copyright Fixing McDonald's ice cream machines is no longer a felony Thom Dunn

copyright Spotify accuses indie band of "streaming fraud" over 8-year-old song name Thom Dunn

Disney Microsoft's Bing can't stop people from generating Mickey Mouse Mark Frauenfelder

Games European gaming history often ignored in US-centric retrospectives Rob Beschizza

AI Microsoft's AI offers help with pirating Windows Rob Beschizza

Nintendo Nintendo hits GitHub with 8,000 emulator takedown notices Rob Beschizza

music Attn. Stevie Wonder: Release those 200 unused songs you produced for "Songs in the Key of Life" or lose their EU copyright Ruben Bolling

intellectual property More shady legal trouble over the rights to American classic To Kill a Mockingbird Thom Dunn

occult The Enduring Legacy of Parapsychologist J.B. Rhine Mitch Horowitz

tucker carlson’s war Watch little girl in Ukrainian shelter sing "Let It Go" Mark Frauenfelder

bros Some crypto enthusiasts apparently thought owning a book was owning the rights to it Jason Weisberger

Disney Comic book features questionably public domain Mickey Mouse comics from the 1930s, complete with suicidal gunplay and racist imagery Mark Frauenfelder

misogyny Art gallery removes film that rated 5,000 women from "prettiest to ugliest" Mark Frauenfelder

television Reviled Bush associate to step down after 20-year reign of terror Rob Beschizza

Comics NPR's Planet Money explores the economics of super hero intellectual property Thom Dunn

zombies Some online courses are replacing faculty with dead teachers Thom Dunn

News Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliot Broidy, Lil Wayne, others — 73 pardons, 70 commutations Xeni Jardin

law Github restores youtube-dl Rob Beschizza

science fiction Chinese government releases new guidelines for science fiction Thom Dunn

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