🔗 I’m still team #AbolishIP but this is excellent: Proud Boys Trademark Being Used by Black Church for Shirts
Black Church Already Selling Proud Boys-Style Merch After Winning Trademark

Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church is already selling Proud Boys-styled merchandise after winning the extremist group's trademark.

Rolling Stone

A regular reminder that while Copyright is a global censorship regime, Patents are mass murder.

#AbolishIntellectualProperty #AbolishIP

Pluralistic: It all started with a mouse (15 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Govts. Must 'Encourage or Compel' Internet Companies to Fight Piracy * TorrentFreak

https://torrentfreak.com/govts-must-encourage-or-compel-internet-companies-to-fight-piracy-230831/

#AbolishIP #SharingIsCaring

Govts. Must ‘Encourage or Compel’ Internet Companies to Fight Piracy

A major rightsholder coalition says that governments must encourage or compel internet companies to collaborate in the fight against piracy.

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Pluralistic: Autoenshittification (24 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

@mastodonmigration Doesn't this kinda break the #ActivityPub protocol in the first place? Like if you're supposedly not sure if you're legally allowed to reproduce data from another site.. How can federation even work? I suppose the protocol should have some legal writing saying that whatever you put at an API endpoint must be free to copy/show to users etc..

Can we please just abolish copyright and all IP? #aboliship

Top EU Court To Consider If Copyright Is More Important Than Privacy

Back in November last year, Walled Culture reported on the shocking opinion by a top EU court advisor that copyright was more important than privacy. The case in question was brought by four F…

Techdirt
Disney Gets A Nice Fat Tax Break For Making Its Streaming Catalog Worse

We just got done discussing how, as the streaming video space consolidates and grows, it’s starting to behave more and more like the unpopular, consolidated cable and broadcast companies they…

Techdirt
High Prices Make Textbook ‘Piracy’ Acceptable to Most Students

New research published by the Rights Alliance shows that more than half of all students find it acceptable to use pirated books.

TF Publishing
Music Company Asks Google to Delist ‘YouTube Downloader’ Wikipedia Article

A recent DMCA anti-circumvention notice asks Google to remove a Wikipedia entry that lists a comparison of YouTube downloaders.

TF Publishing