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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by whywhywhywhy on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:38AM (#23246163)
License holders honestly can't be trusted with archiving or distributing their own works.

So much music and movies is available in inferior or compromised formats if you go through the versions available on the market today from the license owners.

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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by coldpie on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @08:50AM (#23246246)
The effectively-infinite copyright length that was introduced in the 1970s (yes, that recent!) definitely belongs in the same discussion as the burning of Alexandria. We haven't even begun to realize how much culture we've sacrificed at the foot of Disney and other copyright maximalists.
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Re:Authorities say Hobby Lobby's Gilgamesh tablet is stolen,... by RandomBacon on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @09:14PM (#23253897)
Annecdote: My dad collects plastic model kits. A major model kit company asked him if he could scan the lid of one of their products they made decades ago, so that they could have the artwork to re-release the same model.

I think LEGO Group is good about this; they have a vault containing a copy of every product they ever made.

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