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A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator

Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com

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Copy Left Trolls

Copy left trolls target people who correctly believe that they're allowed to use a work, but who make minor administrative errors. Take marco verch, who might just be the most prolific copy left troll operating to day. He hires low waged photographers overseas to create work made for higher photos of common stock images and then pounces in legal threats with demands of 250 dollars and up. In at least one case, virc's ransom was so back breaking for a small dutch charity that it closed its doors forever.

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