A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator
Copyleft trolls, robosigning, and Pixsy.Here’s a supreme irony: the Creative Commons licenses were invented to enable a culture of legally safe sharing, spurred by the legal terror campaign waged by the entertainment industry, led by a literal criminal predator who is now in prison for sex crimes.But because of a small oversight in old versions of the licenses created 12 years ago, a new generation of legal predator has emerged to wage a new campaign of legal terror.To make matters worse, this n...
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