Naked Batman! 5 facts we'd have to live with if Batman where public domain...

This happened. The maximum duration of a copyright used to be 56 years.  As we've discussed, this means that everything made before 58 should have reasonably lapsed into the public domain. In Batman's case this means most of his most well known characters and concepts would be available...

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Talking Points: The Starving Artist

You should have had your ears to the ground, buddy. I get into plenty of comments sections discussing the topic of copyright.  You might be surprised, that some arguments start to form a pattern, and then I feel that, instead of replying to each and every one of those, I´d rather do a column...

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Talking points: Return the Stolen

YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR. I mean, I assume. For all I know you might be a car thief of some sort. I wouldn't have any way of knowing, and frankly if the car does not belong to me and mine, I can't muster up any significant rage. But we all remember that campaign, right? Where stealing  a handbag...

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Joe vs the Nintendo

It seems weird to say, but we're still adjusting to the existence of the World Wide Web. Some of you where born to a world where connecting with everyone else via the internet is normal, but many, many more weren't, including the one who writes this piece. Even those working on the technology business...

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