[Link] Copyright, What You Need To Know

Read: 6/2/2022 hackaday.com

Last week brought the story of a group of crypto enthusiasts who paid well over the going rate for a rare sci-fi book, then proposed encoding scans of all its pages in a blockchain before making and selling NFTs of them. To guarantee their rarity the book was then to be burned.

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[Link] Company that retains exclusive rights to make Aboriginal flags says government has ‘misled’ community

Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com

The federal government’s announcement that it has “freed” the Aboriginal flag is misleading and has been seriously misinterpreted, according to the company which still holds the exclusive licence to make Aboriginal flags for sale.

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