+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title"><a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Welcome_out_of_prison__Mickey__hope_you_find_some_freedom_.html">Welcome out of prison, Mickey, hope you find some freedom!</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 1st January 2025</div>
+ <div class="body"><p align="center"><img src="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2024-01-01-mikke-verk-i-det-fri.jpeg"/></p>
+
+<p>Today, the animation figure Mickey Mouse finally was released from
+the corporate copyright prison, as the 1928 movie
+<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steamboat_Willie">Steamboat
+Willie</a> entered the public domain in USA. Sadly the figure is
+still on probation, thanks to trademark laws and a the Disney
+corporations powerful pack of lawyers, as described in the 2017 article
+in <a href="https://priceonomics.com/how-mickey-mouse-evades-the-public-domain/">"How
+Mickey Mouse Evades the Public Domain"</a> from Priceonomics. On the
+positive side, the primary driver for repeated extentions of the
+duration of copyright has been Disney thanks to Mickey Mouse and the
+2028 movie, and as it now in the public domain I hope it will cause
+less urge to extend the already unreasonable long copyright
+duration.</p>
+
+<p>The first book I published, the 2004 book <a
+href="https://free-culture.cc/">"Free Culture" by Lawrence Lessig</a>,
+<a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/publisher/#frikultur">published
+2015 in English, French and Norwegian Bokmål</a>, touch on the story
+of Disney pushed for extending the copyright duration in USA. It is a
+great book explaining problems with the current copyright regime and
+why we need Creative Commons movement, and I strongly recommend
+everyone to read it.</p>
+
+<p>This movie (with
+<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019422/">IMDB ID tt0019422</a>)
+is now available from the Internet Archive. Two copies have been
+uploaded so far, one uploaded
+<a href="https://archive.org/details/SteamboatWillie">2015-11-04</a>
+(<a href="https://archive.org/download/SteamboatWillie/SteamboatWillie_archive.torrent">torrent</a>)
+and the other
+<a href="https://archive.org/details/steamboat-willie-mickey">2023-01-01</a>
+(<a href="https://archive.org/download/steamboat-willie-mickey/steamboat-willie-mickey_archive.torrent">torrent</a>).
+I am very happy to see
+<a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Legal_to_share_more_than_16_000_movies_listed_on_IMDB_.html">the
+number of public domain movies</a> increasing. I look forward to
+when those are the majority. Perhaps it will reduce the urge of the
+copyright industry to control its customers.</p>
+
+<p>A more
+<a href="https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2024/">comprehensive
+list of works entering the public domain in 2024</a> is available from
+the Public Domain Review.</p>
+
+<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
+</div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/verkidetfri">verkidetfri</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
<div class="entry">
<div class="title"><a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/VLC_bittorrent_plugin_still_going_strong__new_upload_2_14_4.html">VLC bittorrent plugin still going strong, new upload 2.14-4</a></div>
<div class="date">31st December 2023</div>
</div>
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- <div class="entry">
- <div class="title"><a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/wmbusmeters__parse_data_from_your_utility_meter___nice_free_software.html">wmbusmeters, parse data from your utility meter - nice free software</a></div>
- <div class="date">19th May 2023</div>
- <div class="body"><p>There is a European standard for reading utility meters like water,
-gas, electricity or heat distribution meters. The
-<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter-Bus">Meter-Bus standard
-(EN 13757-2, EN 13757-3 and EN 13757–4)</a> provide a cross vendor way
-to talk to and collect meter data. I ran into this standard when I
-wanted to monitor some heat distribution meters, and managed to find
-free software that could do the job. The meters in question broadcast
-encrypted messages with meter information via radio, and the hardest
-part was to track down the encryption keys from the vendor. With this
-in place I could set up a MQTT gateway to submit the meter data for
-graphing.</p>
-
-<p>The free software systems in question,
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/rtl-wmbus">rtl-wmbus</a> to
-read the messages from a software defined radio, and
-<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/wmbusmeters">wmbusmeters</a> to
-decrypt and decode the content of the messages, is working very well
-and allowe me to get frequent updates from my meters. I got in touch
-with upstream last year to see if there was any interest in publishing
-the packages via Debian. I was very happy to learn that Fredrik
-Öhrström volunteered to maintain the packages, and I have since
-assisted him in getting Debian package build rules in place as well as
-sponsoring the packages into the Debian archive. Sadly we completed
-it too late for them to become part of the next stable Debian release
-(Bookworm). The wmbusmeters package just cleared the NEW queue. It
-will need some work to fix a built problem, but I expect Fredrik will
-find a solution soon.</p>
-
-<p>If you got a infrastructure meter supporting the Meter Bus
-standard, I strongly recommend having a look at these nice
-packages.</p>
-
-<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
-activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
-<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
-</div>
- <div class="tags">
-
-
- Tags: <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nice free software">nice free software</a>.
-
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