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PropaGandalf
PropaGandalf @ PropaGandalf @lemmy.world
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The "Steamboat Willie" debacle or: Why IP does us more harm than good

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  • Thanks to the so-called “Mickey Mouse Protection Act” of 1998, Disney, along with other entertainment companies, permanently damaged the collective creative landscape by walling off the public domain.

    The great irony, of course, is that Disney built its library of animated classics by adapting European fairy tales that exist in the public domain. Despite Disney benefiting from the free use of old stories, the studio has never hesitated to take legal action to protect its most iconic character, several decades after Walt Disney created him.

    Over the decades, Disney’s brutal copyright take-downs have become the stuff of legend. The litigious studio famously forced daycare centers to remove murals featuring Mickey and Minnie; for Disney, copyright law even applies to a child’s tombstone.

    [...] the mouse is symbolic of a decades-long battle over the public domain, which the public lost. Today, the battleground has shifted, as powerful corporations no longer view tight copyright protection as beneficial, thanks to the requirements of generative AI.

    • The "Steamboat Willie" debacle or: Why IP does us more harm than good

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  • Sry, edited (I forgot that choosing an image will replace the URL aswell)

    • Pornhub pulls out of Montana, NC as age-verification battle rages on

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  • Yeah fuck the state. Only overprotective, power hungry loosers work there anyways.

    • Jankman reviews GIMP

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  • Tantacrul is really a great guy. Look what he made out of musescore...

    • Pirated video games SOURCE CODE

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  • A thanks for explaining. I didn't know that.

    • Pirated video games SOURCE CODE

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  • UE isn't open source afaik

    • Pirated video games SOURCE CODE

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  • I think he means leaks provided as torrents.

    • To defederate or not defederate: user-based vs. server-based content filtering in the fediverse

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  • You realize that there are bad actors everywhere. I won't fear any corpo or government just because they are big or because they might change my environment. It is impossible to take down a decentralized network like the fediverse even if there are only 1000 people left using it. We can always adapt as we already did so many times and I can shape my environment the way I want it too. Who says that we have to be victims? Lets empower the users to make their own decisions.

    • Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads

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  • ;)

    • To defederate or not defederate: user-based vs. server-based content filtering in the fediverse

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  • (sad) Arr!

    • The Fediverse is working just as intended.

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  • I see you really care about the fate of "the others". I don't know. Maybe that's the right reaction but if the people who came here bacause of threads or from threads will disappear again I think I won't bother much. I liked it here with even less people around so I don't really care how many thousand users we have. Fact is the decentralized internet and ActivityPub are the future and there will always be a way.

    • To defederate or not defederate: user-based vs. server-based content filtering in the fediverse

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  • Bad bot!

    • To defederate or not defederate: user-based vs. server-based content filtering in the fediverse

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  • Bruh what?

    • The Fediverse is working just as intended.

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  • Yeah. And now that we have account migration we can switch more easily.

    • Lemmy.world Should Defederate with Threads

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  • I still prefer blocking it myself and having the control myself.

    • 2023 in social media: the case for the fediverse

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  • I couldn't agree more. Great article!

    • Embrace, Extend, and Exploit: Meta's plan for ActivityPub, Mastodon and the fediverse

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  • Jokes on them. I may exploit their federation too. I'm curious what a bunch of nerds could come up with to, lets say, spice up some threads users experiences...

    • Finally found a fix how to stop firefox downloading each PDF to your local drive

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  • I still prefer storing the pdf in the browser cache and downloading it manually if I want than to download it directly to /tmp or anywhere else.

    • Finally found a fix how to stop firefox downloading each PDF to your local drive

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  • Wait do you download the files to you /tmp dir? Or do you store the files in the browser cache?

    • Finally found a fix how to stop firefox downloading each PDF to your local drive

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  • It even says in the description that these settings determine how firefox will handle them after downloading them.