October 12 is International Day against Digital Rights Management is a grassroots international observance of protest against digital rights technology, which it calls Defective by Design, due to embedded restrictions on copying and distributing media and is a reaction against World Intellectual Property Day.
The event is sponsored by the Free Software Foundation and endorsed by Creative Commons, the Document Foundation and Public Knowledge.
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