Copyfight "Free is not fair" won't make authors richer, but fixing publishers' contracts will Cory Doctorow
Copyfight New tool helps authors claim their copyrights back from publishers (even "perpetual assignments") Cory Doctorow
rights Original "Yesterday" screenwriter says Richard Curtis took more than a one-sentence idea Rob Beschizza
Business United Nations was hacked in July 2019 and kept it quiet, despite its own staff being at risk Xeni Jardin
happy mutants Documentation Gathering, Sanitization, and Storage: an excerpt from "A Public Service" Tim Schwartz
security Attribution is hard: the incredible skullduggery used to try to blame the 2018 Olympic cyberattack on North Korea Cory Doctorow
law The Hippocratic License: A new software license that prohibits uses that contravene the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights Cory Doctorow
Copyfight An Indian research university has assembled 73 million journal articles (without permission) and is offering the archive for unfettered scientific text-mining Cory Doctorow
happy mutants World Science Fiction Storybundle: $15 for 10 DRM-free books from around the world, benefiting English PEN Cory Doctorow
law Countries with longer copyright terms have access to fewer books (pay attention, Canada!) Cory Doctorow
News Microsoft takes down MS Celeb facial recognition database, 10 million+ pics of ~100,000 faces, maybe yours, scraped under Creative Commons Xeni Jardin
art "A Message From the Future": short film about the "Green New Deal Decade," narrated by AOC, drawn by Molly Crabapple, presented by Naomi Klein Cory Doctorow
Copyfight After years of insisting that DRM in HTML wouldn't block open source implementations, Google says it won't support open source implementations Cory Doctorow
Business LA Times demands that reporters sign away rights to books, movies and other works they create while working at the paper Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Bryan Adams to Canadian parliament: extending the term of copyright enriches labels and other intermediaries, not artists Cory Doctorow
