By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/08/2026(The series that started in the decades during which the public domain was frozen by the Sonny Bono Copyright Act.) Jenkins has a gift for making one of the most complicated, worst understood, most consequential areas of law not only comprehensible, but also *fascinating*. 3/ 161
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/08/2026Her late 2023 explanation of what "Mickey Mouse's copyright is expiring" actually *meant* was the single best explainer on the subject, in a crowded field: pluralistic.net/2023/12/15/m... 4/pluralistic.netPluralistic: It all started with a mouse (15 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 171
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/08/2026Small wonder that she's the go-to copyright and trademark expert for so many media outlets. Perhaps you heard her Planet Money segments on which superheroes are in the public domain: www.npr.org/transcripts/... 5/npr.orgWe Buy A Superhero 2: Loophole : Planet MoneyMarvel was not interested in selling us Doorman. But there is another way to jumpstart our superhero empire. | Find the full Planet Money Superhero series here. 261