The long road to Marrakesh: 40 years of copyright obstruction to human rights and social justice

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The long road to Marrakesh: 40 years of copyright obstruction to human rights and social justice

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schnurrito to Libre Culture@lemmy.ca · 11 days ago

One of the little-known but extremely telling episodes in the history of modern copyright, discussed in Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available), concerns the Marrakesh Treaty. A post on the Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) site from 2017 has a good summary of what the treaty is about, and why it is important: It …

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