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People sell all kinds of things that are based on things in the public domain, because people are paying for someone else to go through the steps of creating it. Creating new works based on something in the public domain, like a 3D model of a mouse that is in the public domain, is a new work that can be copyrighted.

This person could sell the 3D files they created because creating the 3D files is a new creation. Someone else could also create the exact same 3D file from scratch and this person could not claim copyright because the subject of the 3D file is in the public domain.

Anyone can copy the Disney film version outright because the film is in the public domain.

No, you can still sell things you made based on things in the public domain. Anyone can make things in the public domain and sell them. They just can’t be stopped from selling or giving away for free because there are no exclusive rights to distribution.

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Why do that when we already have digital media players like iPods and phones that meet the criteria?

I love that this is on YouTube, which us going full force in enremovedtifying itself right now.

Stock markets.

Microsoft’s entire business success was taking someone else’s work, building on it, then once they found any level of success they used anti-competitive business practices to become a mega corp and stay that way. The founder is still alive and profiting from the company.

There is no point in our lifetimes when MS won’t deserve hate for everything they have done, even if there is a begrudging acceptance that they have made changes that make them appear more welcoming to competition.

Probably the same one that labels Romeo and Juliet a romance instead of a tragedy.

In general unplugging anything in a car means that thing stops working, and unplugging parts of the radio makes the radio stop working. Beyond that it would depend on the car maker as whether it would just make some features stop working or a whole system requires it to be there to save data and settings.

As someone who knows how to take apart and put back together both computers a day cars, your post is 100% accurate in explaining why people might not want to spend the time to learn something they have no interest in and do rarely.

Websites are indistinguishable from each other except for their content.

Federated instances can be like web service providers, only limiting malicious content from users. The magazines/communities are like web sites on a particular host, such as WordPress. They control the content within their scope.

What you are suggesting is that instances should be like AOL, curating the experience. Which is fine if some of them want to do that, but it shouldn’t be the standard.

I do that constantly by misclicking.