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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
We sued for peace in the Copyright Wars, and millions of us turned the battlefield into a garden.

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#CreativeCommons #CopyrightWars #Copyfight Those of us who were weary of grinding trench warfare of the
The #commafucking demonology of #CopyleftTrolls

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#CureProvision #pilkunnussija #SerpentsInTheGarden They have come to the garden that we all built with our good

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