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Houghton is in the process of digitizing a collection of 19th century photographic portraits of African Americans. More than 100 are online so far. hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu…
in reply to John Overholt

@jessamyn I’ve never understood how you can claim rights in a mechanical copy. I know that archives do, but I can’t imagine that it would survive a legal challenge. That said, yeah for HL’s sensible approach!
in reply to karen coyle

@kcoyle @jessamyn You can't, in the US, though it doesn't stop people from claiming copyright on verbatim reproductions of public domain work.

In the UK it's a little muddier, but still just as gross.

Only creative work attracts a new copyright. Making a faithful duplication that by design does as little interpretation as possible does not give rise to a new copyright.




SPÖ-Spitzenkandidat zeichnet mit Ausdrücken und Feuerwehrauto ein fragwürdiges Sittenbild exxpress.at/politik/spoe-spitz… Ein Feuerwehrauto, ein SPÖ-Spitzenkandidat und fragwürdige Ausdrücke: Matthias Ressl, Bürgermeister-Kandidat in Niederösterreich, gerät nach einer feucht-fröhlichen Fahrt zu einer Feier in Erklärungsnot. Zwei Handyvideos dokumentieren die umstrittene Privatfahrt. #news #press


Russia Flooded With Cocaine Since Start of War in Ukraine: Report. byteseu.com/673772/ #Ukraine #UkrainianConflict #UkrainianConflict

in reply to Cory Doctorow

@pluralistic The supply list seems pretty simple:
- Tyvek or other coverall/jumpsuit with hood
- 4 short lengths rope or heavy twine
- suitable "faceplate," plus duct tape or other means of fixing
- garbage, lots of
- embellishments as desired

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My comment on Dutton's proposal to revive the tax-deductible business lunch theguardian.com/commentisfree/…



MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) relieved the BRP Gabriela Silang with the 44-meter multi-role and response vessel, BRP Suluan, to continue monitoring the Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) vessel 3304 illegally operating off the coast of Zambales.

Commodore Jay Tarriela, PCG spokesman for the West Philippine Sea, said the vessel was spotted at a distance of 60 nautical miles to 70 nautical miles.

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I am going to re-open registrations on this pod! But, there is a catch... Only new users can be located in North America... this is an attempt to reduce the number of bot created accounts. I have added several new blocks into the #nginx config file to do this. If you as a regular already existing user runs into any issues, PLEASE CONTACT ME!!! You may either message me here at #nota404mn or please message me at my Matrix account (@daniel@dou.bet).

#podmin #diaspora


in reply to N. E. Felibata 👽

Of course they can! But last two years, most bot traffic came from Russia. I am stepping into allowing more countries, and a VPN/proxy would bypass my block anyway...


Trump is absolutely going to make ByteDance sell TikTok or shut down again.

Here he is talking about it during today’s big data center announcement, with Larry Ellison, Sam Altman, and Masa Son standing in the room with him.

Extreme First Amendment issues with having the government own a social platform aside, it’s striking how he keeps talking about “permits” even though nothing in the TikTok bill has anything to do with permits. Once a real-estate guy, always a real-estate guy, I suppose.

www.tiktok.com/@nbcnews/video/7462514854767775019

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Trump announces government staff changes byteseu.com/673764/ #Japan #NHK #NHKNews #NHKWorldNews


We've got a number of open positions to work with a dynamite global team of Internet advocates and technologists here at @internetsociety and @isoc_foundation@mastodon.social ! 1/4

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Remember how Zuck said you had nothing to fear if you didn't do anything wrong?

Resisting is wrong to them. There is much to fear.

Use secure communications, get off anything owned by the front row of the inauguration.

Carrier pigeons are more secure.

in reply to Chu 朱

"get off anything owned by the front row of the inauguration" sounds like an excellent general principle at this point.