
A Bug in Early Creative Commons Licenses Has Enabled a New Breed of Superpredator
Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
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Copyleft Trolls
Creative commons licenses are used to facilitate all kinds of collaborative endeavor. But the drafters of the creative commons licenses made a small oversight, one that was not rectified for 14 years after the project's launch. The copy left troll is a copyright preditor that exclusively targets people who haven't violated copyright. It's even more of a pure pre play than the copyright troll racket, says John Defterios.
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