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The Best of The Worst Hollow Copyright Claims (medium.com)

tiltowait writes: Slashdot readers should be familiar with most if not all of these, but the list of 20 Hollow Copyright Claims is a somber reminder of the current sorry state of intellectual property laws in the United States--as anyone who's encountered a paywall or a takedown notice (or remembers Slashdot's run-in with Scientology) can attest. It serves as a call to arms that we not lose sight of the benefits to sharing knowledge.

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  1. Re:The mouse will soon push to make them last long by FatdogHaiku · · Score: 3, Funny

    The mouse will soon push to make them last longer and they also want the right to move stuff in to the vault and take off the market just to have them come back out years later.

    ... and now they have The Force on their side...
    Dum dum dum da dumdum da dumdum d-
    Possible Intellectual Property Violation Detected
    no carrier

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