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Today, Congress allowed Steamboat Willie — the origin cartoon for Mickey Mouse — to pass into the public domain. Eric Eldred helped make this happen, when, 25 years ago, he challenged Congress’s…

Today, Congress allowed Steamboat Willie — the origin cartoon for Mickey Mouse — to pass into the public domain. Eric Eldred helped make this happen, when, 25 years ago, he challenged Congress’s…

Today, Congress allowed Steamboat Willie — the origin cartoon for Mickey Mouse — to pass into the public domain. Eric Eldred helped make this happen, when, 25 years ago, he challenged Congress’s…

Did you know that there's a good version of "Star Wars Episode 1"? It's called "The Phantom Edit," and it was put together by a fan with a knack for editing film. The so-called Phantom editor tightened up some of the action sequences, cut out a lot of Jar Jar's dumb antics and released his much-impr

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The recently released files of the late Associate Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens reveal interesting details concerning some of the Court’s significant copyright decisions, but leave important questions unanswered. Justice Stevens (1920-2019) left his papers to the Library of Congress, which opened them to the public in May 2023. (See here for a blog post on Justice…

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Wikipedia Day: The most popular open-source information platform completes 20 years Pinterest 15th January is observed across the globe as the day when one of the most popular open source information resource was born. Interestingly, Creative Commons, an American Non-Profit organization, also registered their website on the same day Wikipedia came into existence. Creative Commons was founded by by Lawrence Lessig, Hal Abelson, and Eric Eldred. It created the free and open copyright system whic...