Nobody explains copyright like Jennifer Jenkins, director of Duke's Center for the Public Domain, where she's creates the New Year's roundups of materials entering the public domain, which she started in the decades during which the public domain was frozen):

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/20/em-oh-you-ess-ee/#sexytimes

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/17/great-sousas-ghost/#theft

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