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Has your creativity been squished like a bug?

Cory asks:

Have you had your creativity and expression crushed by intellecutal property law? Did you have a business, a work of art, a blog entry or some other form of endeavor that was squashed by the threat or reality of a trademark, copyright or patent suit?

Public Knowledge, Creative Commons, and The Center for the Study of the Public Domain are putting together a public-education campaign to disseminate IP law horror-stories to help people understand what the expansion of copyright and related doctrines has cost us all. They want your stories for the collection.

We’d like to hear stories from artists, authors, musicians, filmmakers, computer programmers, entrepreneurs, librarians – or anyone with a personal story involving intellectual property law…

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2 Responses to “Has your creativity been squished like a bug?”

  1. Speaking of borrowing ideas, I took your “First Names Award” graphic and put it on my page. Is it OK if I just buy your book?

  2. I think this is a great idea and I can’t wait to hear the stories.

    I had no idea how much copyright law favoured publishers and middlemen, not creators, until I heard Lawrence Lessig give a lecture in Paris a couple of years ago.

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