Calling All Cars Named Eleanor! The Ninth Circuit Has Decided You’re Not Copyrightable After All

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Calling All Cars Named Eleanor! The Ninth Circuit Has Decided You’re Not Copyrightable After All

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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Libre Culture@lemmy.ca · 25 days ago

There are many stupid things about copyright law today, and one of them is how copyright law applies to characters. Because it shouldn’t, at least not in the ways it does. Copyright can legit…

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