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What about works that are already in the Public Domain but would not have qualified under the new laws? Will they revert back to the copyright holder?


It appears that NZ and Malaysia negotiated exceptions that will delay the new laws, so there will be no new public domain material for many years, but old material will not be affected. It also appears that Canada failed to negotiate such an exception, so public domain material from the past 20 years would revert.

http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2015/10/canada-caves-on-copyright...

http://beehive.govt.nz/sites/all/files/TPP-Q&A-Oct-2015.pdf


response to zero-rated:

> Quick clarification: when you say "public domain material from the past 20 years would revert" is that only work that originated in Canada, or for everything?

Ian Fleming has been used as an example, so probably everything. Nothing is certain until the Canadian text is public.


Thank you.

Quick clarification: when you say "public domain material from the past 20 years would revert" is that only work that originated in Canada, or for everything?


The New Atlantis is one to keep an eye on. The articles are deeper and more insightful than most. It makes the Economist look downright shallow in comparison.


I owned a dog walking company for a few years, and was never asked that question once. I think the author was just trying to be funny.


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Microsoft has changed in what way? It no longer spies on its users and reports them to the CIA?


If you don't mind, please drop a link to your company blog. It's good to see examples.


I was a hardcore Red hat/Fedora user for years (the main reason being I prefer rpm package system over deb) but Linux Mint has won me over.

With Mint, everything works straight out of the box - except for dual monitors, which was a cinch to set up. Great distro.


I moved from Mint XFCE to Xubuntu and in the 15.04 release everything works out the box as well, even the monitor setup with the open source radeon drivers via xfce4-display-settings -m is one of the best I've used for 3 screens with one rotated.

Absolutely painless all around and XFCE 4.12 is a nice little upgrade just gentle improvement all around but functionally the same.


What do you like better about rpm vs deb?


Initially, I thought the Kindle Unlimited selection was lacking, but most searches turn up at least one or two useful books I'd have impulsively purchased anyway. Definitely worth it for me.


Hasn't most free software been doing this all along? I assumed they already were.


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