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you ever been milked big time?

I was the only almond at Silk for 5 years

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interlibrary loan is a beautiful name for a baby girl

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I went to the local aviary today and they had some really mean things to say about owls.

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Chilchuck Northern Boys amv

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This poll is for Jews who currently live in North America, and consider it their permanent residence (ie, not people here for a couple years on a work or student visa).

For the Jewish ancestor of yours who moved to North America most recently, what is their relationship to you?

If multiple ancestors arrived together, pick the one the shortest distance from you. For example, my mother came with my grandparents, so I'm going to pick "parent(s)."

I don't like see results buttons because they make the results weird, sorry non-Jews and non-North-Americans. You're welcome to reblog for sample size if you'd like.

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(preamble: i am not a lawyer, just a librarian/archivist who knows a medium amount about copyright. i'm only commenting on how it works in the US, and i don't know if OP is american)

you are right that many academic journals require authors to transfer copyright to the journal. that sucks! that doesn't seem to be true for springer nature- they make you sign an exclusive license to publish, which means they're the only ones who can distribute your work. that's bullshit, and it limits the most important part of copyright IMO, which is the ability to share your work as you wish.

in the US, authors have copyright to their theses/dissertations as soon as it is in fixed form*, and i don't know of any university that requires you to transfer copyright. i don't even know how that would work, honestly, since the "turn your dissertation into your first manuscript" strategy is so prevalent.

if your university has an institutional repository, you probably granted them a non-exclusive license to publish-- meaning you retain all your rights to it, but you also allow them to distribute it.

some good resources on copyright and academic publishing: UPenn's copyright guide, UNC's thesis and dissertation guide (section on copyright)

i am not a copyright/IP defender-- i never purchased a single text assigned to me in college/grad school and i think sci hub and libgen have done more to democratize knowledge production than basically anything in history, just wanted to clear up those specific points

*common misconception: you don't have to register copyright, you don't have to do anything actively to claim it: it is a property that arises automatically out of creating a work (aka, it is a legal fiction).

im sorry but i literally feel insane trying to explain how copyright and ip are bad for anyone who is not a large powerful corporation. i dont even own the rights to my own paper that i wrote because it's published in a springer journal. my own master's thesis that it's based on legally belongs to my university. these laws do not exist to protect small time artisans or writers or musicians and we have seen over and over and over again how corporations with the money to win legal battles are able to use them as a cudgel against creators of all stripes. like wtf are people on about lmao

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[google search history]

what to do with drunken sailor

how to deal with drunken sailor

how to deal with drunken sailor early morning

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Yohji Yamamoto: 'Many Buttons' Shirt (2010)

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I always am about to go to sleep at a beautiful 11pm and then something happens to me

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hey bro. is that your boobs in your shirt or is your penis huge and two of them

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zinetober day 12....

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The idea that only women can give birth is a misconception. Men can give birth too and that's a mrconception

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1930s “i’m the guy that” pinbacks

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Efeso, Turquía