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1. BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏 (herrabre@mastodon.xyz)'s status on Saturday, 19-May-2018 04:19:29 EDT BjarniBjarniBjarni 🙊 🇮🇸 🍏

   Apparently some silly USians want to extend copyright again: https://boingboing.net/2018/05/18/orrin-fucking-hatch.html

   Repeating my Twitter reaction:

   When will musicians realize that their biggest competitor is ALL THE PAST RECORDINGS EVER and revolt against this madness?

   The Internet is not what makes music hard work. Never was! It's competing with Elvis & Mozart.

   Demand the right to build on the past, not compete with it.

   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 11:20:15 EDT clacke

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      @herrabre Wow. Just wow. These people.
      
      http://www.copyrightextension.com/
      
      Apparently Hatch was the face of the Sonny Bono round. I only knew him as random prominent politician.
      
      http://www.copyrightextension.com/page03.html is an excerpt of his speech when introducing the bill.
      1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 11:21:05 EDT clacke

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         The irony when a work like "The Mythology of the Public Domain: Exploring the Myths Behind Attacks on the Duration of Copyright Protection" is at an URL like http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/llr/vol36/iss1/7/ .
         1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 11:41:04 EDT clacke

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            Oh wow, I started reading it but now I realized the damn thing is 71 pages long. But I saw the first clear-as-day strawman already on page 3, so I feel like it's just good self-care to put this thing to the side and not read it until I feel the need for some righteous rage.
   2. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 21-May-2018 15:16:08 EDT clacke

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      @herrabre TechDirt's take: https://social.heldscal.la/url/1543628