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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

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Unique expertise on code too; code is different from photos, music, videos; some of the most valuable code on GitHub is licensed openly. Remediation not removal is often the goal—changes to the code rather than removing often resolves the problem, e.g. addressing violation of open source license by adding attribution etc.

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IPSC Breakout Session #2: mostly copyright and then marijuana innovation

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By defining purpose only as licensing image of Prince—use in a well-structured conventionalized market—the majority gets to be dismissive of the dissent; it doesn’t matter how much Warhol contributed b/c he created a substantially similar image which is now competing with her photograph. Other solutions: statutory license for sampling.