[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] Trump Invokes Presidential ‘Absolute Immunity’ in Electric Avenue Copyright Suit

Read: 1/11/2021 torrentfreak.com

Last month, lawyers acting for Donald Trump failed to have a court dismiss a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by musician Eddy Grant over the unlicensed use of his track Electric Avenue in a campaign video.

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[Link] Mastodon Lawyers Tell Trump Social Network to Make Source Code Public

Read: 31/10/2021 www.vice.com

Lawyers for the social network codebase Mastodon have sent a formal letter to former President Donald Trump’s upcoming social network ‘Truth Social’ asking the site to make its source code publicly available, according to an announcement from Mastodon today.

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[Link] Bitcoin Miner Facing $5.6M Fine for Starting Rogue Power Plant

Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com

It started with a mysterious humming noise that sounded like a wave “but 100 times more annoying,” according to local reports.

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