Why current copyright laws are harmful

Wired has a story about how current copyright law has made it illegal to view a PBS documentary film series from the late 1980s. Wired News: Putting Eyeballs on Copyright Law

The main motive of the Free Software Movement is to reverse the trend of locking up copyrights, explicitly making "Intellectual Property" available to everyone.

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