's "Second Hand Rose."
🎉TMW: Come to our virtual "Celebration of Sound" 1/20: eventbrite.com/e/celebration-…
2/ What will you find now in the public domain? Experts say some 400,000 recordings like this one: Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag.
You can find 38,500 newly #publicdomain 78s in our collection-- now yours free to reuse & download. archive.org/details/george…
3/ And it's not just big hits! Check out some of the quirkier #publicdomain treasures in our collections, from "Fido is a Hot Dog Now" to myriad books & films.
blog.archive.org/2022/01/01/wel…
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1/🧵 Another week of exciting content on the #WalledCulture blog:
➡️ @glynmoody covered how digital images of #PublicDomain works get captured, why #artist nor #academics should sign away their rights, & why Singapore 🇸🇬 sets an example to follow with its updated Copyright Law 👇
2/🧵
👉 Cultural digitisation for the many, or cultural depredation for the few: time to choose
walledculture.org/cultural-digit…

#Museums #ArtGalleries #PublicDomain #GLAM #CHIs #Wikimedia #Wikipedia #WalledCulture
3/🧵
👉 Why are #TaylorSwift and #academics all in the same boat? And why is she more fortunate?
walledculture.org/why-are-taylor…

#WalledCulture
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all the stories from the OXFORD BOOK OF SCIENCE FICTION that are on the #PUBLICDOMAIN PDF Page:

Second Dawn by Arthur C. Clarke
24 pages from Science Fiction Quarterly, August 1951

narration time would be 1 hour 18 minutes
The Tunnel Under The World by Frederik Pohl

33 pages from GALAXY, January 1955

NARRATION TIME WOULD BE 1 HOUR 17 MINUTES
A Martian Odyssey by Stanley G. Weinbaum

17 pages from Wonder Stories, July 1934

1 hour 5 minutes
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Really excited about the 17 authors who entered the Indian #publicdomain in 2021! Authors from all across India feature in this list, so look out languages of India... you just got richer this year! #linguisticdiversity Image
In India, the criteria for expiration of #copyright is 60 years since the death of the author, and that the work was published before their death. This year, books of authors who passed away in 1960 are coming into the public domain.
And here we go- some #Indianwriters featured in our #publicdomain post at the blog...
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Sir, with ref to your very much needed sensitive response, in ordinariness of #ordinarypeople & with commonsense of
#commonman, may we submit as follows:
1.Instead of experimenting with #3FarmActs for 1-2 yrs, why not keep those in abeyance for 2yrs?
2. Ask #40AssnsofFarmers>>
>> to submit their #ProposedDraft keeping following in view:
a. #Reforms inter-alia shifting from existing agriculture pattern in #Punjab #Haryana etc to...
b."Cost + theory" & feasibility of #MSP for all crops
c. Is uniform #FarmActs possible for all #States
3.Likewise #GOI >>
>>needs to appreciate that instead of "experimenting" for
1-2 yrs which if results in #irreversible & #irrevocable DAMAGES will be creating more
#TrustDeficit, it will be better to keeping #3FarmActs in #Abeyance to hv #LevelPlayingField to make needful decisions cordially!>>
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Un nouveau #bot littéraire est né cette semaine durant notre atelier du mercredi ! Forcément, on meurt d’envie de vous montrer l’intérêt pédagogique d’une telle activité en classe… Vous l’aurez compris, ce #thread #vendredilecture est consacré au @LaFontaineBot !
Les #bot s littéraires fleurissent ces derniers temps sur Twitter : @AliceBot @LaRechercheBot @LoveBot67175596 @synesthobot #LynchBot #Oss117Bot #Baudelairebot … On s’est dit qu'il y avait là une activité intéressante pour travailler les compétences langagières en classe. #MDL
Créer un bot ça suppose des choix, alors on vous explique les nôtres...
#CulturesRemix #Pédagogie #MDL #Fun
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Good news for #openCulture - in January, "We Shall Overcome" became public domain after a federal judge ruled the key verse could not be copyrighted for lack of originality.

hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/song-p…

#missedInRealTime #thread
The lawyers that handled that lawsuit are the same ones who brought "Happy Birthday" into #publicDomain in 2015:

apnews.com/4ef3d7182b7e44…
In 2016, the lawyers filed suit against the same music publisher over "This Land Is Your Land." Let me know if you see an updated status!
mimesislaw.com/ipflow/this-so…
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