Phil Stevens :tinoflag: on Nostr: The ghost of Greg Ham just entered the chat. If Men at Work could get litigated into ...
The ghost of Greg Ham just entered the chat. If Men at Work could get litigated into copyright hell for quoting bits of a melody (and reconfiguring the order of the fragments in doing so), then what has changed to make it OK when billionaires are doing it?
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