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The uneasy afterlife of our dazzling trash: Where do CDs go to die?

Posted by boredop
Tags: recycling, plastics, waste management, cd, formats, music, author.sandra e garcia, source.the new york times, paywall.soft
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/style/the-uneasy-afterlife-of-our-dazzling-trash.html

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Published
Nov 7 2020
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    spctrvl
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    Is this true? It seems like a pretty strange loophole for copyright law if so.

    “Once a CD is in a trash dump, it can be published to the public domain and people can legally take that, sell it and re-market it as well,” Mr. Beschen said. Industries were burning millions of units of CDs to avoid that, he added.

    Is this true? It seems like a pretty strange loophole for copyright law if so.

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    1. boredop
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      The public domain part is definitely wrong.

      The public domain part is definitely wrong.

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