Beware The CopyLEFT Trolls

Image: Theresa Wysocki. Article by Mike Masnick. Techdirt – December 20, 2021.

For years we’ve covered the problems of copyright trolls — abusive schemes in which aggressive lawyers and schemers leverage copyright to shake down hundreds or thousands of people over what may be accidental or incidental infringement. In some cases, copyright trolls have gone even further, deliberately seeding their own works in order to find people to demand money from.

But, over the past few years there’s been something of a rise in a different kind of troll — the copyLEFT troll. Law professor Chip Stewart started calling out the issue of copyleft trolls a few months ago and has published an academic paper about the issue as well. […]

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