Mockingbird's Imitations (Blogger edition)

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Friday, June 13, 2025

Welcome to 1929

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 Literary works, musical works, and motion pictures published in 1929 whose copyrights were renewed after 28 years are finally in the public...
Friday, January 1, 2021

Welcome to 1925

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 Published works from 1925, whose copyrights were renewed after 28 years, are now  in the public domain.   Among these are The Great Gatsby ...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Autocracy: Rules for Survival (Masha Gessen)

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Masha Gessen, who has lived under autocratic rule, has some rules for survival in an autocracy.
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Reprint: My post of January 18th, 2003 in response to the decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft.

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The following was first posted on January 18th, 2003, in response to the Supreme Court's opinion in the case of Eldred v. Ashcroft. ...
Saturday, September 28, 2013

Happy Michaelmas, everyone!

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Tomorrow is Michaelmas if your parish is named St. Michael's or St. Michael and All Angels.   Also if your parish is something like ...
Sunday, August 25, 2013

What the moon looks like now

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A nice site provided by the U.S. Naval Observatory allows us to see the moon (in a manner of speaking) even when conditions do not favor ...
Saturday, February 11, 2012

Some of the ACTA's problems

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In a post from a few months ago, Mike Masnick discusses one of the problems with the ACTA: It would require parties to punish "commer...
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I am a physicist, musician, software developer. I am also one of the "men of '98" who opposed the Copyright Term Extension Act (CTEA) in 1997-1998.
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