Cory DoctorowDec 20, 2022

40 years ago, giant entertainment companies embarked on a slow-moving act of arson. The fuel for this arson was #copyright #TermExtension (making copyrights last longer), including *retrospective* copyright term extensions that took works out of the #PublicDomain and put them back into copyright for decades. Vast swathes of culture became off-limits, pseudo-property with absentee landlords, with much of it crumbling into dust.

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Show threadMike Taylor 🦕Dec 20, 2022
@pluralistic My only problem with this is that Agatha Christie's "The Big Four" is a terrible, terrible book. Possible the worst she ever wrote.
Show threadCory DoctorowDec 20, 2022
@mike Great! You can rewrite it now!
Show threadMike Taylor 🦕Dec 21, 2022
@pluralistic That is an excellent point! Alas, some works are beyond redemption, and The Big Four is solidly in that sector.
Show threadLilly IDec 22, 2022
@mike @pluralistic Small mastodon comment -- hiding your short tweet length toots behind the "Long thread" and expando button kind of hurts my already repetitively stressed hand and your toots are so bite sized, the do not overtake the feed anyways!
Show threadHealth Data AbacusDec 22, 2022
@gleemie @mike @pluralistic just one more note - for Tusky on Android there's a 'expand all CWs in this thread' button (the eye) in the top right corner.
Afraid I don't know if any other clients do that....
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@health_data_abacus @gleemie @mike @pluralistic this is huge. Thanks for the tip
Dec 22, 2022 at 6:32pmWeb