copyright A federal judge declared that a famous song about public property is still private property Thom Dunn
copyright A pair of musicians recorded every possible MIDI melody just to get around copyright law Thom Dunn
eff More than 130 European businesses tell the European Parliament: Reject the #CopyrightDirective Cory Doctorow
happy mutants The worst possible version of the EU Copyright Directive has sparked a German uprising Cory Doctorow
eu Europe's biggest sports leagues and movie studios disavow #Article13, say it will give #BigTech even more control Cory Doctorow
1201 Apple's extension of "Activation Locks" to laptops will turn refurbishable electronics into e-waste Cory Doctorow
security One Weird Law That Interferes With Security Research, Remix Culture, and Even Car Repair Kit Walsh
article 13 Clever hack that will end badly: playing copyrighted music during Nazis rallies so they can't be posted to Youtube Cory Doctorow
competition "I Shouldn't Have to Publish This in The New York Times": my op-ed from the future Cory Doctorow
article 13 Competition can fix Big Tech, but only if we don't make "bigness" a legal requirement Cory Doctorow
eff Adversarial interoperability: reviving an elegant weapon from a more civilized age to slay today's monopolies Cory Doctorow
privacy Americans believe that they should own the mountains of data produced by their cars, but they don't Cory Doctorow
late stage capitalism "Steering With the Windshield Wipers": why nothing we're doing to fix Big Tech is working Cory Doctorow