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Copyright infringement is the unauthorized use of works under copyright, infringing the copyright holder's "exclusive rights", such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the copyrighted work, spread the information contained within copyrighted works, or to make derivative works.
Because the industry charged artists for everything, that put the artists on the line as "owners" of the work and its production, which means that now when they're looking to terminate old licensing agreements.
Cleverly disguised as the back-end "explanations" to their new photo-uploading process, The Wikimedia Commons has just taken a ballsy stance on copyright and created what may become the first true global repository of open content.
The broad inclusiveness of the current copyright regime is justified by its purported benefit to the creative class, yet the broad inalienable rights create a “tragedy of the anticommons” wherein the presence of too many rights-holders is frustrating the outcome that would maximize utility for society.
User-generated content (“UGC”) is ubiquitous on the Internet. Sites develop around providing users a platform to upload their creations. Yeah, well, technically a lot of that stuff’s illegal. Modders, mixers, or makers of machinima may participate in the free exchange of creative material, yet strict application of copyright law may criminalize them as willful infringers…
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