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A Month Since Internet Archive Fire -- Donations Being Matched 3-to-1 before...
It's been a little over a month since the November 6th fire that destroyed the scanning center building at the Internet Archive. No one was hurt, but as Archive founder Brewster Kahle wrote in a blog...
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Fourth RE/Mixed Media Festival in NYC -- April 26-27 at the New School.
We've been fans of what the RE/Mixed Media Festival is up to ever since we first heard about it in 2010. Now they're in their fourth year! The next one will take place at the New School in New York...
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Copyright "restrictions": Farhad Manjoo of the NYT uses accurate language.
At QCO we make a point of calling things by their right names, and of encouraging others to do so. For example, we always talk about "copyright restrictions", instead of using the pro-monopoly...
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Explaining to STM That There Are Not 100 Kinds of "Open".
Question Copyright recently signed on to an open letter to the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers (STM), calling on them to withdraw the counterproductive model...
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Copyright as Censorship in Science: Striped Nanoparticle Edition
A band of researchers has been tirelessly trying to demonstrate that a body of scientific work which rests on a paper from over 10 years ago is completely wrong. The only problem is, their argument...
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Announcing BookLiberator Beta.
Announcing BookLiberator Beta — the affordable, low-tech book digitizer that's made of wood, looks good in your living room or library, and can scan 600-900 pages per hour!Order now from our online...
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Give to Internet Archive in 2014, while a supporter is matching donations at...
For the remainder of 2014 -- just a few hours, depending on your time zone -- a supporter is matching donations to the Internet Archive at 2-to-1. If you give $50, that's $150 total for the...
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One more for 2014: Donate to Snowdrift.coop's launch campaign.
Snowdrift.coop has been quietly building a platform for sustainably supporting libre digital works -- "a matching patronage system funding freely-licensed works", in their words. Snowdrift is trying...
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Nina Paley's "Ask Me Anything" at Reddit -- Art, Truth, Copyright, Censorship.
QCO Artist-in-Residence Nina Paley did an AMA ("Ask Me Anything") on Reddit today, for "Fair Use" Week:"Cartoonist, animator, and activist Nina Paley here to talk about making art and fair use!"She was...
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Going to Town on Warner/Chappell in the "Happy Birthday" case.
We've written about the Happy Birthday lawsuit here before. Now it seems the case has reached a turning point -- a "smoking gun" has been found, thanks to research in the files of the pro-monopoly...
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Czech translation of our most popular article, "The Promise of a...
By far the most popular article on this site (over half a million views now and counting) is The Surprising History of Copyright and the Promise of a Post-Copyright World. Courtesy of Antonín Houska,...
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Congratulations to Creative Commons on new CC-BY-NV license.
Question Copyright congratulates Creative Commons on the release of the new Creative Commons Attribution No-Value 1.0 International license, which allows covered works to be distributed freely with...
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2017 Plans
Happy New Year, copyright questioners!As some of you may have noticed, we spent a good deal of 2016 in hibernation. QCO is a volunteer-run organization, and sometimes those volunteers get busy with...
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This Was Inevitable: Copyright and ISP Blocking
It was just a matter of time before some large-scale holder of copyright monopolies tried this in the U.S...The American Chemical Society has asked a U.S. court to require Internet Service Providers...
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Announcing BookLiberator Beta.
Announcing BookLiberator Beta — the affordable, low-tech book digitizer that's made of wood, looks good in your living room or library, and can scan 600-900 pages per hour!Order now from our online...
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Give to Internet Archive in 2014, while a supporter is matching donations at...
For the remainder of 2014 -- just a few hours, depending on your time zone -- a supporter is matching donations to the Internet Archive at 2-to-1. If you give $50, that's $150 total for the...
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One more for 2014: Donate to Snowdrift.coop's launch campaign.
Snowdrift.coop has been quietly building a platform for sustainably supporting libre digital works -- "a matching patronage system funding freely-licensed works", in their words. Snowdrift is trying...
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Nina Paley's "Ask Me Anything" at Reddit -- Art, Truth, Copyright, Censorship.
QCO Artist-in-Residence Nina Paley did an AMA ("Ask Me Anything") on Reddit today, for "Fair Use" Week:"Cartoonist, animator, and activist Nina Paley here to talk about making art and fair use!"She was...
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Going to Town on Warner/Chappell in the "Happy Birthday" case.
We've written about the Happy Birthday lawsuit here before. Now it seems the case has reached a turning point -- a "smoking gun" has been found, thanks to research in the files of the pro-monopoly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Czech translation of our most popular article, "The Promise of a...
By far the most popular article on this site (over half a million views now and counting) is The Surprising History of Copyright and the Promise of a Post-Copyright World. Courtesy of Antonín Houska,...
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