Disney Disney CEO will donate to the public school hit with a licensing fee for "illegally" screening The Lion King Mark Frauenfelder

publishing Internet Archive ending free e-books program over publisher lawsuit, National Emergency Library to close for 2 weeks Xeni Jardin

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Copyfight How #Article13 is like the Inquisition: John Milton Against the EU #CopyrightDirective Ada Palmer

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corruption Addressing inequality is foreign policy, not domestic Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Failed white supremacist "law-and-order" Toronto mayoral candidate is now breaking the law by selling Canadian coat-of-arms merch Cory Doctorow

News FCC closed due to government shutdown, Ajit Pai won't be at CES Xeni Jardin

design Why every company has its own font now Rob Beschizza

Copyfight Let's get artists paid by making Big Tech pay them, not by creating EU copyright filters Cory Doctorow

Business Cut the cord NOW: Cable bills are up 50% since 2010 Cory Doctorow

eff EFF just sent this letter to every official negotiating the EU's Copyright Directive Cory Doctorow

Business Google to charge hardware makers up to $40 per device for Android mobile apps Xeni Jardin

movie The HAL 9000 Christmas ornament Rusty Blazenhoff

holes An ode to the audio jack as an engineering marvel Clive Thompson

Copyfight "We Shall Overcome" has overcome copyfraud and is now unambiguously public domain Cory Doctorow

politics Corinthian Leather: the collected political nightmare photoshops Rob Beschizza

design Terrific history of Benguiat, the 'Stranger Things' font Andrea James

surveillance BBC will use surveillance powers to sniff Britons' wifi and find license-cheats Cory Doctorow