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Re:I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me by nerdponx on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @01:12PM (#19556392)
If it is your intellectual property, you get to decide how it is used.

Another poster here made an interesting point, that this wasn't true until the 90s. Deciding "how it is used" is different from (and broader than) deciding "who gets to distribute it".

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Re:I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me by Mindwipe on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @06:11PM (#19559076)
> Another poster here made an interesting point, that this wasn't true until the 90s.

This was always true. Most copyright traditions recognise Droit Moral, and the right for the author to determine the integrity and treatment of the work, and have for, in some cases, literally hundreds of years.

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Re:I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me by nerdponx on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @12:53PM (#19564949)
In the USA at the federal level I'm only aware of VARA which was passed in 1990.
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