The main page at ibiblio.org sports this headline today. I’ve been amused by all the creative April 1 pranks on the ‘net. Did anyone else catch the NPR All Things Considered report on portable zip codes?
“Duke University, of Durham, North Carolina, purchased the entirety of the public domain late last evening for a fee of 2.2 trillion dollars. Sources familiar with the negotiation report that Duke’s reclamation of the public domain is unprecedented. As a result of the purchase, Duke University is the sole rights-holder to a huge collection of materials, including the Bible, the works of Shakespeare and Dante, and Francis Scott Key’s The Star Spangled Banner.”
It’s a Fair Tradeoff
Hey, as long as they lose in the Final Four, I could care less what they buy…