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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
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#RIAA #NapsterWars
Giving away your copyrights is harder than cancelling an internet subscription.
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#CreativeCommons #Copyfight #Copyleft
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#CreativeCommons #Copyfight #Copyleft
It's a big day for users of @CreativeCommons images: @Flickr has declared zero tolerance for #CopyleftTrolls, predators who exploit a bug in out-of-date versions of the CC licenses in order to threaten good-faith users of CC images who make minor errors in their image credits. 1/
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:
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First things first: Flickr's new community guidelines prohibit copyleft trolling. 3/
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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If you'd like an unrolled 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:
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What's a #copyleft troll, you ask? 3/
