- TIL in the 1960s, books that were published in the US over 28 years ago automatically became free in order to "encourage learning." Today, due to pressure from companies, books remain copyrighted for over 100 years and selling copyrighted books can lead to $150,000 damages. http://www.arl.org/focus-areas/copyright-ip/2486-copyright-timeline 906 comments books
Linking pages
- USA TODAY http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/11/09/6-bills-copyright-gop-should-pass-republican-agenda-column/18773951/ 6 comments
- Plagiarism is a distinctively American problem - Vox http://www.vox.com/2016/7/21/12247032/melania-trump-plagiarism-history 1 comment
- Remembering SOPA/PIPA https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/01/18/remembering-sopapipa/ 0 comments
- The Trans-Pacific Partnership and the necessity of reclaiming the world of ideas | by Jordan Hall | Emergent Culture | Medium https://medium.com/emergent-culture/the-trans-pacific-partnership-and-the-necessity-of-reclaiming-the-world-of-ideas-54992fc139a6#.653455fdd 0 comments
Linked pages
- National Institutes of Health (NIH) | Turning Discovery Into Health https://nih.gov 55 comments
- U.S. Constitution | U.S. Constitution | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html 17 comments
- http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.pdf 13 comments
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