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Copyright Law in Rhyming Form

Monday, July 10, 2006

Via BoingBoing comes all of Title 17 of the United States Code, which encapsulates all of American copyright law, in short quartains with ABAB rhyming scheme. On 17 USC 107 (fair use):
Despite all of these rights
All people can reproduce
To report, criticise, or teach
Because that is fair use
Almost as interesting as the verse is the copyright [...]

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Pledging for Fair Use

Friday, June 17, 2005

I was reading earlier in the week about PledgeBank, a website where you can create pledges to do something, but are only required to complete your task if a certain number of other people also make that promise. As the site claims, you can "Tell the world 'I'll do it, but only if you'll help [...]

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