This just in
Duke University, of Durham, North Carolina, purchased the entirety of the public domain late last evening for a fee of 2.2 trillion dollars. Sources familiar with the negotiation report that Duke’s reclamation of the public domain is unprecedented. As a result of the purchase, Duke University is the sole rights-holder to a huge collection of materials, including the Bible, the works of Shakespeare and Dante, and Francis Scott Key’s The Star Spangled Banner.
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Professor Lawrence Lessig, a tireless advocate of the public domain and founder of the Creative Commons, announced early this morning that “from this moment on, the Creative Commons will be known as the Creative Copyright Foundation.” The Creative Copyright Foundation, Lessig stated, “exists to ensure that rights holders are benefited in a most creative fashion. Let’s say that you create a play about a fictional automobile race through the desert, and this play becomes successful and profit-making. Wouldn’t you rather be compensated in a creative way, such as a all-expenses paid automobile ride through the desert? This is the expressed goal of the Creative Copyright Foundation.” Lessig went on to provide a number of other “creative” examples, each one increasingly more odd than the last.
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Dumbest April Fool ever!
C’mon, people. At least TRY to make it believable enough for that double-take.