By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026Everything else is one of those "truths" that the framers "held to be self-evident." In these two cases, they decided to explain their thinking. 1101
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026So the point of copyright is to incentivize investment in creative works, and its mechanism is a set of limited rights over those works, for limited times. 181
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/09/2026Copyright expires, and it is subject to "limitations and exceptions," including "fair use," a very broad set of highly situational rights to use works even if the rightsholder objects: pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/a...pluralistic.netPluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 182
