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

Posted by samzenpus on from the worst-practices dept.

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. Missed one by PvtVoid · · Score: 4, Interesting

    One of the most disgusting recent copyright stunts was the Anne Frank Foundation extending the copyright on her diary by claiming Otto Frank as a co-author.

    If anything ought to be considered owned by the world as a whole, it's Anne Frank's diary.