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Why do I like to say "the public's rights in copyright" instead of just "fair use"? It's partly because some people forget that the public has rights in copyright, or treat those rights as an afterthought. For example, a Senator writes
I understand your concerns about ensuring that. This issue is very controversial because Congress must protect intellectual property rights while still allowing ordinary Internet users to have access to public domain content.
Yikes!
Fortunately, we are gaining protection for our digital rights every day, now that Don Marti has a blog.
Raymon Lull, who was really into anagrams, wrote a work called the Ars Magna. (I wrote about Lull back in the year 2000.) Remarkably, "Ars Magna" is an anagram of "anagrams"!
Check out what the People's Daily says about Taiwan. Wow.
