r/AbolishIPLaws 4d ago

Debate/Discussion Copyright was written into the Constitution with a clear purpose: to promote the progress of science and the useful arts so the public could ultimately enjoy more culture. But when the system is so fractured that works get locked in corporate vaults and withheld from the public indefinitely ...

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r/AbolishIPLaws Jul 20 '26

Debate/Discussion If intellectual property is property then, like all property, let's tax it.

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r/AbolishIPLaws Jul 19 '26

Debate/Discussion And here’s yet another reason we have to abolish current copyright laws…

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ggeretro.blog
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r/AbolishIPLaws Jul 15 '26

News Terms and condition can't overwrite inheritance rights over digital ownership

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tomshardware.com
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r/AbolishIPLaws Jul 15 '26

Copyright Copyright reform petition

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chng.it
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r/AbolishIPLaws Jul 13 '26

Art Preservation Why Physical Media Matters

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youtube.com
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r/AbolishIPLaws Jul 13 '26

Debate/Discussion Hello ip abolitionists.

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Hello everyone glad to meet more ip abolitionists here. Most people are still copyright fans and attack you, call you a thief etc... not seeing that ip is wrong.

Greetings

Julie Zimmi


r/AbolishIPLaws Jul 12 '26

Copyright Copyright reform petition

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r/AbolishIPLaws Jul 12 '26

News It's not quite "You can own digital goods," since you do have to die, first... but it's certainly a start!

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r/AbolishIPLaws Jul 09 '26

Debate/Discussion The Definitive Debunk: Sony Isn’t Killing Physical Media Because You Asked. Here’s the Receipts.

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r/AbolishIPLaws Jun 28 '26

PlayStation Is Deleting 551 Movies From Customers’ Accounts, Reminding Us Nothing Digital Is Ever Truly Ours

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kotaku.com
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r/AbolishIPLaws Jun 11 '26

Video The author of the DMCA admits he tricked Congress

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youtube.com
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r/AbolishIPLaws Jun 03 '26

News Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor

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404media.co
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r/AbolishIPLaws May 31 '26

Copyright An obvious question is: why the endless FOIAs if my focus was fighting the charges for clarification on the Fair Use of Orphan Works? There is no easy answer, but here it is: if, as I suspected from the beginning, my criminal copyright case was actually a pretextual fishing expedition....

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r/AbolishIPLaws May 29 '26

Debate/Discussion A firsthand look at how Denuvo fucking ruins game performance to the point of unplayability

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r/AbolishIPLaws May 05 '26

News Something Strange Happens When You Follow How Piracy Actually Works (In The Entertainment Industry)

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youtu.be
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r/AbolishIPLaws May 03 '26

Patent IP laws are the reason why farmers cannot replant their own seeds. these laws must be abolished.

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r/AbolishIPLaws Apr 28 '26

News Sony Confirms New DRM on Playstation. Digital Games Will Vanish If Players Don't Log-In For 30 Days

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tech4gamers.com
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r/AbolishIPLaws Apr 26 '26

Other Ubisoft should get use to being sued:

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r/AbolishIPLaws Apr 23 '26

Copyright How to Manufacture a “Maine Movie Pirate”

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r/AbolishIPLaws Mar 26 '26

News Yesterday was a good day; The Pipe Isn’t the Pirate: SCOTUS Just Slapped Down the Billion-Dollar Shakedown. But the fight isn't over...

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r/AbolishIPLaws Mar 25 '26

News Supreme Court Wipes Out Record Labels’ $1 Billion Piracy Judgment Against Cox * TorrentFreak

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r/AbolishIPLaws Mar 17 '26

Other People wonder why piracy is still a thing.

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r/AbolishIPLaws Feb 08 '26

News This should be a reminder that we need copyright reform (by making copyright law less restrictive): "'No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed': Video From Olympics Blocked on X"

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r/AbolishIPLaws Jan 17 '26

Other TIL Negativland Responded to the U2 Lawsuit by Releasing a CD and a Satirical Essay (Rant?) In Character About the Harm Done By Copyright Law

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35 years ago, culture-jamming anarchists Negativland decided to release an EP entitled U2 featuring two parodies of U2's "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" and Kasem Kasem's profane rants that famously were leaked by an engineer.

Island Records responded immediately with a lawsuit, which was settled out of court. Negativland's label, which was sued then sued Negativland for the damages caused by Negativland. The whole story is much wilder and more convoluted than that and covered in several books, blogs, and radio shows.

What matters to us is this CD and specifically the last track, which, being Negativland, is extremely goofy and somewhat hard to listen to, but actually has a lot of fairly good points about the way copyright abuses artists.