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

doctorow.medium.com/commafuckers-v… William Blake - The Temptation and Fall of Eve (Illustra
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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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of @CreativeCommons images: @Flickr has declared zero tolerance for #CopyleftTrolls, predators who exploit a bug in out-of-date versions of the CC licenses in order to threaten good-faith users of CC images who make minor errors in their image credits. 1/
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pluralistic.net/2023/04/01/pix… 2/
First things first: Flickr's new community guidelines prohibit copyleft trolling. 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.

doctorow.medium.com/a-bug-in-early… 1/ A hand on a multibutton mouse, the body behind it is blurred
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pluralistic.net/2022/01/31/hee… 2/
What's a #copyleft troll, you ask? 3/
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