Eric Vautier @evautier@librem.one

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: 2023's public domain is a banger; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/20/free-for-2023/

#Pluralistic

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In #Canada, #JustinTrudeau caved to Donald Trump and retroactively expanded copyright terms by 20 years, as part of #USMCA, the successor to #NAFTA. Trudeau ignored teachers, professors, librarians and the Minister of Justice, who said that copyright extension should require "a modest registration requirement" - so 20 years of copyright will be tacked onto all works, including those with no owners:

https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2022/04/the-canadian-government-makes-its-choice-implementation-of-copyright-term-extension-without-mitigating-against-the-harms/

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Infamously, the Doyle Estate went after the creators of the #EnolaHolmes series, claiming a copyright over Sherlock stories in which Holmes was "capable of friendship," "expressed emotion," or "respected women." This is a nonsensical theory, based on the idea that these character traits are copyrightable. They are *not*:

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/#fn6text

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🌍 Artist: #TocToc - in City: #Paris France 🇫🇷 - Title: "La jeune fille à la caméra de surveillance" - (The girl with the security camera
Das Mädchen mit der Überwachungskamera) - #Streetart #Art #Mastoart #Mural #Vermeer #Artwork #Funart 😁

‘Snowflake on a Raven’s Wing’
Shawn Bergman - Vancouver, BC
#CanadianArtist #CanadianQuotes

“If you can’t be in awe of nature, there is something wrong with you” - Alex Trebek

Was reminded of this during a #Microsoft event this morning. Still great.

Rosalind Franklin’s research was crucial to discovering DNA’s double helix structure 🧬 but it was James Watson & Francis Crick who received the credit & Nobel Prize.

Unknown to Franklin, the pair saw her unpublished data & X-ray diffraction images, inspiring their famous model. They never acknowledged her contribution until after her death.

How many discoveries & innovations of #women do we attribute to the men who took credit for their ideas?

https://theconversation.com/sexism-pushed-rosalind-franklin-toward-the-scientific-sidelines-during-her-short-life-but-her-work-still-shines-on-her-100th-birthday-139249 #history #science

This is a story that I think did not get nearly enough attention yesterday. Meta just published a report about the action they've taken against 7 more hacking for hire companies and they've included a list of policy suggestions for curbing the hacking for hire industry.

https://about.fb.com/news/2022/12/protecting-people-from-online-threats-in-2022/

Io in True Color https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221211.html #APOD

A #StarrySights stunner! 😍

Welcome to NGC 1850, a star cluster about 160,000 light-years away in a satellite galaxy to our own Milky Way, known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Read more: https://go.nasa.gov/3VIoe2u
#Hubble

How the Northern Lights are created:

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