Million-Dollar Donation To Fight Abusive Copyrights

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 5, 2002 @07:56AM from the who-was-that-masked-man? dept.

WeekendKruzr writes: "There is a story on C|Net detailing how Duke University's law school received an anonymous gift of $1 million for the express purpose of funding '...advocacy and research aimed at curtailing the recent expansion of copyright law.' It's good to know that we have some well-funded idealists on our side, even if they are 'Anonymous Cowards.' ;^) This, combined with the recent rash of even large corporations running afoul of intellectual property law, could precipitate some tangible results in the next couple of years."

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Just a minute... by Anixamander · 2002-09-05 08:21 · Score: 5, Funny

It's good to know that we have some well-funded idealists on our side, even if they are 'Anonymous Cowards.' ;^)

Interesting article submission, yet it violates my patent on "a method for using ASCII test to simulate a pointy nosed person winking and smiling ." You will be hearing from my lawyers.

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