194 – Cultural Capture by Chokepoint Capitalism (ft. Rebecca Giblin, Cory Doctorow)
This Machine Kills
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Copyright Termination
The book is about copyright termination, the idea that after a certain number of years, no matter what your contract says, you can just say, I get my copyrights back. Stephen King's taken a bunch of his old books back. George Clinton got all of his compositions back. The best one is that the babysitter's club and Sweet Valley High books were all terminated by the women who wrote them. But it's extraordinarily hard to use. When creators use it, they do really well.
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