racism Elizabeth Warren has a plan to reform "Heirs' Property," which allows wealthy white property developers to steal Black family homes Cory Doctorow

law Bill Willingham puts his entire Fables comic book property into public domain Ruben Bolling

law Probate judge among those accused of looting dead man's house Rob Beschizza

art Hergé's heirs lose legal battle with Tintin parody artist Rob Beschizza

These deeds to 1 square inch of Yukon territory were given away in cereal boxes Mark Frauenfelder

Journalism VICTORY! New Free File rules ban tax-prep firms from hiding their offerings, allow IRS to compete with them (a love-letter to Propublica) Cory Doctorow

Business AT&T hikes business customers' bills by up to 7%, charging them to recoup its own property taxes Cory Doctorow

law Heirs' property: how southern states allow white land developers to steal reconstruction-era land from Black families Cory Doctorow

elections America's super-rich write to Democratic presidential hopefuls, demanding a wealth tax Cory Doctorow

new york The story of how Buffalo's oldest, best-established Black neighborhood was literally wiped off the map is a perfect parable about systemic bias — UPDATED Cory Doctorow

beating the system Man pretends empty house is his, rents it out, and becomes official owner under squatters' rights Carla Sinclair

law Farming while Black: farmers allegedly sold fake certified seed in an effort to bankrupt them Séamus Bellamy

The continuing saga of Buck Rogers and the Copyright Trolls Rogers Anthony

usausausa How an obscure law allowed white, rich developers to steal African-Americans' land for a century Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Oakland elementary school students resist Caltrans' insistence on taking copyright to their mural Cory Doctorow

Copyfight Minnesota lawmakers propose bizarre, dangerous PRINCE law Cory Doctorow

security The DMCA poisoned the Internet of Things in its cradle Cory Doctorow

corruption Elite "wealth managers": Renfields to the one percent bloodsuckers Cory Doctorow