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• The Surprising History of Copyright and The Promise of a Post-Copyright World
• Questioning Copyright
• QuestionCopyright.org — FAQ
• A Copyright Bibliography
• Contact Us
• How to Link to QuestionCopyright.org
• Editorial Policy
• Minutes of First Board Meeting, 28 Aug 2007
• Board of Directors
• A Workable Public Buyout Option: Proportional Registration for Copyrights
• The QCO Team
• Corporate Documents, Tax Returns, Etc.
• Ghost Works Survey Email Address
• Donate to QuestionCopyright.org
• The Store
• The BookLiberator
• QuestionCopyright.org Live Chat
• Discussion Groups / Mailing Lists at QuestionCopyright.org
• QuestionCopyright.org Finances.
• Free Culture Five Bookmarks
• Free Culture Fives…en Espanol
• About QuestionCopyright.org
• QCO Newsletters
• 2011 newsletters
• The “I Question Copyright” Badge!
• Videos
• Our Funders
• Segments from “How Copyright Restrictions Suppress Art”: An Interview With Nina Paley About “Sita Sings The Blues”
• The Speakers Bureau
• Speaker – Nina Paley
• Speaker – Karl Fogel
• “I Question Copyright”
• Newsletter – Summer 2011
• The Free Culture Consultancy
• QuestionCopyright.org Projects
• Free Culture Trust
• Artist-in-Residence Program and Working Fund
• Privacy Policy
• Seder-Masochism
• Sample Page
• CiviCRM

• We’re shutting down our non-profit organization, but the site will remain.
• “Standard Technical Measures”: How to Censor Without Getting Your Hands Dirty
• It is done: Nina Paley’s “Apocalypse Animated”
• Why the Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library is a Good Idea.
• All Posts.
• Looking forward to 2020 and beyond: BookLiberator
• The Damage Continues: Internet Infrastructure Degraded By Copyright Enforcement
• This Was Inevitable: Copyright and ISP Blocking
• 2017 Plans
• “Seder-Masochism” Work-in-Progress Screening in New York City, April 21, with QCO Artist-in-Residence Nina Paley
• Congratulations to Creative Commons on new CC-BY-NV license.
• Czech translation of our most popular article, “The Promise of a Post-Copyright World”.
• Překvapivá historie copyrightu a příslib světa po něm
• Copyright Is Brain Damage, Freedom of Speech Begins at Home: Nina Paley Speaks at TEDxMaastricht.
• Elevating to the Public Domain
• Going to Town on Warner/Chappell in the “Happy Birthday” case.
• Nina Paley’s “Ask Me Anything” at Reddit — Art, Truth, Copyright, Censorship.
• One more for 2014: Donate to Snowdrift.coop’s launch campaign.
• Give to Internet Archive in 2014, while a supporter is matching donations at 2-to-1!
• FSCONS 2014 Keynote: “Invisible Monopolies and the Language of Freedom”
• Announcing BookLiberator Beta.
• Copyright as Censorship in Science: Striped Nanoparticle Edition
• Explaining to STM That There Are Not 100 Kinds of “Open”.
• The Struggling Artist: Setting a Historical Baseline
• Copyright “restrictions”: Farhad Manjoo of the NYT uses accurate language.
• Fourth RE/Mixed Media Festival in NYC — April 26-27 at the New School.
• Copyright and Surveillance
• In Chicago: “Sita Sings the Blues” Screening @ Columbia College (4:30pm, Thu, Feb 6th)
• Syllabus for Prof. Howard Besser’s “Free Culture & Open Access” course at NYU.
• Danny Colligan on public funding for artists.
• Make Art, Not Law
• A Month Since Internet Archive Fire — Donations Being Matched 3-to-1 before 2014!
• Two Moglen events you should hear — this Wednesday, and next Thursday.
• Eben Moglen talks in New York City: “Snowden and the Future”.
• We Pledged $500 to the Tupi Animation Software Kickstarter campaign — join us?
• Free-culture Project “Lunatics!” is back on Kickstarter
• Bob Ostertag On Trying Freedom.
• Doing it right: Suing Warner/Chappell for copyfraud because “Happy Birthday” song is in the public domain.
• Seeing the Consequences of Copyright
• Make Art, Not Law.
• Cómo liberar tu trabajo
• Lascaux Cave Painter Descendents to Recover Royalties
• Brains in Jails: Bad Metaphors Make Bad Journalism
• Why Is Free So Hard?
• Leo Babauta of zenhabits: an author who gets freedom.
• Ahimsa: Sita Sings the Blues now CC-0 “Public Domain”
• Remembering Aaron Swartz.
• The Good Work of Unglue.it.
• The Liberation Point: Managing Monopolies for the Public Good
• Not Wrong.
• Let the Money in the Door: Opportunity in the Case of an Independent Artist
• Nina Paley’s “Seder-Masochism”: Support her work via QCO Working Fund!
• The Future of Creative Commons: Examining defenses of the NC and ND clauses
• “Lunatics” Project – Voice /Animatic Kickstarter Ending Soon
• August break.
• “Lunatics” Free-Culture Series — Pilot Episode Kickstarter
• Summertime in the Department of Easy Refutations.
• Pirate Party NY Choir Protest on July 14, in front of ASCAP headquarters .
• “Creatorism” and the Rise of Speculative Invoicing.
• “In Defense of Free Music” — Smashing Article by Zac Shaw
• Google to report on who prevents sharing, and how often.
• Lib-Ray Non-DRM HD Video Standard Project Launched on Kickstarter
• Looking for a trusts & estates lawyer for help with a new initiative.
• Artist Gwenn Seemel: Copyright is about fear, not money.
• QCO Minute Meme “Copying Is Not Theft” Sets the Frame Again on Al Jazeera
• Copyright Gone Mad in Canada
• Our New Headquarters.
• Sing it, Leah Day! Standing Up Against “Copyright Terrorism” in Quilting.
• “We Don’t Want Everything For Free. We Just Want Everything”
• Karen Sandler of QCO on Free Content Panel at SXSW.
• Stationers Company Redux: The Privatization of the Information Police Force
• The Comedy of Copyright Math
• Copying Is Not Theft, But Censorship Is
• Starting out the New Year: QCO Minute Meme sighting on Al Jazeera
• Dear New York Times: Don’t Do the Copyright and Patent Industry’s Work For Them.
• The Case for Open Access in China.
• “Lunatics” Animated Science Fiction Web Series Kickstarter
• It’s Working: SOPA Losing Momentum. Ask Sen. Wyden to Read Your Name During a Filibuster…
• Nov. 16th is American Censorship Day — Help Stop U.S. Internet Blacklisting.
• How To Free Your Work video
• Answering Questions About the SOPA / E-PARASITE Bill.
• Remix Stallman, Anyone? (Or: Why Won’t the Founder of Free Software Embrace Free Culture?)
• A good sign: Blackboard.com bucks the trend and promotes a truly free license.
• Lawrence Golan Speaks about Golan v. Holder
• NYC Artists to Learn “How to Free Their Work”
• The Future Of Music Coalition’s Money From Music Survey
• Nina Free Motion Quilting at Maker Faire New York 2011
• Report Back: 2011 OVC Conference
• Nina Kickstarts Again!
• Help Wanted – Volunteer for QCO
• Nina Paley and Richard M. Stallman at the Pages & Places Book Festival in Scranton, PA
• The Public Domain Review
• What Is Free Culture?
• Aaron Swartz Stole Nothing, But You Wouldn’t Know That From the Coverage.
• GEMA censorship in Germany.
• RANTIFESTO
• Credit is Due (The Attribution Song)
• How To Free Your Work
• For Love or Money: Vocationalism
• Nina Paley to present at OKCon 2011
• Why Piracy is Good and Copyright Sucks: An Excerpt From “Sell Your Own Damn Movie!”
• Copiare Non é Rubare, the Italian version of Copying Is Not Theft Minute Meme!
• Censorship Vs. Copyright
• Lawyers Using Bots to Hassle Busy People, or: How I had to waste time giving myself permission to quote and paraphrase myself, really
• Forbidden Works: The “free speech” rights of secondary authors.
• The Free Culture Fives Are Here!
• Real Artists Don’t Wait.
• Legal Intern Wanted for Special Project
• Questioncopyright.org Newsletter – Spring 2011
• Testing the Kickstarter waters: support Nina Paley’s new booklet!
• Another Writer Embraces Free Culture
• Yes Means Yes
• The Open Utopia Project: A Beautiful Use of the Public Domain.
• Што мы губляем Калі мы прымаем аўтарскіх правоў
• Le conte des deux auteurs : pourquoi l’un est traduit et l’autre pas
• Le conte des deux auteurs : pourquoi l’un est traduit et l’autre pas
• Hail Caesar: Creative Commons and the Small Press
• Some copylove from the Free Motion Quilting Project.
• Copiar não é roubar — “Copying Is Not Theft” sung in Brazilian Portuguese!
• Regretsy FTW: Resisting Commercial Censorship Disguised As Copyright.
• Dear Authors…
• Readers’ Bill of Rights For Digital Books
• And the Winner for Most Ironic Oscar is…
• Un-Original Business Model
• Copying Is Not Theft — A Capella Remix
• Three glimpses: Transformative work, public domain music, and ethics
• “Incentive to Create…”
• A Tale of Two Authors: Why Translations Happen, or Don’t.
• What would you say to Peter?
• Want To Be a Legal Intern at QuestionCopyright.org?
• QuestionCopyright.org receives $10,000 grant from Kahle/Austin Foundation.
• Falkvinge steps down at Swedish Pirate Party; Troberg steps up.
• Say It With A Strip: Mimi & Eunice on Copyright
• Authoritarian
• The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet
• Some numbers from the Sita Distribution Project
• Letter to NPR’s “On The Media” about the Cooks Source controversy.
• Copy Bunny Progress Bar & .fla files now on Archive.org
• What to read first?
• Creative Commons’ Branding Confusion
• H.O.P.E. for Free Culture
• Best Debate Evah: Cory Doctorow and Nina Paley discuss licensing and freedom.
• The Four Freedoms of Free Culture
• Nina Paley Wins IP3 Award from Public Knowledge!
• The BookLiberator.
• Electronic Frontier Foundation celebrates 20 years with new animation from Nina Paley.
• Advertising Revenue Under a Creator Endorsement Model
• Solution to login problems (Firefox, Safari, IE).
• Pārsteidzošā autortiesību vēsture un pasaule bez tām
• Zapowiedź świata post-copyright
• CopySouth Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, coming up!
• GAO Report Debunks Claims that Piracy is a Major Threat to U.S. Economy
• Internet Archive launches new service for the print-disabled: free access to over 1 million books, including current titles.
• How an Audience-Distributed Film Won Big: talk at WordCamp SF
• The Cobbler: A New Career Model for Artists and Entertainers
• Final Version of “Copying Is Not Theft” Released!
• An embarrassing misunderstanding…
• Brian Lehrer Live television interview with Nina Paley and Karl Fogel
• Wasn’t it Romantic?
• Tell the U.S. government how to protect us from copyright criminals.
• An Alternative Primer on National and International Copyright Law
• The Creator-Endorsed Mark in Action: Mars Yau’s Sita iPhone apps
• Welcome to our new legal interns, Kat Walsh and Victor Cohen.
• What We Lose When We Embrace Copyright
• All Creative Work Is Derivative (Minute Meme #2)
• The Revolution Will Be Animated
• Andy Warhol Foundation Supports our Minute Memes Project with $30k Grant.
• Freedom Doublespeak.
• Showstopper.
• “Sita Sings the Blues” on the big screen in New York City! HELD OVER AGAIN
• Redefining Property: Lessons from American History
• Copying Is Not Theft (Minute Meme #1)
• Free Culture, Book Freedom: Prof. Gabriella Coleman of NYU
• How Big are Books?
• Guest Blogger: “ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe”
• NYC Re/Mixed Media Festival 2010: Paying it forward
• Sketching is copying; copying is stealing. Coming soon: no breathing.
• EFF “Hall of Shame” Highlights Copyright Used as Censorship
• Going on the Offensive: Abolition or Reform?
• At the Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference, Nov. 5-7
• Criminalizing the normal normalizes the criminal.
• “We Are Creators Too”: Art Brodsky of Public Knowledge Interviews Nina Paley
• Proposing CC-PRO: A License For Professionals
• Sita Distribution Project: Results
• La promessa di un mondo senza copyright
• Artyści powinni być wynagradzani za swą pracę
• “Artists Should Be Compensated For Their Work”
• Wanted: Examples of Copyright Being Used For Censorship
• Help Us Brainstorm This Grant Application!
• Looks like censorship, smells like censorship… maybe it IS censorship?
• At the Open Video Conference
• Swedish Pirate Party makes it into European Parliament!
• Why Artists Share
• Breaking the bargain: copyright extensions violate “moral rights”
• Understanding Free Content
• “Sita Sings the Blues” DVD Announcement List (now closed — visit the store instead!)
• “Copying Isn’t Theft” — Your Versions
• Calling All Musicians: Can You Arrange This Song?
• The Creator-Endorsed Mark
• Help Wanted: Can Your Servers Host a Feature Film?
• Night Of The Living Dead Business Model
• Come to our New York City meeting, Monday, Feb. 2
• A Copyright Reform Glossary.
• The Sita Sings the Blues Distribution Project
• How Copyright Restrictions Suppress Art: An Interview With Nina Paley About “Sita Sings The Blues”
• Free Culture & Columbia Political Union present: Panel Discussion on Illegal Downloading
• Minute Memes
• 后版权世界的希望
• U.S. Senate Bill 3325: Exactly The Wrong Law
• Can laws be copyrighted? Carl Malamud and public.resource.org say no…
• “Piracy Is Not Theft” graphic by Patri Friedman
• August Break.
• Help Wanted — We’re Launching the Ghost Works Survey
• Talking on Copyright at ApacheCon EU in Amsterdam, April 9th.
• Control At Any Cost: Copyright vs Christian Rock
• Presenting at O’Reilly’s Tools of Change for Publishing Conference
• Cease and Desist Censorship
• Musicians Censoring Themselves
• Swedish Pirate Party’s Influence Beginning to Show…
• Help Keep Bibliographic Data License-Free
• Open Government Data Principles
• Minutes of Second Board Meeting, 30 Nov 2007
• France Decides Not To Use The Internet After All
• Pimps and Ferrets: Copyright and Culture in the United States, 1831-1891
• Interview with Bob Ostertag: Releasing an Album Free on the Internet
• A Classroom Teacher on Copying vs Plagiarism
• The Fight for Fair Use
• Translations of this site.
• (translation) 版权不应存在的理由
• (translation) 一位音乐老师讲述版权如何阻碍了音乐教育
• New York University Confuses Filesharing with Plagiarism
• Rick Falkvinge’s (Swedish Pirate Party) Bay Area Talks Now Online
• OSCON 2007 Talks
• Some numbers from an on-demand publisher…
• The “Author-Endorsed” Mark: A Proposal for Informed Sharing
• “The Case for the Death of Copyright” (editorial in the Vancouver Sun by Jacob Tummon)
• Great Ideas Live Forever — But Only If We Let Them.
• A Declared Value System for Market-Based Copyright and Patent Monopolies
• What would you say to Mark Helprin?
• Supporting Open Source While Opposing Copyright
• Reaction to “Igor Stravinsky’s Copyright Blues”
• Seen Any Ghost Works Lately?
• The Professional Suicide of a Recording Musician
• Report from the Berkeley DRM Conference…
• Discussing DRM in Montréal…
• The Joyce Hatto Case: How Filesharing Defeats Plagiarism
• Gear for Radical Copyright Reform
• Join Us!
• Interview With Matthew Gertner at AllPeers Blog
• Video of “History of Copyright & Information Ownership” presentation now available.
• Copyright Presentation — Thursday, 19 October 2006, 2pm, Stanford University Library
• The Public’s Perception of Copyright — Video Interviews with Randomly-Selected People in Chicago
• Copyright Presentation — 16 August 2006, at LinuxWorld
• Slides for History of Copyright presentation at 2006 O’Reilly Open Source Conference
• Let the Great Cross-Referencing Begin: Google Book Search as Plagiarism Detector
• A Music Teacher Describes How Copyright Hinders Music Education
• Myths About Copyright